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‘New Zealand Disasters’ shortlisted and Runner Up for NZ Heritage Literary Awards (2021)
‘New Zealand Disasters’ Storylines Notable Highly Commended (nonfiction) Book (2021)
‘New Zealand Disasters’ shortlisted for (nonfiction) NZ Children’s Book Awards (2021)
Awarded Arts Centre Residency in Christchurch from August – October 2021
‘Ice Breaker! An Epic Antarctic Adventure’ shortlisted NZSA Heritage Book Awards (2020)
‘Anzac Animals’ shortlisted for PANZ awards (2019)
Awarded the 2020 Margaret Mahy Medal for lifetime achievement and significant contribution to children’s literature and literacy ‘Ice Breaker! An Epic Antarctic Adventure’ shortlisted for 2020 NZSA Heritage Book Award (Children’s book)
‘Anzac Animals’ Storylines Notable Award 2020 (Nonfiction category)
‘Abel Tasman: Mapping the Southern Lands’ Finalist NZ Book Awards for Children & YA Illustration (2018)
‘Abel Tasman: Mapping the Southern Lands’ Storylines Notable Book (2018)
‘Toroa’s Journey’ Storylines Notable Book (2018)
‘Anzac Heroes’ Storylines Notable Book (2017)
‘Anzac Heroes’ won the NZ Book Awards Elsie Locke (non-fiction) Award (2016)
‘Anzac Heroes’ won the NZ Book Awards Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award (2016)
‘Anzac Heroes’ Finalist for the NZ Children’s Book Awards Children’s Choice Award (2016)
‘New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame’ Storylines Notable Book (2015)
‘New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame’ Finalist Elsie Locke, LIANZA Children’s Book Awards (2015)
‘New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame’ Finalist NZ Childrens Book Awards Children’s Choice Award (2015)
‘Running the Country’ Storylines Notable Book (2014)
‘Eruption!’ Storylines Notable Book (2013)
‘Eruption!’ shortlisted Elsie Locke, LIANZA Children’s Book Awards (2013)
‘The Call of the Kokako’, Storylines Notable Book Award (2012)
‘The Call of the Kokako’ Finalist Elsie Locke and Russell Clark, LIANZA (2012)
‘New Zealand Hall of Fame’ Finalist Elsie Locke, LIANZA (2012)
‘New Zealand Hall of Fame’ winner Children’s Choice, NZ Post Children’s & YA Book Awards (2012)
‘The Call of the Kokako’ Storylines Notable Book (2012)
‘New Zealand Hall of Fame’ Storylines Notable Book (2012)
‘Save Our Seas’ Storylines Notable Book (2010)
‘Rangitoto’ Finalist NZ Post Children’s & YA Book Awards , non-fiction (2010)
Second in a national writing competition ‘Rodney Writes’ in the Premier (published authors’) category
‘Bird’s-eye View’ Storylines Notable Book (2007)
‘Bird’s-eye View’ Finalist Elsie Locke Award, LIANZA (2007)