Scholastic New Zealand Award
for Best Children’s Book 2021
Winner
Designer: Vasanti Unka
Title: I Am the Universe
Publisher: Penguin Random House NZ
Format: 310 x 240mm, 32pp.
Cover: PLC, square-backed, matt lam plus spot gloss. Text: 157gsm matt art
Typography: Internals: Helvetica, MaldenSans, varying sizes and weights according to hierarchy of text. Cover: Hand lettered, plus Univers LT Std, varying sizes and weights according to hierarchy of text
Judges’ comments A book that explodes with inventive, intricate, playful and vivid illustrations. This is a book which readers can enjoy over and over, and find something new to discover each time. Fun and imaginative throughout, the large format perfectly suits the scale of the subject. Readers can’t help but feel transported on a joyous journey from the first to last page.
