Esther Glen Award

Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa.

Established 1945 in honour of Esther Glen, a New Zealand journalist, children's book editor and author. Given for a the most distinguished contribution to New Zealand literature for children and young adults.

1998 - David Hill. Fat, four-eyed and useless (Scholastic)

1997 - Kate De Goldi. Sanctuary (Penguin)

1996 - Janice Marriott. Crossroads (Reed)

1995 - Maurice Gee. The Fat Man

1994 - Paula Boock. Sasscat to Win

1993 - Margaret Mahy. Underrunners

1992 - Tessa Duder. Alessandra: Alex in Rome

1991 - William Taylor. Agnes the Sheep

1990 - Tessa Duder. Alex in Winter

1989 - Jack Lasenby. The Mangrove Summer

1988 - Tessa Duder. Alex

1986 - Maurice Gee. Motherstone

1985 - Margaret Mahy. The Changeover

1984 - Caroline Macdonald. Elephant Rock

1983 - Anne de Roo. Jacky Nobody

1982 - Margaret Mahy. The Haunting

1981 - Katherine O'Brien. The Year of the Yelvertons

1980 - No Award

1979 - Joan de Hamel. Take the Long Path

1978 - Ronda Armitage. The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch

1976-1977 - No Awards

1975 - Eve Sutton and Lynley Dodd. My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes

1974 - No Award

1973 - Margaret Mahy. The First Margaret Mahy Story Book

1971-1972 - No Awards

1970 - Margaret Mahy. A Lion in the Meadow

1965-1969 - No Awards

1964 - Leslie C. Powell. The Story of a Little Boy

1960-1963 - No Awards

1959 - Maurice Duggan. Falter Tom and the Water Boy

1951-1958 - No Awards

1950 - Joan Smith. The Adventures of Nimble, Rumble and Tumble

1948-1949 - No Awards

1947 - A.W. Reed. Myths and Legends of Maoriland

1946 - No Award

1945 - Stella Morice. The Book of Wiremu

Wednesday, October 14, 1998
New Zealand Book Awards from:
The Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/