The winners for the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced.

The winners of the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults were announced in a virtual presentation on Wednesday 12 August.

Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award 

Mophead, Selina Tusitala Marsh (Auckland University Press)

Picture Book Award 

Abigail and the Birth of the Sun - Matthew Cunningham, illustrated by Sarah Wilkins (Penguin Random House)

Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction 

Lizard's Tale, Weng Wai Chan (Text Publishing)

Young Adult Fiction Award 

Aspiring, Damien Wilkins (Annual Ink/Massey University Press)

Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction 

Mophead, Selina Tusitala Marsh (Auckland University Press)

Russell Clark Award for Illustration 

The Adventures of Tupaia, Courtney Sina Meredith, illustrated by Mat Tait (Allen & Unwin, in partnership with Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum)

Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for te reo Māori

Tio Tiamu, Kurahau, illustrated by Laya Mutton-Rogers (Huia Publishers)

Best First Book Award 

Michael Petherick for #Tumeke! (Annual Ink/Massey University Press)