… for Snake and Lizard at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards.
Other winners:
- Maurice Gee won the Young Adult category with Salt
- Best Non-Fiction: Which New Zealand Spider? by Andrew Crowe
- Best Picture Book: Tahi – One Lucky Kiwi by Melanie Drewery, illustrated by Ali Teo and John O’Reilly
- Best First Book: Out of the Egg, written and illustrated by Tina Matthews
- Children’s Choice Award: The King’s Bubbles by Ruth Paul
