s ever, there’s a crazy mixed bag of titles in this year’s finalists for the 2023 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, which says something about the breadth of this country’s publishing for young people. But this year’s awards are unlikely to produce the tsunami effect of last year, when , the finale to Gavin Bishop’s trilogy of large-format picture books for all ages, took the trifecta of the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction, the Russell Clark Award for Illustration and the Margaret Mahy award for Book of the
