This year has been an absolutely huge year for women writers and illustrators at the CBCA Awards. Freya Blackwood alone won 3 categories! Which is unprecedented in the 70 year history of the awards. And Libby Gleeson won 2! Great stuff. Tonight Libby Gleeson was named as the winner of the 2015 Nan Chauncy Award for an outstanding contribution to Australian Children's Literature.
See the Judges' Report 2015.
Book of the Year Older Readers Winner -
The Protected - Claire Zorn (see my review)
Book of the Year Older Readers Honour Books
Nona & Me - Claire Atkins
The Minnow - Diana Sweeney
Book of the Year Younger Readers Winner -
Libby Gleeson and Freya Blackwood The Cleo Stories: The Necklace and The Present
Book of the Year Younger Readers Honour Books
Two Wolves - Tristan Bancks (see my review)
Withering-By-Sea: A Stella Montgomery Intrigue - Judith Rossell (see my review)
Book of the Year Early Childhood Winner -
Go to Sleep, Jessie! Libby Gleeson, Freya Blackwood
Early Childhood Honour Books
Noni the Pony Goes to the Beach - Alison Lester
Scary Night - Lesley Gibbs, Stephen Michael King (illustrator)
Book of the Year Picture Book Winner -
My Two Blankets - Freya Blackwood, Irena Kobald (text) (see my review)
Book of the Year Picture Book Honour Books
One Minute's Silence - Michael Camilleri, David Metzenthen (text) (see my review)
The Stone Lion - Ritva Voutila, Margaret Wild (text) (see my review)
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Winner -
A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land - Simon Barnard
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Honour Books
Audacity: Stories of Heroic Australians in Wartime - Carlie Walker
Tea and Sugar Christmas - Jane Jolly, Robert Ingpen
Crichton Award for New Illustrators Winner-
One Minute's Silence - Michael Camilleri, David Metzenthen (text) (see my review)
Congratulations to all the winners. There are always more excellent books waiting to be read.
Last year I managed to pick 50% of the winners by cover work alone. This year I only managed 16%! Yes I picked one correctly of the 6 categories.
Check out the full Shortlist from April.
Check out the full Shortlist from April.
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