New Zealand Childrens Book Awards Shortlist 2022

The titles on this page have been shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults 2022.

Awards in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are made in six categories: Picture Book, Junior Fiction (the Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award), Young Adult Fiction, Non-Fiction (the Elsie Locke Award), Illustration (the Russell Clark Award) and te reo Māori (the Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award). These books have been created by talented New Zealand authors and artists for keen readers just like you.

Have you read them yet?