Storylines: Children’s Literature Foundation of New Zealand Notable New Zealand Books
The list of Notable Books was established in 1999 to reflect the wide-ranging achievements of New Zealand authors and illustrators. It appears in February each year. The CLFNZ Notable Books list allows for the inclusion of picture books with offshore illustrators as well as anthologies.
2010
Picture books
The House that Jack Built by Gavin Bishop- Mr McGee & the Perfect Nest by Pamela Allen
- The Video Shop Sparrow by Joy Cowley, illustrated by Gavin Bishop
- Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack by Lynley Dodd
- Sydney and the Sea Monster by David Elliot
- Mechanical Harry & the Flying Bicycle by Bob Kerr
- The Builder’s Cat by Gwenda Turner
- Wooden Fish by Tim Tipene, illustrated by Jennifer Cooper
- Foster Dog by Joy Watson, illustrated by Annabel Craighie
- Mouse Opera by Richard and Pamela Wolfe
Junior fiction
Time Out by David Hill- Storm by Margaret Beames
- Call of the Selkie by Jean Bennett, illustrated by Shawn Shea
- Attacked! by G Brassi
- More of the Wild Wests by Joy Cowley
- 2Much4U by Vince Ford
- Three’s a Crowd by Penelope Huber
- Down in the Dump with Dinsmore [Aussie Bites] by Margaret Mahy
- A Villain’s Night Out by Margaret Mahy
- Going for Gold by Trevor Wilson
Senior (young adult) fiction
Playing to Win by Fleur Beale- Lester by Bernard Beckett
- Golden Prince by Ken Catran
- Closed, Stranger by Kate De Goldi
- The Tiggie Tompson Show by Tessa Duder
- The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan
- The Shaman and the Droll by Jack Lasenby
- He Taonga Tuku Iho- Ngati Porou Stories from the East Cape by Bob McConnell, illustrated by Manawa o te Rangi Waipara
- Jerome by William Taylor
- Love and Other Excuses by Jane Westaway
Non-fiction
The Life-Size Guide to Insects by Andrew Crowe- How to Catch Fish by Colin Anderson, illustrated by Keith Olsen
- Red-Eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley and Nic Bishop
- I am a Fish by Wade Doak
- Who’s Wild and Free? by Terry Fitzgibbon
- Wildlife Stuff by Dave Gunson
- Anzacs at Gallipoli by John Lockyer and Chris Pugsley
- Te Wao Nui a Tane by Hirini Melbourne, illustrated by Te Maari Gardiner
- 100 New Zealand Poems for Children edited by Jo Noble, illustrated by David Elliot
- Myths and Legends of Aotearoa by Annie Rae Te Ake Ake