Margaret Mahy Book of the Year

Singing Home the Whale by Mandy Hager (Random House, 2014)

Best First Book

Māori Art for Kids by Julie Noanoa and Norm Heke (Craig Potton Publishing, 2014)

Young Adult

Singing Home the Whale by Mandy Hager (Random House, 2014)

Children’s Choice Young Adult Fiction

Night Vision by Ella West (Allen & Unwin, 2014)

Junior Fiction

Monkey Boy by Donovan Bixley (Scholastic, 2014)

Children’s Choice Junior Fiction

The Island of Lost Horses by Stacy Gregg (HarperCollins, 2014)

Picture Book

Jim’s Letters by Glyn Harper, illustrated by Jenny Cooper (Puffin Books, 2014)

Children’s Choice Picture Book

The Anzac Puppy by Peter Millett, illustrated by Trish Bowles (Scholastic, 2014)

Non-Fiction

Mōtītī Blue and the Oil Spill by Debbie McCauley (Mauao Publishing, 2014)

Children’s Choice Non-Fiction

The Letterbox Cat and other poems by Paula Green, illustrated by Myles Lawford (Scholastic, 2014)

Māori Language

Ngā Kī by Sacha Cotter and Joshua Morgan, translated by Kawata Teepa (Huia, 2014) (translation of Keys, a finalist in the Picture Book category)