DANZ Children’s Book Award 2025 shortlists announced
Monday, 7 April 2025 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The 2025 shortlists for the Australian School Library Association (ASLA) DANZ (Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children’s Book Award have been announced.
Chosen from previously announced longlists, shortlisted titles in each category are:
Graphic novel
- Ghost Book (Remy Lai, A&U Children’s)
- Neverlanders (Tom Taylor & Jon Sommariva, Penguin)
- The Sweetness Between Us (Sarah Winifred Searle, A&U Children’s)
Nonfiction
- Looking After Country with Fire (Victor Steffensen, illus by Sandra Steffensen, HG Explore)
- Our Mob (Taylor Hampton & Jacinta Daniher, illus by Seantelle Walsh, Ford Street)
- The Trees (Victor Steffensen, illus by Sandra Steffensen, HG Explore)
Poetry
- It’s the Sound of the Thing (Maxine Beneba Clarke, HGCP)
- Pasifika Navigators (52 Pasifika student authors, Mila’s Books)
YA
- Catch a Falling Star (Eileen Merriman, Penguin)
- Inkflower (Suzy Zail, Walker)
- Into the Mouth of the Wolf (Erin Gough, HGCP).
The winners will be announced at the ASLA conference in Geelong on 30 May.
More information about the award is available on the DANZ Children’s Book Award website.
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