Speech Pathology Book of the Year 2020 winners announced

Friday, 20 November 2020 Books+Publishing

The winners of the 2020 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year awards have been announced.

Chosen from shortlists announced in July, the winning titles are:

Birth to three years

Meerkat Splash (Aura Parker, Puffin)

Three to five years

Charlie’s Shell (Marina Zlatanova, New Holland)

Five to eight years

Goat on a Boat (Nick Dent, illus by Suzanne Houghton, Omnibus)

Eight to 10 years

The Little Wave (Pip Harry, UQP)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Authored Children’s Book Award

My Culture and Me (Gregg Dreise, Puffin).

The awards were announced on 6 November.

The ‘Indigenous children’ category was renamed the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Authored Children’s Book Award.

The Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards aim to ‘promote quality Australian books that help children get the best, most literate start in life’ and are judged on their ‘appeal to children, interactive quality and ability to assist speech pathologists and parents in communication and literacy development’.