Australian Children's Book of the Year AwardOlder Readers |
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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
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