Congratulations to the winners!
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)