Kiwi Books
New Zealand's best-selling books of all time are awarded Platinum Awards by the Booksellers New Zealand group. To achieve Platinum status, sales need to achieve the following levels:
- Fiction: 50,000+ copies
- Poetry: 5,000+ copies
- Non Fiction: 100,000+ copies
- Children/Teens: 40,000+ copies
Platinum Award Winners are:
Adult Fiction
The Nature of Things: Poems from the New Zealand landscape
James Brown (editor) (Craig Potton Publishing)
Once Were Warriors
Alan Duff (Random House NZ)
Pounamu Pounamu
Witi Ihimaera (Reed Publishing NZ)
The Whale Rider
Witi Ihimaera (Reed Publishing NZ)
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
Alan Duff (Random House NZ)
Poetry
Nursery Rhymes mother never read you
Garrick Tremain (Craig Printing Co Ltd)
Playing God
Glenn Colquhoun (Steele Roberts)
Adult Non Fiction
100 Great Ways to Use Slow Cookers & Crockpots
Simon & Alison Holst (Hyndman Publishing)
Edmonds Cookery Book Revised Edition
Goodman Fielder NZ (Hachette Livre NZ)
The Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook
Ian Brodie (HarperCollins Publishing NZ)
Marvellous Muffins
Alison Holst (Hyndman Publishing)
Meals Without Meat
Alison Holst & Simon Holst (New Holland Publishers NZ)
The Penguin History of New Zealand
Michael King (Penguin Group NZ)
Pictorial New Zealand
Warren Jacobs (New Holland Publishers NZ)
A Portrait of New Zealand
Warren Jacobs & Robin Smith (New Holland Publishers NZ)
The Reed Concise Maori Dictionary
A. W. Reed (Reed Publishing NZ)
Yates Garden Guide
(HarperCollins Publishers NZ)
Children & Teens
Grandpa's Slippers
Joy Watson & Wendy Hodder (Scholastic NZ)
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy
Lynley Dodd (Mallinson Rendel/ Penguin Group NZ)
Hairy Maclary's Bone
Lynley Dodd (Mallinson Rendel/ Penguin Group NZ)
Hairy Maclary's Caterwaul Caper
Lynley Dodd (Mallinson Rendel/Penguin Group (New Zealand)
Hairy Maclary Scattercat
Lynley Dodd (Mallinson Rendel/ Penguin Group NZ)
Hairy Maclary's Rumpus at the Vet
Lynley Dodd (Mallinson Rendel/ Penguin Group NZ)
Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness
Lynley Dodd (Mallinson Rendel/ Penguin Group NZ)
Hairy Maclary Sit
Lynley Dodd (Mallinson Rendel/ Penguin Group NZ)
The Little Yellow Digger
Betty & Alan Gilderdale (Scholastic NZ)
A Pukeko in a Ponga Tree
Kingi Ihaka & Dick Frizzell (Reed Publishing NZ)
Slinky Malinki
Lynley Dodd (Mallinson Rendel/ Penguin Group NZ)