Great news - our very own local
author, Mandy Hager, has won the overall prize at the 2015 N.Z. Children’s Book Awards. Her novel, Singing Home the Whale, won the Margaret Mahy Book
of the Year award and the Best Young Adult Fiction award. Mandy is great
supporter of Kāpiti Libraries and a very talented author.
Other awards went to:
Best picture book - Jim's
Letters by Glyn Harper, illustrated by Jenny CooperBest junior fiction - Monkey Boy by Donovan Bixley
Best non-fiction - Motiti Blue and the Oil Spill by Debbie McCauley and Tamati Waaka
Maori language - Nga Ki by Sacha Cotter, translated by Kawata Teepa
Best first book - Maori Art for Kids by Julie Noanoa
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