Holiday Reading 2002
Selected Children's Book Awards
New Zealand
Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Children's Book Awards
- Esther Glen Award
- Russell Clark Award
- Elsie Locke Award (was Non-Fiction for Young People)
- Te Kura Pounamu Award
Announced 18 November.
New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards
- Picture Book
- Cowley, Joy Brodie, illustrated by Chris Mousdale
- Junior Fiction
- McKay, Sandy Recycled
- Senior Fiction
- Orwin, Joanna Owl
- Non-Fiction
- Davis, Lloyd Spencer The plight of the penguin
- Book of the Year (Supreme Award)
- Davis, Lloyd Spencer The plight of the penguin
- Children's choice
- Watson, Joy Grandpa's shorts
- Best first book
- Mousdale, Chris Brodie, written by Joy Cowley
United States of America
Newbery Medal
Park, Linda Sue A single shard
Caldecott Medal
Wiesner, David The three little pigs
Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards
- Picture Book
- Graham, Bob Let's get a pup!
- Fiction
- Salisbury, Graham Lord of the deep
- Non-Fiction
- Partridge, Elizabeth This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
Australia
Children's Book Council book of the year awards
- Picture Book
- Gleeson, Libby An ordinary day
- Early Childhood
- Graham, Bob Let's get a pup!
- Younger readers
- Heffernan, John My dog
- Older readers
- Hartnett, Sonya Forest
- Eve Pownall Award for information books
- Papunya School Papunya School book of country and history
England
Pratchett, Terry The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents
Riddell, Chris Pirate diary: the journal of Jake Carpenter written by Richard Platt
Pullman, Philip The amber spyglass
Duffy, Carol Ann The oldest girl in the world
Hartnett, Sonya Thursday's child
Smarties Prize (overall winner)
- 5 and Under Category
- Anholt, Catherine and Laurence Chimp and Zoe
- 6 to 8 Years Category
- Smith, Emily The shrimp
- 9 to 11 Years Category
- Ibbotson, Eva Journey to the river sea
Canada
Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for illustration (Canadian Association of Children's Librarians)
Wolfe, Frances Where I live
Book of the Year for Children (Canadian Association of Children's Librarians)
Little, Jean Orphan at my door: the home child diary of Victoria Cope
Young Adult Book Award (Canadian Library Association)
Bell, William Stones