KROC Awards 2017 winners announced
Wednesday, 8 November 2017 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The winners of the 2017 Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for the Northern Territory, have been announced.
The winning titles are:
Picture storybooks
- Do Not Open This Book (Andy Lee, illus by Heath McKenzie, Lake Press)
Fiction for younger readers
- WeirDo: Mega Weird! (Anh Do, illus by Jules Faber, Scholastic)
Fiction for older readers
- The 78-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths, illus by Terry Denton, Pan)
Fiction for years 7-9
- Pennies for Hitler (Jackie French, HarperCollins)
The KROC Awards were presented at Casuarina Library in Darwin on 5 November.
The winners were selected from the Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards shortlist, which also acts as a shortlist for the children’s choice awards in the Australian Capital Territory (COOL Awards), New South Wales (KOALAs) and Victoria (YABBAs).
For more information about the KROC Awards, click here.
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