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While the finalists in the NZCYA NZSA Best First Book Award may be new names to readers, there's more to them than overnight success. We asked them about their paths to publication:
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#booksky #kidlit #newauthor #nzcya #pukapuka
July 8, 2026 at 10:52 PM
stephm1.bsky.social
Thrilled that my YA indigenous sci-fi book 'Migration' has been shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults! It's a decent yarn, I reckon.
Congrats to all the finalists!
Available at bookstores and the library!

#NZCYA #BooksAlive #author #writing #kikorangi #booksky
Book covers of all the finalists in the NZCYA young adult category: Bear by Kiri Lightfoot, Gracehoper by Mandy Hager, Migration by ME, The Mess of out Lives by Mary-Anne Scott, and The Paradise Generation by Sanna Thompson
June 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
ninjakitty.bsky.social
Very proud of my niece @jemyoshioka.bsky.social making the finalist list a couple of times for the #NZCYA held tonight.
Congrats to everyone nominated because you make reading so great for our kids!! 🙌🙌🙌🤗
thesaplingnz.bsky.social The Sapling @thesaplingnz.bsky.social · Jul 8
While the finalists in the NZCYA NZSA Best First Book Award may be new names to readers, there's more to them than overnight success. We asked them about their paths to publication:
www.thesapling.co.nz/nzcya-2026-t...
#booksky #kidlit #newauthor #nzcya #pukapuka
August 19, 2026 at 10:06 AM
clairemabey.bsky.social
My book got the sweetest medal! www.thesapling.co.nz/nzcya-2025-n...
July 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
macdibble.bsky.social
So many amazing books in the NZ CYA Awards this year including five by my publisher @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social #booksky #nzcya #booksalive
Images of the five shortlisted books in the Junior Fiction segment of the NZCYA Awards.
June 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
taniaroxborogh.bsky.social
OF COURSE Goldsmith is NOT at the NZCYA book awards events tonight
August 19, 2026 at 6:52 AM
thesaplingnz.bsky.social
Take a peek into the sketchbooks of the finalists in the @nzcyabookawards.bsky.social Illustration Award!

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#booksky #illustration #childrensbooks #comics #pukapuka
July 3, 2026 at 2:36 AM
thesaplingnz.bsky.social
The winners of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults will be announced tonight!

Follow The Sapling's live coverage from the ceremony from 6.15:
www.thesapling.co.nz/nzcya-2026-t...

#pukapuka #booksky #childrensbooks #NZCYA
August 19, 2026 at 1:26 AM
thesaplingnz.bsky.social
We asked parents to read the young adult finalists in the NZCYA awards alongside their teens and tweens. Here are their reviews:
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August 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
thesaplingnz.bsky.social
Wherever you go, there you are:
@lindajane.bsky.social explores te taio/place in the finalists for the NZCYA Elsie Locke Non-fiction Award:
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#pukapuka #booksky #childrensliterature #kidlit #place #tetaio #NZCYA
July 24, 2026 at 2:39 AM
mandyh.bsky.social
I'm absolutely thrilled to see 'Gracehopper' shortlisted for the Young Adult Fiction Award in this year's New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
#NZCYA
#BooksAlive
#pukapuka
#aonzbooks
#aotearoabooks
#nzbooks
#booksnz
June 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
thesaplingnz.bsky.social
Pou, puns and perspectives: the translators and writers in the #NZCYA Te Kura Pounamu Awards quiz each other on their craft:
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#booksky #pukapuka #translation #kidlit #tereoMāori
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July 17, 2026 at 8:11 AM
thesaplingnz.bsky.social
'... there's not many other novels, I think, that do that'

Teens and their teachers read the #NZCYA Young Adult finalists:
www.thesapling.co.nz/nzcya-2026-t...

#pukapuka #booksky #YAfiction @nzcyabookawards.bsky.social
July 31, 2026 at 12:52 AM
thesaplingnz.bsky.social
We asked the children's specialist librarians at Wellington City Libraries what they thought of the finalists for the NZCYA Bookhub Picture Book Award ... so they took the books to story time to properly assess them!
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July 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
alessandrazecchini.bsky.social
#thetreatyofwaitangi #tetiritiowaitangi #NZbooks #NZCYA #booksalive @nationallibrarynz.bsky.social @nzwritersguild.bsky.social @takahemagazine.bsky.social @lianza.bsky.social @newsroom.co.nz @etangata.bsky.social @nzjh.bsky.social @buchmesse.de @christchurchlib.bsky.social @abluebox.bsky.social
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oratiabooks.bsky.social Oratia Books @oratiabooks.bsky.social · Aug 13
Congratulations to Ross Calman, author of ‘The Treaty of Waitangi’, for winning two awards today: New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
⭐️ Book of the Year 2025 ⭐️ and best non-fiction.
#NZCYA #oratiabooks @thespinoff.bsky.social @thesaplingnz.bsky.social @publisherswkly.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
thesaplingnz.bsky.social
By popular demand, we present the junior fiction finalists for the #NZCYA awards interviewing each other on their books & writing lives
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August 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
katiefurze.bsky.social
Look at this awesome Kids’ Reading Guide from NZ Booksellers! It’s packed full of gorgeous books. I’m so pleased to see PEKAPEKA Secret Forest Bat included 🦇 … and there’s RURU Night Hunter amongst the NZCYA finalists! #NZCYA
July 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
taniaroxborogh.bsky.social
Big news from France:
Charlie T has been showcased at the Bibliothèque nationale de France as part of Les Incorruptibles Pages Éduc, the lead-up to France’s biggest youth reading award, where over 1/2 a mil students vote for their favourite books. Few nzcya books ever reach this stage, so it’s huge
October 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
thesaplingnz.bsky.social
And @lindajane.bsky.social on place in the shortlisted non-fiction books:
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#pukapuka #booksky #NZCYA
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August 19, 2026 at 1:32 AM
oratiabooks.bsky.social
Ross Calman's The Treaty of Waitangi is Margaret Mahy Book of the Year! Read more from the publisher:
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#oratiabooks #NZCYA #TheTreatyOfWaitangi #TeTiritioWaitangi
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August 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
thesaplingnz.bsky.social
And, finally, the #NZCYA judges on what they've done to keep the winners secret!
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#pukapuka #booksky
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August 19, 2026 at 1:34 AM
cravenjaney.bsky.social
I did events today for Books Alive! for the children's book awards, and a child came up and said they've read their school library's copy of my book THREE times 🥹
#NZCYA
August 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
thesaplingnz.bsky.social
And the Te Kura Pounamu te reo Māori finalists quizzing each other on translating and writing in te reo Māori:
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#pukapuka #booksky #tereoMāori #NZCYA
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August 19, 2026 at 1:31 AM
nzcyabookawards.bsky.social
Our 2026 NZCYA judging panels bring together expertise from classrooms, libraries, publishing, bookselling and te reo Māori advocacy 📚

Over the coming weeks, we’ll share some of their reflections ahead of the finalists' announcement on 10 June.

Stay tuned! #NZCYA #booksalive
The 2026 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults judging panel
May 21, 2026 at 4:16 AM
oratiabooks.bsky.social
Koro Wētā reviewed in Kete Books
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Koro Wētā reviewed in Kete Books
June 18, 2026 at 9:24 PM