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| These annual awards are for books with an implied readership under the age of eighteen, and are presented in five categories.
The first Australian Children's Book of the Year Award was made in 1946. At that time and until 1952, there was only one award. The Picture Book of the Year Award was established as a separate award in 1952. Until 1982, there was no division between Older and Younger Readers. The Eve Pownall Award for information books was presented by Eve Pownall's family in 1988, then by the Children's Book Council from 1993. The Early Childhood Award was introduced in 2001.
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2008 Book of the Year - Older Readers |
The Ghost's Child
Author: Sonya Hartnett
The sky was pitch, and gashed by lightning; loutish waves rose and slumped heavily as mudslides. At a moment when she was filled with desperation, Maddy opened her mouth and yelled for Feather. And half-expected him to a ... |
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7-10 Days
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Book of the Year - Younger Readers |
Dragon Moon
Author: Carole Wilkinson
The third and final book in one of the most awarded series in Australian children's publishing history. Age 9+. (SA: Year 6 - Year 9) |
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1-2 Days
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Book of the Year - Early Childhood |
Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley
Author: Aaron Blabey
Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley are different in every way. Pearly Barley loves death-defying missions, solving mysteries, talking loudly and is a terrible show off. Charlie parsley prefers reading in quiet places to ju ... |
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7-10 Days
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Picture Book of the Year |
Requiem for a Beast
Author: Matthew Ottley
We are largely defined by how we face our fears. A boy goes on a melancholy, often terrifying but ultimately life-affirming journey of self-discovery as a stockman in far North Queensland. In an exquisitely illustrated c ... |
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7-10 Days
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Eve Pownall Award for Information Books |
Parsley Rabbit's Book About Books
Author: Frances Watts
Takes the reader on a hilarious and stimulating journey through the world of books. An absolute treasure of a book for children from 3 - 7 years. |
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7-10 Days
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Crichton Award for New Illustrators |
Santa's Aussie Holiday
Author: Maria Farrer
Each year Santa likes to have some fun, a chance to get some rest and sun he spins his globe for inspiration and finds a perfect destination...Australia! Join Santa and his new Aussie mates as they travel around Australi ... |
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1-2 Days
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2007 Book of the Year - Older Readers |
Red Spikes
Author: Margo Lanagan
Ten electrifying new stories from Margo Lanagan, internationally acclaimed author of Black Juiceand White Time. 'Lanagan is in a class of her own.' Weekend Australian'The genius (not too strong a word) of Margo Lanagan i ... |
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7-10 Days
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Book of the Year - Younger Readers |
Being Bee
Author: Catherine Bateson
Since her mother died it had been just her, her dad, and her guinea pigs, Lulu and Fifi. A perfect non-nuclear family, but nothing stays the same forever. Ages 9-12. |
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7-10 Days
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Book of the Year - Early Childhood |
Amy and Louis
Author: Libby Gleeson
Amy and Louis live next door to each other, and their lives are closely intertwined. Theirs is a life rich in imagination. But when Amy's family move to another country, the children are separated and the colour drains o ... |
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7-10 Days
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Picture Book of the Year |
The Arrival
Author: Shaun Tan
The Arrival is a 128 page book of illustrations without words, a silent graphic novel. Through a series of connecting images, it tells the story of a migrant leaving his home, crossing an ocean to a strange new city and ... |
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7-10 Days
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Eve Pownall Award for Information Books |
Penguin Book - Birds in Suits, The
Author: Mark Norman
The story of all 17 penguin species, those that live in deserts and rocky landscapes as well as ice dwelling penguins. Ages 5+. |
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10-15 Days
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Crichton Award for New Illustrators |
When Elephants Lived in the Sea
Author: Jane Godwin & Vincent Agostino
Tells a story that traces the evolution of the elephant from its prehistoric marine beginnings to the water loving land animal we know today. Ages 8-12. |
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7-10 Days
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2006 Book of the Year - Older Readers |
The Story of Tom Brennan
Author: J.C. Burke
For seventeen-year-old Tom, life is about rugby, his mates and his family, who are well respected in their small country town. But a night of celebration changes his life forever. Tom's older brother, Daniel, starts a fi ... |
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1-2 Days
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Book of the Year - Younger Readers |
Helicopter Man
