Australian Children's Book of the Year Award

Older Readers

Children's Book Council of Australia.

Established 1946. Presented annually in August for a book written by an Australian, or a resident of Australia.

1998 - Catherine Jinks, Eye to Eye (Penguin)

Honour Books
David Metzenthen, Gilbert's Ghost Train (Scholastic)
Tim Winton, Lockie Leonard, Legend (Pan Macmillan)

1997 - James Moloney, A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove (University of Queensland Press)

Honour Books
David Metzenthen, Johnny Hart's Heroes (Penguin Books Australia)
Wendy Orr, Peeling the Onion (Little Ark/Allen & Unwin)

1996 - Catherine Jinks, Pagan's Vows (Omnibus Books)

Honour Books
Ursula Dubosarsky, The First Book of Samuel (Penguin Books Australia)
Sonya Hartnett, Sleeping Dogs (Penguin Books Australia)

1995 - Gillian Rubenstein, Foxspell

Honour Books
James Moloney, Gracey
Nadia Wheatley, The Night Tolkein Died

1994 - Isobelle Carmody, The Gathering, and Gary Crew, Angel's Gate

Honour Book
James Moloney, Dougy

1993 - Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

Honour Books
Sue Gough, A Long Way to Tipperary
Gillian Rubinstein, Galax-Arena

1992 - Eleanor Nilsson, The House Guest

1991 - Gary Crew, Strange Objects

1990 - Robin Klein, Came Back to Show You I Could Fly

1989 - Gillian Rubenstein, Beyond the Labyrinth

1988 - John Marsden, So Much to Tell You

1987 - Simon French, All We Know

1986 - Thurley Fowler, The Green Wind

1985 - James Aldridge, The True Story of Lilli Stubeck

1984 - Patricia Wrightson, A Little Fear

1983 - Victor Kelleher, Master of the Grove

1982 - Colin Thiele, The Valley Between

1981 - Ruth Park, Playing Beatie Bow

1980 - Lee Harding, Displaced Person

1979 - Ruth Manley, The Plum-Rain Scroll

1978 - Patricia Wrightson, The Ice is Coming

1977 - Eleanor Spence, The October Child

1976 - Ivan Southall, Fly West

1975 - No Award

1974 - Patricia Wrightson, The Nargun and the Stars

1973 - Noreen Shelly, Family at the Lookout

1972 - Hesba F. Brinsmead, Longtime Passing

1971 - Ivan Southall, Bread and Honey

1970 - Annette Macarthur-Onslow, Uhu

1969 - Balderson, Margaret, When Jays Fly to Barbmo

1968 - Ivan Southall, To the Wild Sky

1967 - Mavis Thorpe Clark, The Min Min

1966 - Ivan Southall, Ash Road

1965 - Hesba F. Brinsmead, Pastures of the Blue Crane

1964 - Eleanor Spence, The Green Laurel

1963 - Joan Phipson, The Family Conspiracy

1962 - H.L. Evers, The Racketty Street Gang, and Joan Woodbery, Rafferty Rides a Winner

1961 - Nan Chauncey, Tangara

1960 - Kylie Tennant, All the Proud Tribesmen

1959 - Nan Chauncey, Devil's Hill, and John Gunn, Sea Menace

1958 - Nan Chauncey, Tiger in the Bush

1957 - Enid Moore-Heddle, The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales

1956 - Patricia Wrightson, The Crooked Snake

1955 - H.A. Lindsay and N.B. Tindale, The First Walkabout

1954 - K.L. Parker, Australian Legendary Tales

1953 - J.H. and W.D. Martin, Aircraft of Today and Tomorrow, and Joan Phipson, Good Luck to the Rider

1952 - Eve Pownall, The Australia Book

1951 - Ruth Williams, Verity of Sydney Town

1950 - Alan Villiers, Whalers of the Midnight Sun

1949 - No Competition

1948 - Frank Hurley, Shackleton's Argonauts

1947 - No Award

1946 - Leslie Rees, The Story of Karrawingi the Emu

Sunday, August 30, 1998
Australian Book Awards from:
The Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/