Storylines Notable Book Lists 2000

Storylines Notable Book Awards winners 2000, for books published in 1999) were:

Story books where text and illustration work together

Mr McGee & the Perfect Nest by Pamela Allen (Penguin Books)
The House that Jack Built by Gavin Bishop (Scholastic)
The Video Shop Sparrow by Joy Cowley, illustrated by Gavin Bishop (Mallinson Rendel)
Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack by Lynley Dodd (Mallinson Rendel)
Sydney and the Sea Monster by David Elliot (Random House)
Mechanical Harry & the Flying Bicycle by Bob Kerr (Mallinson Rendel)
The Builder’s Cat by Gwenda Turner (Penguin Books)
Wooden Fish by Tim Tipene, illustrated by Jennifer Cooper (Reed Publishers)
Foster Dog by Joy Watson, illustrated by Annabel Craighie (Scholastic)
Mouse Opera by Richard and Pamela Wolfe (Scholastic)

For primary or intermediate level readers

Storm by Margaret Beames (Scholastic)
Call of the Selkie by Jean Bennett, illustrated by Shawn Shea (Shortland Publications)
Attacked! by G Brassi (Scholastic)
More of the Wild Wests by Joy Cowley (HarperCollins)
2Much4U by Vince Ford (Scholastic)
Time Out by David Hill (Mallinson Rendel)
Three’s a Crowd by Penelope Huber (Longacre Press)
Down in the Dump with Dinsmore [Aussie Bites] by Margaret Mahy (Penguin Books)
A Villain’s Night Out by Margaret Mahy (Penguin Books)
Going for Gold by Trevor Wilson (Scholastic)

Fiction suitable for secondary school readers

Playing to Win by Fleur Beale (Scholastic) Lester by Bernard Beckett (Longacre Press)
Golden Prince by Ken Catran (Lothian Books)
Closed, Stranger by Kate De Goldi (Penguin Books)
The Tiggie Tompson Show by Tessa Duder (Penguin Books)
The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan (Macmillan)
The Shaman and the Droll by Jack Lasenby (Longacre Press)
He Taonga Tuku Iho- Ngati Porou Stories from the East Cape by Bob McConnell, illustrated by Manawa o te Rangi Waipara (Reed Publishers)
Jerome by William Taylor (Longacre Press)
Love and Other Excuses by Jane Westaway (Longacre Press)

For authoritative, well-designed informational books accessible to children and young adults.

How to Catch Fish by Colin Anderson, illustrated by Keith Olsen (Bridge Hill)
Red-Eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley and Nic Bishop (Scholastic)
The Life-Sized Guide to Insects by Andrew Crowe (Penguin Books)
I am a Fish by Wade Doak (Reed Publishers)
Who’s Wild and Free? by Terry Fitzgibbon (Penguin Books)
Wildlife Stuff by Dave Gunson (Scholastic)
Anzacs at Gallipoli by John Lockyer and Chris Pugsley (Reed Publishers)
Te Wao Nui a Tane by Hirini Melbourne, illustrated by Te Maari Gardiner (Huia Publishers)
100 New Zealand Poems for Children edited by Jo Noble, illustrated by David Elliot (Random House)
Myths and Legends of Aotearoa by Annie Rae Te Ake Ake (Scholastic)