New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults

These awards celebrate the best from New Zealand’s children’s authors and illustrators. Each year awards for best Picture Book, Junior Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Non-Fiction, Illustration and te reo Māori are presented. Additionally, the judges will award a Best First Book prize to a previously unpublished author or illustrator. The overall prize for New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults is the prestigious Margaret Mahy Book of the Year award.