CBCA winners

The winners of this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced today.

The winners and honour books in each of the categories are:

Older Readers

Winner:

• The Midnight Zoo (Sonya Hartnett, Viking).

Honour books:

• Graffiti Moon (Cath Crowley, Pan Macmillan)
• The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher (Doug MacLeod, Penguin).

Younger Readers

Winner:

• The Red Wind (Isobelle Carmody, Viking).

Honour books:

• Just a Dog (Michael Gerard Bauer, Omnibus)—read the review
• Violet Mackerel’s Brillant Plot (Anna Branford & Sarah Davis, Walker Books)—read the review.

Early Childhood

Winner:

• Maudie and Bear (Jan Ormerod & Freya Blackwood, Little Hare)—read the review.

Honour books:

• The Tall Man and the Twelve Babies (Tom Niland Champion, Kilmeny Niland & Deborah Niland, A&U)—read the review
• Look See, Look at Me! (Leonie Norrington & Dee Huxley, A&U).

Picture Book of the Year

Joint winners:

• Mirror (Jeannie Baker, Walker Books)—read the review
  
• Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Staged on the Page (Nikki Greenberg, A&U)—read the review.

Honour books:

• Why I Love Australia (Bronwyn Bancroft, Little Hare)—read the review
• My Uncle’s Donkey (Tohby Riddle, Viking).

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

Winner:

• The Return of the Word Spy (Ursula Dubosarsky & Tohby Riddle, Viking)—read the review.

Honour books:

• Drawn from the Heart: A Memoir (Ron Brooks, A&U)
• Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon (One Arm Point Remote Community School, Magabala Books)

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