Ted Dawe’s book Into the River won the New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book of the Year and was also the winner of the Young Adult Fiction category. This engaging coming of age novel follows its main protagonist from his childhood in small town rural New Zealand to an elite Auckland boarding school where he must forge his own way – including battling with his cultural identity.
The New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards promote excellence and provide recognition for the best written and illustrated children’s books published by New Zealand authors each year.
As the winner of both the Young Adult Fiction category and the New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book of the Year, Mr Dawe received a total of $15,000 in cash prizes.
The New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards winners for 2013 are:
| Best Young Adult Fiction and New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Into the River* by Ted Dawe Mangakino University Press ISBN 9780473205089 |  |
| Best Non-Fiction 100 Amazing Tales from Aotearoa by Simon Morton & Riria Hotere Te Papa Press ISBN 9781877385797 |  |
| Best Junior Fiction My Brother's War by David Hill Penguin Group NZ ISBN 9780143307174 (paperback) ISBN 9781742532653 (e-book) |  |
| Honour award, Junior Fiction
The Queen and the Nobody Boy: A Tale of Fontania series by Barbara Else Gecko Press ISBN 9781877579493 |  |
| Best Picture Book Mister Whistler by Margaret Mahy & Gavin Bishop Gecko Press ISBN 9781877467929 |  |
| Best First Book
Reach by Hugh Brown HarperCollins ISBN 9781869509569 |  |
| Children’s Choice Melu by Kyle Mewburn, Ali Teo & John O’Reilly, Scholastic NZ ISBN 9781775430278 |  |
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