2010 Ka Palapala Po'okela Awards:

Children's Hawaiian Culture
» Winner: "No ka Wai o ka Puna Hou / The Water of ka Puna Hou," by Kawehi Avelino, illustrated by Eve Furchgott (Kamehameha and Hale Kuamo'o)
» Honorable Mention: "'O Kaina ke Kumu Koa / Kaina the Koa Tree," by Kulamanu Kawai'ae'a, Emilia Ka'awa, Kawehi Keolanui and Malia Kruger, illustrated by Eve Furchgott (Kamehameha and Hale Kuamo'o)

Children's Illustrative or Photographic Books
» Winner: "When the Cassowary Pooped: A Tale of New Guinea," by Tamara Montgomery and Jodi Parry Belknap, illustrated by Joseph D. Dodd (Calabash Books)
» Honorable Mention: "Too Many Mangos," by Tammy Paikai, illustrated by Don Robinson (Island Heritage)

Children's Literature
» Winner: "Pulelehua and Mamaki," by Janice Crowl, illustrated by Harinani Orme (Bishop Museum Press and Kamahoi Press)
» Honorable Mention: "Too Many Mangos," by Tammy Paikai, illustrated by Don Robinson (Island Heritage)

Hawaiian Culture
» Winner: "Wayfinding Through the Storm: Speaking Truth to Power at Kamehameha Schools," by Gavin Daws and Na Leo o Kamehameha (Watermark)
» Honorable Mention: "Ho'okupu: An Offering of Literature by Native Hawaiian Women," edited by Miyoko Sugano and Jackie Pualani Johnson (Mutual)

Literature
» Winner: " The Bone Hook," by Ian MacMillan (Mutual)
» Honorable Mention: "Ho'okupu: An Offering of Literature by Native Hawaiian Women," edited by Miyoko Sugano and Jackie Pualani Johnson (Mutual)

Illustrative or Photographic Books
» Winner: "Big Island Journey: An Illustrated Narrative of the Island of Hawai'i," by Sophia Schweitzer and Bennett Hymer (Mutual)
» Honorable Mention: "Pacific Images: Views from Captain Cook's Third Voyage," second edition, by Eleanor C. Nordyke, in collaboration with James A. Mattison Jr., M.D. (Eleanor C. Nordyke, publisher)

Natural Science
» Winner: "Amy Greenwell Garden Ethnobotanical Guide to Native Hawaiian Plants," by Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, et al. (Bishop Museum Press)
» Honorable Mention: "Plants of the Canoe People: An Ethnobotanical Voyage through Polynesia," by W. Arthur Whistler (National Tropical Botanical Garden, publisher)

Cookbooks
» Winner: "Kau Kau: Cuisine & Culture in the Hawaiian Islands," by Arnold Hiura (Watermark)
» Honorable Mention: "What Hawai'i Likes to Eat -- Hana Hou," by Muriel Miura with Gay Wong (Mutual)

Text or Reference
» Winner: "Amy Greenwell Garden Ethnobotanical Guide to Native Hawaiian Plants," by Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, et al. (Bishop Museum Press)
» Honorable Mention: "Ethnobotany of Pohnpei: Plants, People, and Island Culture," edited by Michael J. Balick (University of Hawai'i Press)

Special Interest
» Winner: "Crochet Lei Making in Hawai'i 3," by Judy Dela Cruz (Mutual)
» Honorable Mention: "Daniel's Ocean Views," by Joyce Cassen and Norman and Sara Levey (Mutual)

Nonfiction
» Winner: "Ben: A Memoir, from Street Kid to Governor," by Benjamin J. Cayetano (Watermark)
» Honorable Mention: "Talking Hawai'i's Story: Oral Histories of an Island People," edited by Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Warren S. Nishimoto and Cynthia A. Oshiro (University of Hawai'i Press)

Design
» Winner: Barbara Pope, Barbara Pope Book Design, for "Kailua: In the Wisps of the Malanai Breeze,"
from the Kailua Historical Society
» Honorable Mention: Tiffany DeEtte Shafto for "Contemporary Hawai'i Woodworkers," by Tiffany DeEtte Shafto and Lynda McDaniel
(Contemporary Publications)

"Aloha from Beyond Hawai'i"
» Winner: "The Last Aloha," by Gaellen Quinn (Lost Coast Press)
» Honorable Mention: "Ben Norris: American Modernist, 1910-2006," by Ben Norris, edited by Margaret Norris Castrey (Copley Square Press)