Author: Elizabeth Fensham
Pete's dad is being pursued by a secret organisation and both their lives are in danger. That's why they never stay in the same place long, and always stay out of sight. Pete knows he leads an unusual life for a twelve y ... |
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7-10 Days
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Book of the Year - Early Childhood |
Annie's Chair
Author: Deborah Niland
Annie loves her chair. She can curl up and read her books or watch TV, play with her toys or hide, be a fairy queen or bounce. No one is allowed on Annie's chair. Not Mum, not Dad and definitely not her brother Jack. |
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7-10 Days
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Picture Book of the Year |
Short and Incredibly Happy Life
Author: Colin Thompson
Human beings live for quite a long time and for a lot of that time we are not happy. We want to be taller, shorter, fatter, thinner, older and younger. Rats live for quite a short time and for most of that time they are ... |
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7-10 Days
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Eve Pownall Award for Information Books |
Scarecrow Army
Author: Leon Davidson
Category: Childrens Non Fiction - History
On 25 April 1915, thousands of Australians and New Zealanders landed at an unnamed cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula. They had come to fight the Turks. They thought the battle would be over in three days, but months later ... |
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10-15 Days
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2005 Book of the Year - Older Readers |
The Running Man
Author: Michael Gerard Bauer
Fourteen-year-old Joseph is drawing a portrait of his silent, brooding neighbour, Vietnam War veteran Tom Leighton. By seeing beyond the rumours and gossip that surround Tom, Joseph's own horror of the running man recede ... |
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7-10 Days
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Book of the Year - Younger Readers |
The Silver Donkey
Author: Sonya Hartnett
One bright spring morning in the woods of France, a soldier, blinded by the war, is found by a little girl named Coco, and her older sister Marcelle. In return for their kindness, the soldier tells the sisters marvellous ... |
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7-10 Days
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Book of the Year - Early Childhood |
Where is the Green Sheep?
Author: Mem Fox
Wonderful characters and wonderfully illustrated. 2005 Children's Book of the Year for Early Childhood. Ages 3+. |
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7-10 Days
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Picture Book of the Year |
Are We There Yet?
Author: Alison Lester
The year I turned eight, Mum and Dad took us on a trip around Australia. Luke, Billy and I missed school for the whole winter term. Join Grace and her family on their adventurous and sometimes funny expedition. A warm, h ... |
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7-10 Days
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Eve Pownall Award for Information Books |
To the Moon and Back
Author: Jackie French & Bryan Sullivan
When man took the first step on the moon it was a bunch of Australian technicians who tracked the spacecraft and sent the first television pictures to the world. They were from Honeysuckle Creek in the ACT. This is their ... |
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7-10 Days
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2004 Book of the Year - Older Readers |
Saving Francesca
Author: Melina Marchetta
Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in Year Eleven at an all boys school that has just begun accepting girls. She still misses her friends and to make things worse her mother has had a breakdown. |
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7-10 Days
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Book of the Year - Younger Readers |
Dragonkeeper
Author: Carole Wilkinson
Ancient China, Han Dynasty. A slave girl saves the life of an ageing dragon and escapes her brutal master. Pursued by a ruthless dragon hunter, the girl and the dragon cross China, carrying with them a mysterious stone t ... |
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10-15 Days
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Book of the Year - Early Childhood |
Grandpa and Thomas
Author: Pamela Allen
Thomas and Grandpa go the beach. It is an Australian summer. The sun is shining, the gulls are screeching and the sea is singing. Together they build a sandcastle, they have a picnic and they splash in the water. Then at ... |
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7-10 Days
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Picture Book of the Year |
Cat and Fish
Author: Joan Grant
Cat and Fish discover each other one night and spark a most unlikely friendship. As they teach each other about the worlds of the land and the sea, they find they share a common sense of adventure. Through mazes, under h ... |
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7-10 Days
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Eve Pownall Award for Information Books |
Animal Architects
Author: John Nicholson
Category: Childrens Non Fiction - Animals
A wombat scoops and sweeps with powerful paws to dig an underground maze.A titmouse winds and weaves grasses to build a sturdy padded nest...with a drawbridge.Animal Architectsshows creatures that tunnel, bore wood, weav ... |
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7-10 Days
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2003 Book of the Year - Older Readers |
The Messenger
Author: Markus Zusak
