- Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers
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Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers Awarded for Excellence in Australian high school books Presented by Children's Book Council of Australia Country Australia First awarded 1946 Official website http://cbca.org.au/index.htm The Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers has been presented annually since 1946 by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA). Note: from 1946 to 1986 this award was known as "Book of the Year".
The Award "will be made to outstanding books of fiction, drama, or poetry which require of the reader a degree of maturity to appreciate the topics, themes and scope of emotional involvement. Generally, books in this category will be appropriate in style and content for readers in their secondary years of schooling."[1]
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Award winners
2000s
Year Author Title Publisher 2009 Shaun Tan Tales from Outer Suburbia Allen and Unwin 2008 Sonya Hartnett The Ghost's Child Viking Books 2007 Margo Lanagan Red Spikes Allen and Unwin 2006 J.C. Burke The Story of Tom Brennan Random House 2005 Michael Gerard Bauer The Running Man Omnibus Books 2004 Melina Marchetta Saving Francesca Viking Books 2003 Markus Zusak The Messenger Macmillan Publishers 2002 Sonya Hartnett Forest Viking Books 2001 Judith Clarke Wolf on the Fold Allen and Unwin 2000 Nick Earls 48 Shades of Brown Penguin Books 1990s
Year Author Title Publisher 1999 Phillip Gwynne Deadly, Unna? Penguin Books 1998 Catherine Jinks Eye To Eye Puffin Books 1997 James Moloney A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove University of Queensland Press 1996 Catherine Jinks Pagan's Vows Omnibus Books 1995 Gillian Rubinstein Foxspell Hyland House 1994 Isobelle Carmody The Gathering Penguin Books 1993 Melina Marchetta Looking for Alibrandi Puffin Books 1992 Eleanor Nilsson The House Guest Viking Books 1991 Gary Crew Strange Objects Heinemann 1990 Robin Klein Came Back to Show You I Could Fly Viking Books 1980s
Year Author Title Publisher 1989 Gillian Rubinstein Beyond the Labyrinth Hyland House 1988 John Marsden So Much to Tell You Joy Street Books 1987 Simon French All We Know Angus and Robertson 1986 Thurley Fowler The Green Wind Rigby 1985 James Aldridge The True Story of Lilli Stubeck Hyland House 1984 Patricia Wrightson A Little Fear Hutchinson 1983 Victor Kelleher Master of the Grove Kestrel Books 1982 Colin Thiele The Valley Between Opal Books 1981 Ruth Park Playing Beatie Bow Nelson Books 1980 Lee Harding Displaced Person Hyland House 1970s
Year Author Title Publisher 1979 Ruth Manley, illustrated by Marianne Yamaguchi The Plum-Rain Scroll Hodder and Stoughton 1978 Patricia Wrightson The Ice is Coming Hutchinson 1977 Eleanor Spence, illustrated by Malcolm Green The October Child Oxford University Press 1976 Ivan Southall Fly West Angus and Robertson 1975 No award 1974 Patricia Wrightson The Nargun and the Stars Hutchinson 1973 Noreen Shelley, illustrated by Robert Micklewright Family at The Lookout Oxford University Press 1972 H. F. Brinsmead Longtime Passing Angus and Robertson 1971 Ivan Southall Bread and Honey Angus and Robertson 1970 Annette Macarthur-Onslow Uhu Ure Smith 1960s
Year Author Title Publisher 1969 Margaret Balderson, illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus When Jays Fly to Barbmo Oxford University Press 1968 Ivan Southall, illustrated by Jennifer Tuckwell To the Wild Sky Angus and Robertson 1967 Mavis Thorpe Clark, and illustrated by Genevieve Melrose The Min-Min Lansdowne Press 1966 Ivan Southall, illustrated by Clem Seale Ash Road Angus and Robertson 1965 H. F. Brinsmead, illustrated by Annette Macarthur-Onslow Pastures of the Blue Crane Oxford University Press 1964 Eleanor Spence, illustrated by Geraldine Spence The Green Laurel Oxford University Press 1963 Joan Phipson, illustrated by Margaret Horder The Family Conspiracy Constable 1962 L. H. Evers The Racketty Street Gang Hodder & Stoughton 1961 Nan Chauncy, illustrated by Brian Wildsmith Tangara Oxford University Press 1960 Kylie Tennant, illustrated by Clem Seale All the Proud Tribesmen Macmillan 1950s
Year Author Title Publisher 1959 Nan Chauncy, illustrated by Margaret Horder Devil's Hill Oxford University Press 1958 Nan Chauncy Tiger in the Bush Oxford University Press 1957 Enid Moodie-Heddle (ed.), illustrated by Nancy Parker The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales Longmans Green 1956 Patricia Wrightson, illustrated by Margaret Horder The Crooked Snake Angus and Robertson 1955 Norman B. Tindale & Lindsay, Harold Arthur Lindsay, illustrated by Madeleine Boyce
The First Walkabout Longmans Green 1954 K. Langloh Parker, edited by Henrietta Drake-Brockman, illustrated by Elizabeth Durack
Australian Legendary Tales Angus and Robertson 1953 Joan Phipson, illustrated by Margaret Horder Good Luck to the Rider Angus and Robertson 1952 Eve Pownall, illustrated by Margaret Senior The Australia Book John Sands 1951 Ruth C. Williams, illustrated by Rhys Williams Verity of Sydney Town Angus and Robertson 1950 Alan J. Villiers, illustrated by Charles Pont Whalers of the Midnight Sun Angus and Robertson 1940s
Year Author Title Publisher 1949 No competition 1948 Frank Hurley Shackleton's Argonauts: A Saga of the Antarctic Icepacks Angus and Robertson 1947 No award 1946 Leslie Rees, illustrated by Walter Cunningham The Story of Karrawingi the Emu John Sands See also
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Categories:- Australian children's literary awards
- Awards established in 1982
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