Young Adult Picture book Scarface Claw, Hold Tight! Penguin Random House

te kaupapa o te kõrero Notable Book Awards

it’s my egg (and you can’t have it!) Kennedy Warne / Heather Hunt The pick of the best New Zealand titles published in 2017 Flight Path Potton & Burton as chosen by New Zealand’s premier national organisation promoting books for children and young adults. Penguin Random House The Traitor and the Thief Storylines Notable Books Gareth Ward Walker Books Australia Ngā Tae / Colours 2018 Storylines / Kitty Brown / Illustration palette Kirsten Parkinson — Reo Pēpi A range of book kid illustrations to increase ‘storytelling’ and ‘journey’ cues. If I Had an Elephant Richard Fairgray / Terry Jones Scholastic NZ The Severed Land Ambulance, Ambulance! Penguin Random House What Are You Supposed to Be? Sally Sutton / Brian Lovelock Inspector Brunswick - Paul Beavis Walker Books Australia The Case of the Missing Eyebrow Scholastic NZ Angela Keoghan / Chris Lam Sam Pieces of You Tate Publishing Eileen Merriman Penguin Random House

The Longest Breakfast Jenny Bornholdt / Sarah Wilkins Gecko Press Zeustian Logic Torty and the Soldier Sabrina Malcolm Jennifer Beck / Fifi Colston Storylines Children’s Literature Trust of NZ Special mention Gecko Press The Curious Ar-Chew Scholastic NZ PO Box 96094 Tu Meke Tūi: Koni atu kē ngā IndicBalmoralative only. Can be from a range of illustrators and evolve, Sarah Grundy / That’s Not the Monster We Ordered change and update over time. āhua o te manu rērere Auckland 1342 New Zealand Malcolm Clarke / Hayley King Ali Teo / John O’Reilly Richard Fairgray / Terry Jones www.storylines.org.nz Little Love Scholastic NZ Penguin Random House www.storylines.org.nz Storylines Identity 2013 / Page Junior Fiction My New Zealand Story: Non-Fiction Bastion Point Tania Roxborogh Scholastic NZ

Collins Field Guide to the New Zealand Seashore Nature Storybooks: Gecko Sally Carson / Rod Morris Raymond Huber / Brian Lovelock HarperCollins Walker Books Australia Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story Helper and Helper / Gavin Bishop Penguin Random House Awatea's Treasure Gecko Press Toroa’s Journey Fraser Smith Maria Gill / Huia Publishers Gavin Mouldey How Not to Stop a Potton & Burton The Spaghetti Giraffe Kidnap Plot Sarah Johnson / Suzanne Main Deborah Hinde Scholastic NZ Whose Feet are These? Flat Bed Press Gillian Candler / Fraser Williamson Potton & Burton Flying Furballs: Unmasked Donovan Bixley How to Mend a Kea + Cook Islands Heroes Other Fabulous Fix-It David Riley / Michel Mulipola Upstart Press The Thunderbolt Pony Tales from Reading Warrior Stacy Gregg Wildbase Hospital HarperCollins Janet Hunt Massey University

New Zealand’s Great White Flying Furballs: Most Wanted Sky High: Jean Batten’s Incredible Sharks: How science is Donovan Bixley Flying Adventures revealing their secrets Upstart Press Miniwings #1: David Hill / Phoebe Morris Alison Ballance Glitterwing’s Book Week Penguin Random House Potton & Burton Blunder Special mention Sally Sutton / Special mention The Dragon Defenders - Book One Kirsten Richards James Russell Scholastic NZ Powering up with Joseph Parker Dragon Brothers David Riley Explore! Aotearoa Reading Warrior The Dragon Defenders - Book Two: Abel Tasman: Mapping Bronwen Wall / The Pitbull Returns the Southern Lands Kimberly Andrews Go Fiji, Go James Russell Maria Gill / Marco Ivancic Kennett Brothers David Riley Dragon Brothers www.storylines.org.nz Scholastic NZ Reading Warrior