Book of the Year: Older Readers
The Ghost’s Child / Sonya Hartnett
Book of the Year: Younger Readers
Dragon Moon / Carole Wilkinson
Picture Book of the Year
Requiem for a Beast / Matt Ottley
Check out the other category winners and the fantastic honourable mentions at http://cbca.org.au
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.
Here’s a list of the 20 most re-read books in the UK. (From www.costabookawards.com)
What books do you re-read? Do you think the ones in this list deserve re-reading?
From the totally fabulash youth literature site ‘Inside a Dog’ comes… The Inkys!
As the Centre for Youth Literature folks say:
“3000 votes were cast by young people from Australia and internationally to decide the inaugural Inky Awards, Australia’s first teenage choice bookprize. The winners were announced at the State Library Victoria last night.”
There are two awards: the Golden Inky for an Australian book, and theSilver Inky for an International book.
And the winners are…
Golden Inky
Notes from the Teenage Underground, by Simmone Howell
Silver Inky
Looking for Alaska, by John Green
Might be worth a read?
You liked Harry Potter but you don’t know where to go next?
Try The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper.
The movie based on the second book is coming out on October 5.
But read the series first – it’s definitely worth it.
The Dark is Rising was a 1974 Newbery Honour book, and The Grey King won the 1976 Newbery Medal.
The order of the series is:
Over Sea Under Stone
The Dark is Rising
Greenwitch
The Grey King
Silver on the Tree
Though if you just want to read one to see what the fuss is about – try Greenwitch.
And another reason to love the series… The surname of the hero in the movie The Seeker: The Dark is Rising is Stanton.
No, really!
(Image Copyright; Twentieth Century Fox & Walden Media, 2007)