Meet Ed Kennedy, cab-driving prodigy, pathetic card player, and useless at sex (self-proclaimed). His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence - until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery! That's when the first ... |
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7-10 Days
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Book of the Year - Younger Readers |
Rain May & Captain Daniel
Author: Catherine Bateson
A story that zooms light years across the universe: a new town, a dream home and a successful life are what Rain May and her Mum discover together. Ages 9+ |
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7-10 Days
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Book of the Year - Early Childhood |
A Year on Our Farm
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7-10 Days
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Picture Book of the Year |
In Flanders Fields
Author: Norman Jorgensen & Brian Harrison-Lever
Tells the story of a young homesick soldier who risks his life to cross No-Man's-Land and rescue a robin stuck on the barbed wire that separates the opposing armies. An eloquent counterpoint to the senselessness and inhu ... |
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7-10 Days
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2002 Book of the Year - Older Readers |
Forest
Author: Sonya Hartnett
In the tradition of Watership Down and Animal Farm, this is a powerful literary novel for all ages that charts the perilous journey of a dumped domestic cat trying to find his way home through the Australian forest. 2002 ... |
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7-10 Days
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Book of the Year - Younger Readers |
My Dog
Author: John Heffernan
Alija's only companion is his dog, but his optimism and courage in the face of adversity and loneliness is touching and inspiring. This extraordinary book deals with the tragedy of Bosnia and the reality of ethnic cleans ... |
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7-10 Days
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Book of the Year - Early Childhood |
Let's Get a Pup!
Author: Bob Graham
One morning Kate bursts into her parents' bedroom. Let's get a pup! she cries. They all set off to the rescue centre where they see dogs of all shapes and sizes. Kate knows which one she wants the second she sees him. Sm ... |
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10-15 Days
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Eve Pownall Award for Information Books |
The Papunya School Book of Country and History
Author: Nada Wheatley
This book tells the story of how Anangu from five different language groups came to live together at Papunya. From the time of first contacts with explorers, missionaries and pastoralists, through to the Papunya art move ... |
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7-10 Days
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2001 Book of the Year - Older Readers |
Wolf on the Fold
Author: Judith Clarke
In 1935 Kenny is fourteen. It's the Great Depression and he's off to find work. If he doesn't find a job they might split up the family and send his sister away. In 1959 Kenny's daughter Frances is seven. She stays awake ... |
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7-10 Days
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Book of the Year - Younger Readers |
Two Hands Together
Author: Diana Kidd
Lucy and her younger brother Jake are proud of their father. They love the stories he tells about his days as a football player. He's still got the trophies he won on a shelf in his study. The trophy that Lucy likes best ... |
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7-10 Days
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Book of the Year - Early Childhood |
You'LL Wake the Baby
Author: Catherine Jinks
It's a wet day, and Andy and Annie have no choice but to play inside. But they are making too much noise! Can they find a game that won't wake the baby? For ages 2+. CBCA Book of the Year: Early Childhood, 2001. |
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7-10 Days
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Picture Book of the Year |
Fox
Author: Margaret Wild
Margaret Wild tells the story of Dog and Magpie, who are friends and companions until Fox tempts Magpie away and then abandons her in the desert. It's a stark, uncompromising and deeply moving story, a fable that dramati ... |
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7-10 Days
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2000 Book of the Year - Older Readers |
48 Shades of Brown
Author: Nick Earls
Dan's sixteen, about to start his final year at school, and his parents have gone overseas for a year. Jacq's twenty-two, drops by uni for the occasional class, and plays in a rock band that might be called Crimplene. Aw ... |
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7-10 Days
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Book of the Year - Younger Readers |
Hitler's Daughter
Author: Jackie French
Three children in country Australia meet at the bus stop every morning and tell each other stories. This one is about Hitler's Daughter and the life that she leads in Nazi Germany. The story goes back and forth from the ... |
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7-10 Days
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Picture Book of the Year |
Jenny Angel
Author: Margaret Wild
Jenny Angel firmly believes that she is her brother's guardian angel. He is very ill and she is sure that if she keeps watch over him she can save his life. Their mother knows that nothing can save him and they share his ... |
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7-10 Days
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