PANZ Award for Best Educational Book or Series – Primary 2025
Finalist
Designer: Sarah Elworthy
Title: Kiwi bees have tiny knees: native bees of Aotearoa New Zealand
Publisher: Weston Books
Format: 260 x 215mm, 32pp, hardback (non-scuff matt lamination with spot gloss) with endpapers printed 1 colour (Pantone 381U) on 140gsm Woodfree (FSC stock). Text printed on 128gsm Glossy Art Paper (FSC stock)
Typography: Cover Amatic SC regular and bold
Inside pages: Headings: Amatic SC bold
Body text: Gibson book (body text highlights are JollyGood Proper Condensed extra bold)
Bee boxes Skippie Regular and thin
QR code boxes Amatic bold 13pt
Publisher’s Brief
“The publisher’s brief was to inform, educate and inspire children and their families to fall in love with our native bees, ngaro huruhuru. A book that children could enjoy dipping in and out of or read as a whole. I wanted to create a bright and tactile book that was visually appealing as well as informative, and there were multiple elements to take into consideration including photographs, illustrations, bee fact boxes and QR codes linking to short videos of native bees, allowing children to identify native bees from other bees, along with the main body text.”
