This year's shortlists for the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year awards have been announced. The shortlist for each category is:
Older Readers
* Monster Blood Tattoo Book 2: Lamplighter (D M CCornish, Omnibus)
* Into White Silence (Anthony Eaton, Woolshed Press)
* A Rose for the Anzac Boys (Jackie French, Angus & Robertson)
* Finnikin of the Rock (Melina Marchetta, Viking)
* Kill the Possum (James Moloney, Penguin)
* Tales From Outer Suburbia (Shaun Tan, A&U)
Younger Readers
* The Wish Pony (Catherine Bateson, Woolshed Press)
* Polar Boy (Sandy Fussell, Walker Books)
* Then (Morris Gleitzman, Viking)
* Audrey of the Outback (Christine Harris, illus by Ann James, Little Hare)
* Perry Angel's Suitcase (Glenda Millard, illus by Stephen Michael King, ABC Books)
* The Wizard of Rondo (Emily Rodda, Omnibus)
Early Childhood
* How to Heal a Broken Wing (Bob Graham, Walker Books)
* Leaf (Stephen Michael King, Scholastic)
* Special Kev (Chris McKimmie, A&U)
* Applesauce and the Christmas Miracle (Glenda Millard, illus by Stephen Michael King, ABC Books)
* Tom Tom (Rosemary Sullivan, illus by Dee Huxley, Working Title Press)
* Puffling (Margaret Wild, illus by Julie Vivas, Omnibus)
Picture Book of the Year
* Sunday Chutney (Aaron Blabey, Viking)
* Collecting Colour (Kylie Dunstan, Lothian)
* Home and Away (Matt Ottley, written by John Marsden, Lothian)
* Nobody Owns the Moon (Tohby Riddle, Viking)
* Captain Congo and the Crocodile King (Greg Holfield, written by Ruth Starke, Working Title Press)
* The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness (Colin Thompson, Random House)
Eve Pownall Award for Information Book of the Year
* The Word Spy (Ursula Dubosarsky, Viking)
* Simpson and his Donkey (Mark Greenwood, illus France Lessac, Walker Books)
* Alive in the Death Zone (Lincoln Hall, Random House)
* Chicken: The Story of Chicken in Australia (Catriona Nicholls & Janet Paterson, illus by Rod Waller, Kondinin Group)
* Tuart Dwellers (Jan Ramage, illus by Ellen Hickman, Department of Environment and Conservation, WA)
* Every Picture Tells a Story: Adventures in Australian Art (John Ross & Anna Booth, Australia).
The winners of the awards will be announced on Friday 21 August, at the beginning of Children's Book Week, which runs from 22 to 28 August, 2009, under the them ‘Book Safari'.
CBCA 2009
posted in News on 2009-08-21