Bilby Award Winners

The Bilby Award is awarded annually by the Queensland's Branch of the Children's Book Council Awards.cite web |title= What are the BILBY awards? |publisher= Children's Book Council of Australia (Qld Branch) Inc |url= http://www.pa.ash.org.au/cbc/bilbyawards/deliver/content.asp?pid=7091 |accessdate= 2007-08-01]

The name of the award, The Bilby, is an acronym of "Books I Love Best Yearly". ] The award is a children's choice award. Each year Queensland students are asked to nominate their favourite book, and only nominations for the winners from the last two years are excluded. The books in this shortlist are grouped into the three age level categories and students are encouraged to read books from the list and chose their favourite title. The votes are counted and winners for the categories are announced in September on International Literacy Day.

To see the history of the CBCA and other CBCA Awards, see:" List of CBCA Awards

Award Category and Description

This award is a children's choice awards. The books that collect the most votes by Queensland school children are nominated as the winners in each age level category. ]

List of Bilby Award Winners

Early Readers Award

Before 2001 called "Early Childhood"(1999 & 2000), "Picture Book" (1998 &1997) and "Read Alone " (1990 to 1996) awards.

*1990 - "Superfudge" by Judy Blume
*1991 - "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
*1992 - "Unreal!" by Paul Jennings
*1993 - "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
*1994 - "Undone" by Paul Jennings
*1995 - "The Lion King" by Gina Ingoglio
*1996 - "Where's Wally?" by Martin Handford
*1997 - "Bamboozled" by David Legge
*1998 - "The Midnight Gang" by Margaret Wild and Ann James
*1999 - "Gasp!" by Terry Denton
*2000 - "Grandad's Teeth" by Rod Clement
*2001 - "Where's Wally?" by Martin Handford
*2002 - "Buffy - An Adventure Story" by Bob Graham
*2003 - "The Very Blue Thingamajig" by Narelle Oliver
*2004 - "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss
*2005 - "Old Tom's Holiday" by Leigh Hobb
*2006 - "Baby Boomsticks" by Margaret Wild (illustrated by David Legge)

Younger Readers

Before 1997 called "Read Aloud Award"

*1990 - "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
*1991 - "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
*1992 - "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
*1993 - "Blabbermouth" by Morris Gleitzman
*1994 - "Fantastic Mr Fox" by Roald Dahl
*1995 - "The Pagemaster" by David Kirschner
*1996 - "When the Wind Changed" by Ruth Park (illustrated by Deborah Niland)
*1997 - "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
*1998 - "Polar the Titanic Bear" by Daisy Corning Stone Spedder (illustrated by Laurie McGaw)
*1999 - "Detective Donut and the Wild Goose Chase" by Bruce Whatley and R Smith
*2000 - "Just Stupid!" by Andy Griffiths
*2001 - "Harry Potter Series" by J K Rowling
*2002 - "Just Crazy!" by Andy Griffiths
*2003 - "The Saddle Club series" by Bonnie Bryant
*2004 - "Just Disgusting" by Andy Griffiths
*2005 - "The Bad Book" by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
*2006 - "Just Crazy!" by Andy Griffiths (illustrated by Terry Denton)

Read Australia Award

*1994 - "Midnite" by Randolph Stow
*1995 - "The Watertower" by Gary Crew (illustrated by Steven Woolman)
*1996 - "The Gizmo" by Paul Jennings

Older Reader Award

*1990 - "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/4" by Sue Townsend
*1991 - "The Outsiders" - S. E. Hinton
*1992 - "Where's Wally?" by Martin Handford
*1993 - "Flowers in the Attic" by V. C. Andrews
*1995 - "Looking for Alibrandi" by Melina Marchetta
*1996 - "Jurassic Park" by Michael Crichton
*1997 - "The Hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien
*1998 - "Tomorrow when the war began" by John Marsden
*1999 - "Bumface" by Morris Gleitzman
*2000 - "Looking for Alibrandi" by Melina Marchetta
*2001 - "Harry Potter Series" by J. K. Rowling
*2002 - "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien
*2003 - "Two of a Kind series about Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen" - by various authors
*2004 - "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" by J. K. Rowling
*2005 - "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" by J. K. Rowling
*2006 - "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J. K. Rowling

ee also

* List of Australian literary awards

Notes

References

* [http://www.pa.ash.org.au/cbc/bilbyawards/deliver/content.asp?pid=7091 Bilby Award website]
* [http://www.cbc.org.au/awards.htm CBCA Awards]