Yep, it’s that time of year again. When the best books published in Australia for kids and teens are judged.

Check out the shortlist below. Drop into the library to collect your free activity booklet, and place free holds on any of the shortlisted titles.

The winners of all the categories will be announced 1pm Friday 15th August.

THE CHILDREN’S BOOK COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA AWARDS:

Book of the Year: Older Readers (NB: These books are for mature readers)
Pharaoh: the boy who conquered the Nile / Jackie French
The Ghost’s Child / Sonya Hartnett
Marty’s Shadow / John Heffernan
Love like Water / Meme McDonald
Black Water / David Metzenthen
Leaving Barrumbi / Leonie Norrington 

Book of the Year: Younger Readers

Sixth Grade Style Queen (not!) / Sherryl Clark & Elissa Christian
The Shaggy Gully Times / Jackie French & Bruce Whatley
Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp / Odo Hirsch
Winning the World Cup / David Metzenthen & Stephen Axelsen
The Key to Rondo / Emily Rodda
Dragon Moon / Carole Wilkinson 

Book of the Year: Early Childhood

Shhh! Little Mouse / Pamela Allen
Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley / Aaron Blabey
Cat / Mike Dumbleton & Craig Smith
The Trouble with Dogs! / Bob Graham
The Night Garden / Elise Hurst
Lucy Goosey / Margaret Wild & Ann James 
 

Picture Book of the Year

(Some of these picture books may be for mature readers).

The Peasant Prince / Anne Spudvilas & Li Cunxin,
The Island / Armin Greder
Ziba came on a Boat / Robert Ingpen & Liz Lofthouse
You and Me: Our Place / Dee Huxley & Leonie Norrington
Requiem for a Beast / Matt Ottley
Dust / Colin Thompson & 13 other illustrators

 Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
Australia’s Deadly and Dangerous Animals / Michael Cermak
Girl Stuff: Your Full-on guide to the Teen Years / Kaz Cooke
Kokoda Track: 101 Days / Peter Macinnis
The Antarctica Book: Living in the Freezer / Mark Norman
Parsley Rabbit’s Book about Books / Frances Watts

Ned Kelly’s Jerilderie Letter / Carole Wilkinson

Children’s Book Week runs from the 16th - 22nd August. For more information visit the Children’s Book Council of Australia website.

The Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards are listed below.

You can place a free hold on any of these items by asking at the Info Desk or giving us a call on 9936 8400.

Hurrah for free holds!

Book of the Year: Older Readers

(NB: These books are for mature readers)

Don’t Call Me Ishmael! / Michael Gerard Bauer

One Whole and Perfect Day / Judith Clarke

Monster Blood Tattoo: Book One Foundling / D. M. Cornish

The Red Shoe / Ursula Dubosarsky

 Red Spikes / Margo Lanagan  (Winner!)

 My Big Birkett / Lisa Shanahan

Book of the Year: Younger Readers

Being Bee / Catherine Bateson (Winner!)

The Tuckshop Kid / Pat Flynn & Tom Jellett

Macbeth and Son / Jackie French

The Cat on the Mat is Flat / Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton

Bird & Sugar Boy / Sofie Laguna

Layla, Queen of Hearts / Glenda Millard & Stephen Michael King  

 

Book of the Year: Early Childhood

Grandpa and Thomas and theGreen Umbrella / Pamela Allen

Doodledum Dancing / Meredith Costain & Pamela Allen

Ella Kazoo Will Not Brush HerHair / Lee Fox & Cathy Wilcox

Amy & Louis / Libby Gleeson & Freya Blackwoood (Winner!)

Eight / Lyn Lee & Kim Gamble

Chatterbox / Margaret Wild & Deborah Niland

 

Picture Book of the Year

Some of these picture books may be for mature readers.

Brian Banana Duck Sunshine Yellow / Chris McKimmie

Home / Narelle Oliver

Water Witcher / Jan Ormerod

The Rainbirds / Sally Rippin & David Metzenthen

Woolvs in the Sitee / Anne Spudvilas & Margaret Wild

The Arrival / Shaun Tan (Winner!)

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

Red Haze: Australians & New Zealanders in Vietnam / Leon Davidson

Queenie: One Elephant’s Story / Corinne Fenton & Peter Gouldthorpe

Amazing Facts about Australian Dinosaurs / Scott Hocknull & Alex Cook

All Cats have Asperger Syndrome / Kathy Hoopmann

The Penguin Book: Birds in Suits / Mark Norman (Winner!)

Leaf Litter / Rachel Tonkin 

 

Crichton Award for New Illustrators

When elephants lived in the sea / Vincent Agostino (Winner!)

Automaton / Aaron Hill & Jane Godwin

Clancy the Courageous Cow / Lachie Hume & Gary Crew

…and it’s free!

Stanton Library’s free wireless internet access has been going successfully on the Ground floor and Level 1 for a while.

It’s now also available throughout the Lower Ground Floor – including the group and quiet study areas.Bring in your wireless enabled laptop and grab a password from the Info Desk next time you’re in.