Quick picks: our top recommendations
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Below are 16 titles in total — we’ve highlighted our 6 favourites above. Each one links straight through to Amazon AU.
Congratulations to the authors, illustrators and publishers involved in creating the following books which have won or received honour in the 2011 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards.
Early Childhood (Intended for children in the pre-reading to early reading stages)
Winner:
Maudie and Bear
Illustrator: Freya Blackwood
ISBN:978-1921541407
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Hare (Hardie Grant Egmont), October 2010
Honour:
The Tall Man and the Twelve Babies
Author: Tom Niland Champion and Kilmeny Niland
Illustrator: Deborah Niland
ISBN:978-1742371153
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Allen & Unwin, November 2010
Look See, Look At Me
Author: Leonie Norrington
Illustrator: Dee Huxley
ISBN:978-1741758832
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Allen & Unwin, November 2009
Young Readers (Intended for independent younger readers.)
Winner:
The Red Wind
Author: Isobelle Carmody
ISBN:978-0670074037
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking, June 2010
Honour:
The Red Wind
Author: Isobelle Carmody
ISBN:978-0670074037
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking, June 2010
Honour:
Just a Dog
Author: Michael Gerard Bauer
ISBN:978-1862918870
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Omnibus Books, September 2010
Violet Mackerel
Author: Anna Branford
Illustrator: Sarah Davis
ISBN:978-1921529184
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Walker Books Australia, April 2011
Picture Book (Intended for an audience ranging from birth to 18 years range-Some books may be for mature readers)
Winner:
Mirror
Author/Illustrator:Jeannie Baker
ISBN: 978-1406309140
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd, November 2010
Hamlet
Author/Illustrator: Nicki Greenberg
ISBN:978-1741756425
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Allen & Unwin, October 2010
Honour:
Why I Love Australia
Author and Illustrator: Bronwyn Bancroft
ISBN:978-1921541780
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Hare Books (Hardie Grant Egmont), May 2010
My Uncle’s Donkey
Author/Illustrator: Tohby Riddle
ISBN:978-0670040339
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking, June 2010
Older readers (These books are for mature readers)
Winner:
The Midnight Zoo
Author: Sonya Hartnett
ISBN:978-0670074051
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Viking Australia, August 2010
Honour:
Graffiti Moon
Author: Cath Crowley
ISBN:978-0330425780
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia, August 2010
The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher
Author: Doug MacLeod
ISBN:978-0143203919
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Australia, June 2010
Eve Pownall Award for Information Book (Intended for an audience ranging from birth to 18 years. (Some books may be for mature readers)
Winner:
The Return of the Word Spy
Author: Ursula Dubosarsky
Illustrator: Tohby Riddle
ISBN:978-0670073542
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Viking Australia, April 2010
Honour:
Drawn From the Heart
Author: Ron Brooks
ISBN:978-1742371559
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Allen & Unwin, November 2010
Our World
Arm Point Remote Community School One
ISBN:978-1921248238
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Magabala Books, October 2010
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