2012 Australian Indie Awards Shortlists"
Children's Shortlists
Fllow the link for the other shortlists...
New Zealand Book Award Finalists Announced
LIANZA (The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) received over 100 nominations for their 2011 Children's Book Awards with the prestigious LIANZA Esther Glen award receiving the highest number of submissions by publishers.
The LIANZA Esther Glen Medal, New Zealand's longest running book prize, is awarded for a distinguished work of fiction for children.
The LIANZA awards, which are given by Librarians for outstanding children's literature are for excellence in junior fiction, young adult fiction, illustration, non-fiction and te reo Maori.
The full list of the LIANZA Children's Book Award 2011 Finalists:
LIANZA Esther Glen Award (Junior Fiction)
The Haystack by Jack Lasenby, (HarperCollins Publishers (NZ) Ltd)
Dreams of Warriors by Susan Brocker (HarperCollins Publishers (NZ) Ltd)
Sheep on the Fourth Floor by Leonie Thorpe (HarperCollins Publishers (NZ) Ltd)
Boy Zero Wannabe Hero by Peter Millet (Faber & Faber)
Shadow of the Boyd by Diana Menefy (HarperCollins Publishers (NZ) Ltd)
LIANZA Young Adult Award (Fiction)
Smiling Jack by Ken Catran (HarperCollins Publishers (NZ) Ltd)
Fierce September by Fleur Beale (Random House New Zealand)
Ebony Hill by Anna Mackenzie (Longacre Press)
Blood Lines by TK Roxborogh (Penguin NZ)
Lethal Deliveries by Ken Benn (Penguin NZ)
The Limping Man by Maurice Gee (Puffin)
LIANZA Russell Clark Award (Illustration)
The Moon and Farmer McPhee by Margaret Mahy and David Elliot (Random House New Zealand)
Quaky Cat by Diana Noonan and Gavin Bishop (Scholastic)
Hill and Hole by Kyle Mewburn and Vasanti Unka (Puffin)
The Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate by Joy Cowley and Sarah Davis (Gecko Press)
A Dog Like That! by Janene Cooper and Evie Kemp (Duck Creek Press)
LIANZA Elsie Locke (Non Fiction)
Weird Wabbit & Friends/ Star Boy and Friends Series by Vasanti Unka (Penguin NZ)
The Life Cycle of the Pukeko by Betty Brownlie (Scholastic)
Sensational Survivors by Sandra Morris (Walker Books Australia)
The Kiwi Fossil Hunters Handbook by James Campton and Marianna Terezow (Random House New Zealand)
The Tui NZ Kids Garden by Diana Noonan and Keith Olsen (Penguin NZ)
Te Kura Pounamu (te reo Maori)
Mahiara by Sally Sutton, Illustrated by Brian Lovelock, Translated by Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira (Walker Books Australia)
Ngarimu: Te Tohu Toa by Andrew Burdan (Huia Publishers)
Rāwiri, Matiu, He Kura Te Tangata, He Ora Kai Te Kupu Series by Peti Nohotima (He Kupenga Hao i te Reo)
Manu Haututū by June Peka. Illustrated by Jo Thapa. Translated by Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira (Scholastic)
Kapa, Te Niu Series by Hana Pōmare and Heni Jacob (HANA Limited/ Te Tāuhuhu o te Mātauranga - Ministry of Education)
Te Mata o Tuna, a Hina rāua ko Mo'o Kuna by Hana Pōmare, Ellie-May Logan and Hēni Jacob (HANA Limited/ Te Tāuhuhu o te Mātauranga - Ministry of Education)
The 2011 Award Ceremony will take place in Wellington on Monday August 8th at Caffe L'affare, College Street.
Winners 2011 New Zealan Children's Book Awards
The winners of the 2011 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards were announced at an Awards Ceremony in Auckland on Wednesday evening, 18 May 2011.
Margaret Mahy and illustrator, David Elliot, have won the country's most prestigious prize for children's literature, The New Zealand Post Children's Book of the Year Award for their picture book, The Moon & Farmer McPhee.
The full list of winners...
Picture Book Category Award Winner and New Zealand Post Book of the Year
The Moon & Farmer McPhee
Margaret Mahy & David Elliot
Random House New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-86979-406-4 hb RRP $36.99
Target age 4+
Non-fiction Category Award Winner
Zero Hour: The Anzacs on the Western Front
Leon Davidson
Text Publishing Company
ISBN 978-1-92165-607-1 pb RRP $25.00
Target age 13+
Junior Fiction Category Award Winner
Finnigan & the Pirates
Sherryl Jordan
Scholastic New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-86943-927-9 pb RRP $19.50
Target age 7+
Young Adult Fiction Category Award Winner
Fierce September
Fleur Beale
Random House New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-86979-328-9 pb RRP $19.99
Target age 12+
Best First Book Award
Hollie Chips
Anna Gowan
Scholastic New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-86943-931-6 pb RRP $18.50
Target age 8+
Children's Choice Award Winner - Overall winner and Children's Choice
Baa Baa Smart Sheep
Mark Sommerset & Rowan Sommerset
Dreamboat Books
ISBN 978-0-9864668-1-6 hb RRP $29.99
Target age 3+
Children's Choice Award Non-fiction Category
Who's Cooking Tonight?
