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2011 NZ Post Book Awards Results

Book Of The Year

The Winner:

The Moon And Farmer McPhee

Margaret Mahy and David Elliot

Random House NZ

Picture Book

The Winner:

The Moon And Farmer McPhee

Margaret Mahy and David Elliot

Random House NZ

Young Adult

The Winner:

Fierce September

Fleur Beale

Random House NZ

(Hooray for our Fleur!!)

Junior Fiction

The Winner:

Finnigan and the Pirates

Sherryl Jordan

Scholastic NZ

Non-Fiction

The Winner:

Zero Hour: The Anzacs On The Western Front

by Leon Davis

Text Publishing Company 

(Yay Wellington!)

Best First Book

The Winner:

Hollie Chips

Anna Gowan

Scholastic NZ

Children’s Choice Awards

Overall Winner:

Baa Baa Smart Sheep

Mark Sommerset Rowan Sommerset

Dreamboat Books

Children's Choice Category Winners

Picture book:

Baa Baa Smart Sheep

Mark Sommerset Rowan Sommerset

Dreamboat Books

Junior Fiction:
Hollie Chips

Anna Gowan

Scholastic NZ

Non-Fiction:
Who’s Cooking Tonight?

Claire Gourley and Glenda Gourley

Penguin Group NZ

Young Adult:
Smiling Jack

Ken Catran

HarperCollins Publishers

Congratulations to all finalists and winners!!!

Children's Book Awards tonight

No waiting till tomorrow's morning news. As we did last year, we're hoping to bring you live-ish updates on who's won what at the NZ Post Children's Book Awards tonight. (Texted to us by our people in Auckland!)

To get the scoop this evening, keep an eye on this blog.  Good luck to all our wonderful Wellington finalists!

A message from the Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection

The Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection committee would like to inform WCBA members that our AGM will be held on Wednesday 27 April 2011 at 6pm (drinks and nibbles from 5.30pm.

The meeting will be held in Poutama Ruma (The Training Room), Ground Floor, Archives NZ, 10 Mulgrave Street, Wellington, and will be followed by rabbity readings by committee members.

All welcome!

Visit our website http://www.dnwfriends.nzl.org/

Congratulations!

We'd like to extend congratulations to the following WCBA members for recent successes:

Tom Fitzgibbon Award
Congratulations to winner Kathy Taylor

Joy Cowley Award
Congratulations to shortlistees Sabrina Malcolm and Juliette McIver

Storylines Notable Books
Congratulations to Pippa Werry, Jack Lasenby, Leon Davidson, James Crampton/Marianna Terezow, Fleur Beale, Mandy Hager  and Juliette McIver.

April Club Night