Clubs
Winner of the Russell Clark Award for Illustration and the Spectrum Print Award for Typography.

Uncle Jack
Finalist in the 2006 DINZ Best Awards.
Graphic Arts catagory.

Billy
Storylines Children's Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand
Notable New Zealand Book 2007

Clubs
NZ Post Book Awards 19th May 2005
Winner of the Picture Book category
Book of the Year 2005

Judges’ report
…Clubs is a book that almost introduces a new genre, a book that Margaret Mahy has described as a breakthrough in New Zealand publishing. In Clubs we celebrate in a way that no other book has managed the delicious fun that can be had with the English language, and we are given a whole new way of looking at picture books.

…It won’t always be read from front to back or even the right way up. Established publishing houses would have crawled over broken glass with roses in their teeth to get their hands on this book.

Kate De Goldi is a well-known as an author and commentator on children’s books. The exciting new discovery here is the graphic abilities of Jacqui Colley. She can draw.

This book won because it did more than carefully explore known territory. It showed us new ways of telling stories, new ways to use pictures, and to mix the words and pictures together. The voice of Lolly Leopold was so real and the world of the Tai Tapu school playground so convincing that we forgot about the grown-ups with their names on the cover.

The precocious Lolly had written this landmark book.

Image: Bruce Foster, Jacqui Colley and Kate De Goldi at NZ Post Book Awards

National Festival of reading and literature
Kate De Goldi reading Clubs to children at the Wanganui District Library on the 12th of May.
Image Courtesy: Wanganui Chronicle