Scholastic New Zealand Award
for Best Children’s Book 2020
Finalist
Designers: Vida and Luke Kelly, illustrated by Gavin Bishop
Title: Wildlife of Aotearoa
Publisher: Penguin Random House NZ
Format: 370 x 270mm, 64pp, hardback, section-sewn with ribbon and 4 colour end papers. Printed on 160gsm Lucky Bird paper
Typography: Fonts: Myriad Pro, Quimbly.
Judges’ comments This book is huge. Not just in format, but in scope and imagination.
A companion to Bishop’s earlier book Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story, Wildlife of Aotearoa and it’s just as impressive. A staggering amount of information is conveyed through the clever illustrations and canny typography.
