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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.
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2008 Book of the Year - Older Readers Shortlist |
Pharaoh
Author: Jackie French
Prince Narmer, first in line of succession, meets an oracle who changes his life. Ousted from the line by a disfiguring struggle with a crocodile, Narmer travels, learning much about faraway lands and his place in the wo ... |
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Book of the Year - Older Readers Shortlist |
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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Marty's Shadow
Author: John Heffernan
He had to run. To escape the voices. They weren't there yet, but they were coming. He could feel them. If he ran hard and fast enough he might be able to escape them a little longer. If he pushed himself until his thighs ... |
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Love Like Water
Author: Meme McDonald
Category: Fiction - Literary General
More than a love story, this is a bold, confronting book about friendship, love, sex and identity at the heart of Australia, where black and white, bush and city collide. Ages 16+. |
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Black Water
Author: David Metzenthen
Beautifully written and brilliantly told, this is the epic story of two boys' struggle to make their way in a difficult world. Ages 13+. |
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7-10 Days
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Barrumbi Kids: Book 3
Author: Leonie Norrington
Dale stands up hanging onto the wire cage of the Toyota and see his home, Long Hole, shrinking away. The rusty iron roofs of the old people's houses at the bottom camp are already disappearing into the red soil. And sudd ... |
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Book of the Year - Younger Readers Shortlist |
Sixth Grade Style Queen (not!)
Author: Sherryl Clark
I don't fit in my family or at school. I have friends, but sometimes even they think I'm weird. Some days the whole world just looks wrong to me. Ages 10+. |
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10-15 Days
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Book of the Year - Younger Readers Shortlist |
The Shaggy Gully Times
Author: Jackie French
Welcome, readers, to the Daggy Gully Limes, the punniest newspaper you'll ever read. Ages 7+. |
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7-10 Days
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Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp
Author: Odo Hirsch
A funny, touching, thought-provoking novel, peopled with memorable characters and pulsing with ideas, from the inimitable author of Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman and Hazel Green. Ages 8- 12. (SA: Year 6 - ... |
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Winning the World Cup
Author: David Metzenthen
Behind Marco's house there is a paddock. Behind Nam's house there is a paddock, too and behind Steffi's and Carlo's and Mitch's houses. And in this huge paddock, just about every day, the friends play soccer for the Worl ... |
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Key to Rondo
Author: Emily Rodda
The day Leo Zifkak became the owner of the music box, his life changed forever. Leo didn't know this at the time. His heart didn't miss a beat as he took the box calmly from his mother and put it on his desk. He had no i ... |
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7-10 Days
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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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Book of the Year - Early Childhood Shortlist |
Shhh! Little Mouse
Author: Pamela Allen
Will the little grey mouse find something to eat, or will he wake the sleeping cat? A picture book for the very young. Ages 2+. (SA: Reception - Year 2). |
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10-15 Days
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Book of the Year - Early Childhood Shortlist |
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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Cat
Author: Mike Dumbleton & Craig Smith
Share a day with Cat and find out how exciting, exhausting and downright dangerous life can be! Age 3+. |
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10-15 Days
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The Trouble with Dogs
Author: Bob Graham
Brought home from the rescue centre, Dave is small and sparky and gets all excited. To Kate, he's everything a pup should be. The trouble is, he sometimes gets too excited. He jumps uninvited onto guests' laps, runs down ... |
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10-15 Days
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The Night Garden
Author: Elise Hurst
One night while Sally is staying at her grandmother's old house, she discovers a mystical garden in the backyard. Transformed from neat hedges and flower beds, to twisted shapes and creatures, the garden is now a place f ... |
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10-15 Days
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Lucy Goosey
Author: Margaret Wild
Category: Childrens Fiction - Animals Ducks, Geese, Etc.
