Thursday, 21 November 2019
Sue deGennaro’s picture book Missing Marvin (Scholastic) has won the Children’s Peace Literature Award, presented to a book that ‘encourages the peaceful resolution of conflict’ or ‘promotes peace at the...

Thursday, 17 October 2019
Three children’s books with environmental themes have been honoured at the Wilderness Society’s Environment Award for Children’s Literature. They are: the picture book The All New Must Have Orange 430...

Thursday, 19 September 2019
Australia’s bestselling YA author Lynette Noni has won the Gold Inky Award for her dystopian novel Whisper (Pantera), the first in a new series by the author of ‘The Medoran...

Thursday, 22 August 2019
The winners of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Older readers: Between Us (Clare Atkins, Black Inc.)...

Thursday, 20 June 2019
The shortlist has been announced for the Readings Young Adult Prize, presented by the Australian independent bookseller for debut or second YA books. The shortlisted titles are: Highway Bodies (Alison...

Thursday, 16 May 2019
Jay Kristoff’s YA novel Lifel1k3 (Allen & Unwin)—which is pitched as Romeo and Juliet meets Mad Max meets X-Men—has been named best science-fiction novel at the Aurealis Awards for science-fiction, fantasy and...

Thursday, 18 April 2019
The shortlists for the prestigious Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. Carly Nugent’s middle-grade novel The Peacock Detectives (Text) has won the...

Thursday, 21 March 2019
The picture book Petit Soldat (Editions du Seuil) by Australia-based couple Pierre Jacques Ober and Jules Ober has won the Prix Carrement Beau Maxi (for most beautiful book in the...

Thursday, 21 February 2019
Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina’s YA novel Catching Teller Crow (Allen & Unwin) has won a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and received a shortlisting for the Indie Book Awards. The YA...

Thursday, 22 November 2018
Children’s author and illustrator Alison Lester has won the Melbourne Prize for Literature, presented every three years to a Victorian author ‘whose body of published work has made an outstanding...

Tuesday, 16 October 2018
Peter Vu’s YA novel Paper Cranes Don’t Fly (Ford Street Publishing) has won the Gold Inky Award—selected by readers aged between 12-20 from shortlists chosen by a panel of teen...

Thursday, 20 September 2018
Prolific children’s author and former Australian Children’s Laureate Alison Lester has been shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature. The award is presented triennially to a Victorian author whose body...

Thursday, 23 August 2018
The winners and honour books for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards, one of the most influential awards on the Australian children’s book...

Thursday, 21 June 2018
Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor (Lothian) has won yet another award—this time the Australian Booksellers Association Booksellers Choice Award, announced on 17 June. The children’s book has previously taken out Book of...

Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend (Lothian) continues its award-winning streak, earning the author three awards at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) announced earlier this month. Nevermoor won the awards for...

Thursday, 19 April 2018
Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Lothian) has been named Book of the Year at the 2018 Indie Book Awards. Nevermoor, which also took out the children’s category of the awards,...

Friday, 16 March 2018
Following on from her recent joint win at the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards (PMLAs), Wendy Orr has taken out another major prize for Dragonfly Song (Allen & Unwin). Orr’s Minoan-era...

Thursday, 15 February 2018
Wendy Orr’s Minoan-era historical epic, Dragonfly Song (Allen & Unwin), was the joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award (PMLA) for children’s fiction, and has also been shortlisted for...

Thursday, 16 November 2017
Phil Cummings and Shane Devries’ picture book Boy (Scholastic) has won the Australian Psychological Society’s Children’s Peace Literature Award. It tells the story of a young deaf boy who brings...

Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Cath Crowley’s YA novel Words in Deep Blue (Pan Macmillan)—a love story between estranged best friends set in a Melbourne secondhand bookshop—has picked up multiple awards in the past few...

Monday, 14 August 2017
Zana Fraillon’s YA novel The Bone Sparrow (Hachette) has won the inaugural Readings YA Prize. Fraillon’s novel tells the story of Subhi, a refugee born in a detention centre, who...

Thursday, 13 July 2017
The Australian Wilderness Society has announced the shortlists for the Environment Award for Children’s Literature, which are presented annually to books that ‘foster a love of wild places and wildlife’...