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This writer is going to scriptwrite and drink coffee and play with Coach and watch telly and write and listen to music and investigate the kawa around sea creatures and flesh out the back story of a character (not done in the novel)
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Ross Calman | Writer, Editor, Historian and Translator of the Māori language

Ross Calman’s The Treaty of Waitangi has taken top honours at the 2025 #NZCYA awards winning both the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year and the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction. He talks with Dale Husband on #Waatea News:
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Ross Calman Wins Top Book Award for Treaty of Waitangi Storytelling

Historian Ross Calman takes out the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year for his children’s book on the Treaty of Waitangi
Listen to the interview on Waatea NEWS
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Publishing trend of Māori stories here to stay, says award-winner Ross Calman Kiwis want more books set in New Zealand, on te ao Māori and on te reo Māori, according to this year’s winner of the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year award.

New Zealanders want more books set in New Zealand, on te ao Māori and on te reo Māori, a leading historian and this year’s winner of the Margaret Mahy book of the year award says.
www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3607...

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Authors standing on stage

The books up for the Esther Glen award. Graphic novel Detective Beans took the award. Brown Bird, Ravens Eye Runaways took best debut, Violet and the Velvets and The Apprentice Witnesser.

Photos from #NZCYA book awards. The finalists in the Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction: Jane Arthur, Li Chen, Me, Claire Mabey, Rachael King flanked by Judge LJ Keegan and Sponsor O Wright from the Wright Family Trust. Li Chen won this section and Claire Mabey took out best debut book. #booksky

Children's Book Awards dominated by Māori titles There was Māori representation in almost every category of the awards.

Young people are our rangatira mo apōpō, our leaders of the future, says Ross Calman (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Kāi Tahu), the author of this year's winning book for children and young adults.
www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/c...
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Ross Calman's The Treaty of Waitangi is Margaret Mahy Book of the Year! Read more from the publisher:
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Ross Calman’s Treaty book wins top children’s literature awards A children’s book about Te Tiriti o Waitangi has won top honours in a landmark year for Māori storytelling and literature for young New Zealanders.

Calman (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Kāi Tahu) has written more than a dozen books on NZ history, including on the Treaty, the New Zealand Wars and on his own ancestor, Te Rauparaha.
www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3607...

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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

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 🥹
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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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Books Alive presents David Riley, Jane Arthur, Rachel Clare, Kiri Lightfoot, Juliette MacIver, Rachael King. Friday 8 August, Te Aratai College, Phillipstown, Christchurch, hosted by WORD Christchurch

Next week, I'll be joining some cool kids' book people in Ōtautahi for the Books Alive/Word Chch sessions for the 2025 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults! #nzcya Schools can book here: www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-...

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

Free teacher resource (10 pages, PDF) available for the book
The Treaty of Waitangi / Te Tiriti o Waitangi by Ross Calman
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We're so excited to share a glimpse into the sketchbooks of the finalists in the #NZCYA illustration awards!
Check out gorgeous work and process from Anna Aldridge, Isaac du Toit, Rehua Wilson, Ruth Paul & Sarah Wilkins
www.thesapling.co.nz/nzcya-2025-r...

Writing a non-fiction book for children takes all the research a book for adults might, then careful crafting of information to present it appropriately for kids. We asked the creators of the finalists in the #nzcya Children's Book Awards just what inspired all that work:
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Congratulations Ross Calman (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Kāi Tahu), finalist in the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults

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Congratulations Ross Calman, finalist in the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults with the NZ Series book The Treaty of Waitangi. Screenshot from #NZCYA FB Page
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Hey #Booksky! Find out more about the books in the #NZCYA Junior Fiction Shortlist for the Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award @thesaplingnz.bsky.social! #mglit #kidsbooks @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social

32 book covers of the shortlisted books in the NZ children’s and young adults book awards.

Hey #booksky if you want to find out more about the #NZCYA book awards shortlist announced yesterday or are after pukapuka for your tamariki some in te reo Māori, hop on over to their website: www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-... #booksalive

Congratulations Ross Calman, finalist in the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, ELSIE LOCKE AWARD FOR NON-FICTION, with the NZ Series book The Treaty of Waitangi.

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‘Strong flavour of us’ among rangatahi book awards finalists The 32 best children and young adult books in Aotearoa have been announced, and there should be something for everyone to see themselves in, judges say.

Fab article in The Post today, covering this year’s shortlist for the NZ Book Awards for children & Young Adults. Thanks to Sapeer Mayron for the shout-out! 🤩

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www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3607...

Images of the five shortlisted books in the Junior Fiction segment of the NZCYA Awards.

So many amazing books in the NZ CYA Awards this year including five by my publisher @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social #booksky #nzcya #booksalive

Absolutely delighted our book RURU, Night Hunter is a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults! Such an honour to be selected & grateful to all who have helped on Ruru's journey so far. #Nedbarraud #ScholasicNZ #NZCYA #booksalive @steamteambooks.bsky.social

Graphic announcing NZ book of the year for young readers shortlistings

Images of the five books that make up the Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction The Apprentice Witnesser (mine), Ravens Eye Runaways, Violet and the Velvets, Brown Bird, Detective Beans.

Thrilled to see The Apprentice Witnesser Shortlisted in a very strong collection of NZ Books for Children and Young Adults! ... #nzcya #booksalive @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social @allenandunwin.bsky.social

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

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!

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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.
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Interview: Stacy Gregg on Nine Girls - The Sapling 2024 judge of the NZCYA awards Belinda Whyte in conversation with Margaret Mahy Award winner Stacy Gregg. I’ll be honest with you, I had never read a Stacy Gregg novel before reading Nine Girls for th...

On The Sapling today #NZCYA judge Belinda Whyte talks with Stacy Gregg about land theft, the Springbok tour, language revitalisation, the end of Gregg's pony era and what made NINE GIRLS the top book in this year's awards:
www.thesapling.co.nz/interview-st...