Wilderness Society announces 2015 children’s book award shortlists

Thursday, 28 May 2015 Books+Publishing

The shortlists for the 2015 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature have been announced, including a new category for nonfiction titles.

The shortlisted books in each category are:

Fiction

Lulu Bell and the Sea Turtle (Belinda Murrell, illus by Serena Geddes, Random House)
Those Eco-Pirate Kids (Jon Tucker, Storm Bay Books)
Rescue on Nim’s Island (Wendy Orr, illus by Geoff Kelly, A&U)
The Vanishing Frogs of Cascade Creek (Emma Homes, Spark Street)

Picture fiction

Zobi and the Zoox (Ailsa Wild, Briony Barr & Gregory Crocetti, illus by Aviva Reed, Scale Free Network)
The Duck and Darklings (Glenda Millard, illus by Stephen Michael King, A&U)
Rivertime (Trace Balla, A&U)
Run Tree Run (Kelly Alsop, illus by Boris Silvestri, JoJo Publishing)

Nonfiction

Emu (Claire Saxby, illus by Graham Byrne, Walker Books)
Our Class Tiger (Aleesah Darlison, illus by Antonia Stylianou, OUP)
Found and Made: The Art of Upcycling (Lisa Hölzl, Walker Books).

The award is presented annually to fiction and nonfiction books that ‘foster a love of wild places and wildlife in young Australians’ and ‘encourage a sense of responsibility for our natural world’. For more information, visit the Wilderness Society website here.

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