Hound the Detective, Kimberly Andrews (Penguin Random House NZ)
Kōwhai and the Giants, Kate Parker (Mary Egan Publishing)
The Hug Blanket, Chris Gurney, illustrated by Lael Chisholm (Scholastic New Zealand)
This Is Where I Stand, Philippa Werry, illustrated by Kieran Rynhart (Scholastic New Zealand)
The books vying for the Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Junior Fiction Award presented the judges with eclectic plot lines and endearing characters and they struggled to narrow down to a shortlist from the well-crafted titles.
Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Junior Fiction Award Finalists
Across the Risen Sea, Bren MacDibble (Allen & Unwin)
Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea, T K Roxborogh, illustrated by Phoebe Morris (Huia Publishers)
Press Release – NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults From a field of 166 entries, the 28 finalists in the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are announced today. Across six main categories, these books offer the nations young readers a tasty smorgasbord of titles, packed with …
From a field of 166 entries, the 28 finalists in the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are announced today. Across six main categories, these books offer the nation’s young readers a tasty smorgasbord of titles, packed with meaty themes and addictive plot lines.
“The diversity of ideas in this year’s entries really stood out,” says convenor of judges Alan Dingley. “It’s clear that our authors truly credit kids and young people with having the emotional intelligence to deal with complex themes, issues and feelings.”
From a field of 166 entries, the 28 finalists in the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are announced today. Across six main categories, these books offer the nation’s young readers a tasty smorgasbord of titles, packed with .
When we came to visit, the two bonded over Jock Hobbs and David Kirk. Although I’m not sure how interested Ichiro really was in the national game. His real heroes weren’t All Blacks but epidemiologists like Daniel Gajdusek and Richard Doll (the man who proved that cigarettes cause lung cancer). Ichiro was the ultimate nerd. He rented an extra room in our flat to store his alphabetically arranged scientific papers, manga and novels. As our rotting five-bedroom bungalow shook to The Cure and Prince, he tacked Bach and Hemingway posters to the walls. After late-night ward rounds at Wellington Hospital, he pored over extramural university papers on statistics, economics and the philosophy of aesthetics. His idea of relaxation was to smoke a pipe and listen to John Coltrane LPs.