In addition to New zealand book month which I mentioned a wee while ago the finalists for this years New Zealand Post Children's book awards have been announced. You can go to http://www.booksellers.co.nz/awards/new-zealand-post-childrens-book-awards if you're interested in learning more about the awards but I'm more interested in the finalists themselves;
Picture books
Baa Baa Smart Sheep Mark & Rowan Sommerset
A Dog Like That! Janene Cooper & Evie Kemp
Hill & Hole Kyle Mewburn & Vasanti Unka
Marmaduke Duck and the Marmalade Jam Juliette MacIver & Sarah Davis
The Moon & Farmer McPhee Margaret Mahy & David Elliot
Non-fiction
The Kiwi Fossil Hunter's Handbook James Crampton & Marianna Terezow
The life cycle of the Pukeko Betty Brownlie
Sensational Survivors Sandra Morris
Who's Cooking Tonight? Claire Gourley & Glenda Gourley
Zero Hour: The Anzacs on the Western Front Leon Davidson
Junior fiction
Finnigan & the Pirates Sherryl Jordan
The Haystack Jack Lasenby
Hollie Chips Anna Gowan
Shadow of the Boyd Diana Menefy
Tussock Elizabeth Pulford
Young Adult
Ebony Hill Anna Mackenzie
Fierce September Fleur Beale
Guardian of the Dead Karen Healey
The Limping Man Maurice Gee
Smiling Jack Ken Catran
Some of the ones that catch my attention are Baa Baa Smart Sheep, a wonderfully irreverent story in the style of The Mole who knew it wasn't any of his business and The Moon & Farmer McPhee for those of a more contemplative mind. I can't let the opportunity go by to recommend Maurice Gee's The Limping Man. It's the last book in a great trilogy and Gee has got to be my favourite NZ author. Feel free to let me know who you think would win and when winners are drawn I'll let you all know if the majority of people in our library agree with the judges.
If you want to make a more formal vote there is a children's choice award where you can get in on the action. If you vote for the children's choice award you go into the draw to win $500 dollars of book tokens for yourself and another $500 for your school (voters must be of school age). So come into the library and grab a voting form. They're free post so it will cost you nothing and could win you $500 dollars worth of books. Voting closes 5pm on the 29th of April.
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