The 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have just wrapped up and congratulations to all the winners!

Atua: Māori Gods and Legends, by Gavin Bishop (Puffin, Penguin Random House) cleaned up, winning the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award and $7,500; the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction and $7,500; and the Russell Clark Award for Illustration and $7,500.

I Waho, i te Moana, written by Yvonne Morrison, translated by Pānia Papa and illustrated by Jenny Cooper (Scholastic New Zealand), won the Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for te reo Māori and $7,500.

Lion Guards the Cake by Ruth Paul (Scholastic New Zealand) was the winner of the Picture Book Award and $7,500.

The Memory Thief, by Leonie Agnew (Penguin Random House NZ) won the Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Junior Fiction Award and $7,500.

And Learning to Love Blue by Saradha Koirala (Record Press) took the Young Adult Fiction Award and $7,500.

Find out more about these amazing works, and other winners, including the NZSA Best First Book Award plus $2,500, which goes to Sonya Wilson for her Fiordland eco-adventure Spark Hunter – Link HERE!

Big congratulations to all winners and finalists!