Holiday Reading 2004: Awards
New Zealand
Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Children's Book Awards
- Esther Glen Award
- Catran, Ken Jacko Moran, Sniper
- Russell Clark Award
- Gash, Graeme Napoleon and the Chicken Farmer text by Lloyd Jones
- Elsie Locke Award
- Hunt, Janet A Bird in the Hand: Keeping New Zealand Wildlife Safe
- Te Kura Pounamu Award
- Calman, Ross Te Tahuna
New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards
- Picture Book
- Allen, Pamela Cuthbert's Babies
- Junior Fiction
- Jones, Vicky Juggling with Mandarins
- Senior Fiction
- Dawe, Ted Thunder Road
- Non-Fiction
- Hunt, Janet A Bird in the Hand: Keeping New Zealand Wildlife Safe
- Book of the Year (Supreme Award)
- Hunt, Janet A Bird in the Hand: Keeping New Zealand Wildlife Safe
- Children's choice
- Gabel, Ngareta Oh Hogwash, Sweet Pea!
- Best First Book
- Dawe, Ted Thunder Road
United States of America
- Newbery Medal
- DiCamillo, Kate The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
- Caldecott Medal
- Gerstein, Mordicai The Man Who Walked between the Towers
Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
- Picture Book
- Gerstein, Mordicai The Man Who Walked between the Towers
- Fiction
- Almond, David The Fire-Eaters
- Non-Fiction
- Murphy, Jim An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Australia
Children's Book Council Book of the Year
- Picture Book
- Curtis, Neil Cat and fish
- Early Childhood
- Allen, Pamela Grandpa and Thomas
- Younger readers
- Wilkinson, Carole Dragonkeeper
- Older readers
- Marchetta, Melina Saving Francesca
- The Eve Pownall Award for information books
- Nicholson, John Animal architects
England
- Carnegie Medal
- Donnelly, Jennifer A gathering light
- Kate Greenaway Medal
- Hughes, Shirley Ella's big chance: a fairy tale retold
- Whitbread Award
- Almond, David The Fire-Eaters
- Centre for Literacy in Primary Education Poetry Award
- McGough, Roger All the best: the selected poems of Roger McGough
- Guardian Award
- Rosoff, Meg How I Live Now
- Smarties Prize
- The 2004 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize will be awarded at a ceremony Wednesday December 8th: shortlist.
Canada
- Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for illustration (Canadian Association of Children's Librarians)
- Slavin, Bill Stanley's Party (text by Linda Bailey)
- Book of the Year for Children (Canadian Association of Children's Librarians)
- Doyle, Brian Boy O' Boy
- Young Adult Book Award (Canadian Library Association)
- Horvath, Polly The canning season