2025 New Zealand book Awards for Children and Young Adults — winners

The winners of the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults:
Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award: The Treaty of Waitangi / Te Tiriti of Waitangi, Ross Calman (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Kāi Tahu) (Oratia Books)
BookHub Picture Book Award: Titiro Look, Gavin Bishop (Tainui, Ngāti Awa), translated by Darryn Joseph (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Rereahu) (Gecko Press)
Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction: Detective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat, Li Chen (Penguin Random House)
Young Adult Fiction Award: The Paradise Generation, Sanna Thompson (umop apisdn press)
Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction: The Treaty of Waitangi / Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Ross Calman (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Kāi Tahu) (Oratia Books)
Russell Clark Award for Illustration: Hineraukatauri me Te Ara Pūoro, illustrated by Rehua Wilson (Te Aupouri, Te Rarawa), written by Elizabeth Gray (Ngāti Rēhia, Ngāti Uepōhatu, Tama Ūpoko ki te awa tipua, Ngāti Tūwharetoa anō hoki) (Huia Publishers)
Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for a Book Originally Written in Te Reo Māori: Hineraukatauri me Te Ara Pūoro, Elizabeth Gray (Ngāti Rēhia, Ngāti Uepōhatu, Tama Ūpoko ki te awa tipua, Ngāti Tūwharetoa anō hoki), illustrated by Rehua Wilson (Te Aupouri, Te Rarawa) (Huia Publishers)
Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for a Book Translated into Te Reo Māori: A Ariā me te Atua o te Kūmara, written by Witi Ihimaera (Te Whānau a Kai, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga a Mahaki, Ngāti Porou), translated by Hēni Jacob (Ngāti Raukawa), illustrated by Isobel Joy Te Aho-White (Ngāti Kahungunu, Kāi Tahu) (Penguin Random House)
NZSA Best First Book Award: The Raven's Eye Runaways, Claire Mabey (Allen & Unwin)