The New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2013 winners

Here are the winners that relate to our Cashmere High Library ...

Best Junior Fiction

My Brother's War 
by David Hill
Penguin Group NZ
ISBN 9780143307174 (paperback)
ISBN 9781742532653 (e-book)

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Best First BookReach
by Hugh Brown
HarperCollins
ISBN 9781869509569

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Best Young Adult Fiction and New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book of the Year

Into the River*
by Ted Dawe
Mangakino University Press
ISBN 9780473205089

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Best Non-Fiction100 Amazing Tales from Aotearoa
by Simon Morton & Riria Hotere
Te Papa Press
ISBN 9781877385797

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Ted Dawe’s book Into the River won the New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book of the Year and was also the winner of the Young Adult Fiction category.  This engaging coming of age novel follows its main protagonist from his childhood in small town rural New Zealand to an elite Auckland boarding school where he must forge his own way – including battling with his cultural identity.

“Into the River was the book that stood out for us,” says Chief Judge and author Bernard Beckett.

“Traditionally, books aimed at the top end of the young adult market [ages 15+] have not been a strength of ours here in New Zealand, with most books aimed nearer the junior fiction boundary. We were delighted to see a book that both engaged and respected older readers, with material as subtle as it is honest and provocative.

“We congratulate Ted for his superb book, as well as the other winners and finalists who have shown the calibre of children’s books in New Zealand to be well above par.

“It was great to see new talent emerging to line up alongside more established authors and illustrators,” Bernard Beckett said. 

Source: http://booksellers.co.nz

Podcast: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2560385/playing-favourites-with-ted-dawe