Claire Gourley & Glenda Gourley
Penguin Group (NZ)
ISBN 978-0-14320-542-5 pb RRP $36.00
Target age 12+
Children's Choice Award Junior Fiction Category
Hollie Chips
Anna Gowan
Scholastic New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-86943-931-6 pb RRP $18.50
Target age 8+
Children's Choice Award Young Adult Category
Smiling Jack
Ken Catran
HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 978-1-86950-812-8 pb RRP $23.50
Target age 12+
011 NEW SOUTH WALES PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD WINNERS
these include
Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature ($30,000)
Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature ($30,000)
Sophie Masson, My Australian Story: The Hunt for Ned Kelly
Special Award ($20,000)
Libby Gleeson
Five separate shortlists
Nosy Crow has just announced that it has appointed Allen & Unwin as its representative for printed books in Australia and New Zealand effective immediately.
Nosy Crow's first books will be published in the UK in January 2011, and in May in Australia and New Zealand. Allen & Unwin has been voted Australian Publisher of the Year nine times, is Australia's leading independent publisher, and represents and distributes important UK lists including Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber and Profile.The deal was negotiated in Sydney this month.
Kate Wilson, MD of Nosy Crow, says:
"We've taken our time to investigate our options carefully. Though I hadn't had any experience of working with Allen & Unwin before, their excellent reputation preceded them, and I feel very proud that they chose to include Nosy Crow in their portfolio of clients. In all these things - and particularly for Nosy Crow given our scale and culture - a sense of affinity is important: I felt confident that everyone I met at Allen & Unwin understood Nosy Crow and our goals. And the fact that they're based in Crows Nest in Sydney is an additional happy omen!"
Robert Gorman, CEO of Allen & Unwin, says:
"At Allen & Unwin we love partnering with clever independent publishers. That is why we are delighted to be representing Nosy Crow in Australia and New Zealand. We greatly look forward to helping them grow their business in the ANZ market."
Liz Bray, Children's Book Director of Allen & Unwin, says:
"We've been following Nosy Crow's activities with great interest since they announced their establishment in the UK earlier this year and admired the energy, savvy and passion of their team as well as the books they're producing. We're thrilled to have the opportunity to work with them in Australia and New Zealand on books from much-loved creators like Axel Scheffler as well as new stars including S.C. Ransom. Nosy Crow's innovative, child-focused books have great potential in our markets and will be a fantastic complement to our own publishing and the wonderful children's lists we distribute."
reviewed by Joy Lawn in The Australian...
2010 Prime Minister's Literary Awards
No, nothing to do with David Cameron. These are Australian awards.
And more good news for Branford Boase winner, Lucy Christopher, who is shortlisted in the Young Adult section....
New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards
The winners of the 2010 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards were announced at an Awards Ceremony in Auckland a week ago..
Patricia Wrightson - Guardian Obit.
Forgot to blog Julia Eccleshare's obituary of Patricia Wrightson last week. This was published Monday 10th May.
Blame the UK election distraction ;)
Australian Prime Minister writes a children's book...
SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had taken time out of his busy schedule to pen a children's book featuring his family pets, a spokeswoman said yesterday.Rudd - who is so famed for his jet-setting work ethic that he has been nicknamed "Kevin 707" by the local press - wrote the book with Australian children's television star Rhys Muldoon.
Titled Jasper and Abby and the Great Australia Day Kerfuffle, the book follows Rudd's pet cat and dog on an adventure through the grounds of The Lodge, his family's official residence in Canberra....
The 2009 Golden Inky Winner is...
WHERE THE STREETS HAD A NAME, by Randa Abdel-Fattah
The winner of the 2009 Silver Inky is...
THE HUNGER GAMES, BY SUZANNE COLLINS
Writer Unboxed Blog - Sophie Masson on 'A Touch of Magic'
If you are creating a fantasy novel or one with a supernatural theme--say with a character who has a psychic gift--one of the crucial things you need to get right is the depiction of that magical or supernatural power. And that means you need to think clearly about just what it might be like to have such a power, and to understand the different ways in which it manifests itself. In this post, I'd like to pass on a few notions that I've worked from over the course of many years of writing such novels....
Long highly-recommended feature about author Paul Jennings, occasioned by AUstralian publication of a new Young Adult novel by him called The Nest - not yet released in the UK.
Some picture books arrive like missives from another world; small miracles of perfection that embolden a child to persist in mining the tunnels of their imagination, to find, for themselves, this better place. Peter Pavey's perfectly formed One Dragon's Dream (Walker Books, $15.95) is such a book. First published 30 years ago and a subsequent winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year, it has languished out of print since 1988, until the good fairies at Walker Books included it in this year's additions to their classic Australian and New Zealand picture book collection... MEG SORENSON