Lucy Goosey has been playing happily in the same pond all her life. When the time comes to fly away, she is so terrified of getting lost in the huge sky that she refuses to leave with the others. For ages 2- 5. Australia ... |
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10-15 Days
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Picture Book of the Year Shortlist |
The Peasant Prince
Author: Li Cunxin
Category: True Stories - General
This true story of a poor Chinese peasant boy who, plucked unsuspectingly at the age of ten from millions of others across the land to be trained as a ballet dancer, is a fairytale that has already captivated many childr ... |
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7-10 Days
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Picture Book of the Year Shortlist |
The Island
Author: Armin Greder
In the morning the people of the island found a man sitting on the shore, there where fate and the ocean currents had set him and his frail raft in the night. When he saw them coming towards him, he rose to his feet. He ... |
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10-15 Days
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Ziba Came on a Boat
Author: Armin Greder & Robert Ingpen Liz Lofthouse
A beautiful, lyrical picture book about a little girl whose family has lost everything and their brave journey to make a new life. Ages 6+. (SA: Year 3 - Year 5). |
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10-15 Days
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You and Me
Author: Leonie Norrington
Every morning Uncle Tobias goes fishing. Sometimes he is joined by two little boys. Together they spend the day moving from one place to another - from the beach to the bridge, to the outskirts of the city. Ages 2+. Aust ... |
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7-10 Days
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Requiem for a Beast
Author: Matthew Ottley
A boy goes on a journey of self-discovery as a stockman in Far North Queensland. In an exquisitely illustrated collage of memory and dreamscape, the boy confronts a huge, rogue bull and realizes he must acknowledge the e ... |
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10-15 Days
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Dust
Author: Colin Thompson
In response to the stark reality of children around the world dying from starvation, and from natural disasters over which we have no control, thirteen internationally famous artists created a book, the royalties earned ... |
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Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Shortlist |
Australia's Deadly and Dangerous Animals
Author: Steve Parish
Children can have all the facts at their fingertips with the Steve Parish Fact File collection! Expert authors have compiled the most up-to-date facts and figures to provide a detailed overview of Australia's most intere ... |
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Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Shortlist |
Girl Stuff
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7-10 Days
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Kokoda Track
Author: Peter Macinnis
An extraordinary story of a small force defeating a much larger one. It is the tale of 550 men of the 39th Militia Battalion. In eight short and brutal weeks, these soldiers slowed, and eventually stopped the advance of ... |
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The Antarctica Book
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Parsley Rabbit's Book About Books
Author: Frances Watts & David Legge
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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Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter
Author: Carole Wilkinson & Ned Kelly
Category: True Stories - General
Ned Kelly's stream of consciousness, with all of its fabulous invective and metaphor, has been edited by Kelly expert Carole Wilkinson. Carole has pruned and shaped his words to make them easily readable for anyone from ... |
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Crichton Award for New Illustrators Shortlist |
The Crow and the Waterhole
Author: Ambelin Kwaymullina
There was once a crow that lived in a tree by a waterhole. Each morning, she stared into the water, and saw another crow staring back. Crow thought Crow-in-the-waterhole was the most wonderful bird she had ever seen. Fin ... |
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Crichton Award for New Illustrators Shortlist |
The Empty City
Author: David Megarrity
What would you do if you were the only one in a deserted city? Where would you go, and what would you do? This book taps into a fantasy that many of us have had as children - to be allowed to explore, unhindered, the ord ... |
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7-10 Days
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Ock Von Fiend
Author: Luke Edwards
Ock von Fiend lives on the outskirts of town and doesn't have many friends because, well, he's a vampire who tends to want to bite people. Luckily he has his teddy, Van Munster, currently possessed, the neighbourhood wer ... |
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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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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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The World According to Warren
Author: Silvey Craig
Warren is a guide dog with an inflated ego. He has always known that he was destined for great things. He was born with a good heart. He was going to help people. A Working Dog, with big Responsibilities . . . Warren w ... |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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2005 Younger Readers: Winner |
The Silver Donkey
Author: Sonya Hartnett
Set in rural France during WWI, three children share a secret that is almost too big to hold. A blinded soldier - a deserter - is hiding in their woods. How can they help him cross the Channel and get back to England and ... |
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Picture Book: Winner |
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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Older Readers: Winner |
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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Information Book: Winner |
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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Younger Readers: Winner |
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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Picture Book: Winner |
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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Older Readers: Winner |
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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Information Book: Winner |
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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Early Childhood: Winner |
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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