Books by two of New Zealand's most revered children's writers - Margaret Mahy and Joy Cowley - feature in this year's New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards finalist line-up.

Antipodes: The Ingenious and Exhilarating Expedition of El Lider and La Campana. By Mark Price. Longacre Press.  RRP $34.99. 

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Unity Books of Wellington won the 2009 Independent Bookseller of the Year Award at the annual Booksellers NZ Conference in Auckland.

Unity Books of Wellington won the 2009 Independent Bookseller of the Year Award at the annual Booksellers NZ Conference in Auckland.

Emily Perkins has won the 2009 Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry for her taut and chilling book, Novel About My Wife.

4 FEBRUARY 2009 - Andre Crowe, author of many award winning books for children including The Dalai Lama Story - The Making of a World Leader published by Longacre Press, has won the country's top children's literature prize, the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal.