Winners for the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults for 2005
NZ Post Book of the Year: Clubs: A Lolly Leopold Story, by Kate De Goldi and Jacqui Colley; Trapeze Picture Book: Clubs: A Lolly Leopold Story, by Kate De Goldi & Jacqui Colley; Trapeze Non Fiction:Welcome to the South Seas: Contemporary New Zealand Art for Young People, by Gregory O'Brien; Auckland University Press Junior Fiction: Aunt Effie and the Island That Sank, by Jack Lasenby; Longacre Press Young Adult Fiction: Malcolm and Juliet, by Bernard Beckett; Longacre Press Best First Book Award: Cross Tides, by Lorraine Orman; Longacre Press Children's Choice Award: The Other Ark, by Lynley Dodd; Mallinson Rendel