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The finalists of the 2018 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced.

The awards celebrate the best books for young readers and titles are judged in six main categories. Picture Book, Junior Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Non-Fiction, Illustration and te reo Māori. The winners of those categories will all compete to be named the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year. The judges will also present a Best First Book award to a previously unpublished author or illustrator from a shortlist of five titles.

To celebrate the finalists in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults we’re giving away a bumper prize pack containing all the finalist titles to one lucky winner. That’s 28 brand spanking new books to add to your shelf!

To enter simply purchase one of the finalist titles and you’re automatically in the draw to win.

The prize pack includes a copy of each of the finalists and is worth over $600!

Books included in the prize are:

• Granny McFlitter, the Champion Knitter
• I Am Jellyfish
• That's Not the Monster We Ordered
• The Gift Horse
• The Longest Breakfast
• How Not to Stop a Kidnap Plot
• How to Bee
• Lyla: Through My Eyes – Natural Disaster Zones
• My New Zealand Story: Dawn Raid
• The Thunderbolt Pony
• Because Everything is Right but Everything is Wrong
• Catch Me When You Fall
• In the Dark Spaces
• Sticking with Pigs
• The Traitor and the Thief
• Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story
• Explore! Aotearoa
• New Zealand’s Great White Sharks
• Sky High: Jean Batten’s Incredible Flying Adventures
• The New Zealand Wars
• Abel Tasman: Mapping the Southern Lands
• Bobby, the Littlest War Hero
• Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts
• Hineahuone
• Te Tamaiti me te Aihe
• Tu Meke Tūī!
• Into the White
• Pieces of You

A winner for the prize pack will be drawn on the 9th August and contacted via email.

The winners of the 2018 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults will be announced at a ceremony in the atmospheric Te Marae at Te Papa in Wellington on the evening of Wednesday 8 August.

Good luck and happy reading!

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UPDATE The full list of winners for the 2018 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are:

Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award
Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story, Written and illustrated by Gavin Bishop

Picture Book Award
I Am Jellyfish, Written and illustrated by Ruth Paul

Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction
How to Bee, by Bren MacDibble

Copyright Licencing Award for Young Adult Fiction
In the Dark Spaces, by Cally Black

Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction
Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story, Written and illustrated by Gavin Bishop

Russell Clark Award for Illustration
Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts Written and illustrated by Craig Philips

Best First Book Award
My New Zealand Story: Dawn Raid, by Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith

Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for the best book in te reo Māori
Tu Meke Tūī!, by Malcolm Clarke, translated Evelyn Tobin, illustrated by FLOX (aka Hayley King)

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