The Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers has been presented annually since 1946 by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA). Note: from 1946 to 1986 this award was known as "Book of the Year".
The Award "will be made to outstanding books of fiction, drama, or poetry which require of the reader a degree of maturity to appreciate the topics, themes and scope of emotional involvement. Generally, books in this category will be appropriate in style and content for readers in their secondary years of schooling."[1]
Award winners [edit]
| Year |
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
| 1959 |
Nan Chauncy, illustrated by Margaret Horder |
Devil's Hill |
Oxford University Press |
| 1958 |
Nan Chauncy |
Tiger in the Bush |
Oxford University Press |
| 1957 |
Enid Moodie-Heddle (ed.), illustrated by Nancy Parker |
The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales |
Longmans Green |
| 1956 |
Patricia Wrightson, illustrated by Margaret Horder |
The Crooked Snake |
Angus and Robertson |
| 1955 |
Norman B. Tindale & Lindsay, Harold Arthur Lindsay,
illustrated by Madeleine Boyce
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The First Walkabout |
Longmans Green |
| 1954 |
K. Langloh Parker, edited by Henrietta Drake-Brockman,
illustrated by Elizabeth Durack
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Australian Legendary Tales |
Angus and Robertson |
| 1953 |
Joan Phipson, illustrated by Margaret Horder |
Good Luck to the Rider |
Angus and Robertson |
| 1952 |
Eve Pownall, illustrated by Margaret Senior |
The Australia Book |
John Sands |
| 1951 |
Ruth C. Williams, illustrated by Rhys Williams |
Verity of Sydney Town |
Angus and Robertson |
| 1950 |
Alan J. Villiers, illustrated by Charles Pont |
Whalers of the Midnight Sun |
Angus and Robertson |
| Year |
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
| 1949 |
No competition |
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| 1948 |
Frank Hurley |
Shackleton's Argonauts: A Saga of the Antarctic Icepacks |
Angus and Robertson |
| 1947 |
No award |
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| 1946 |
Leslie Rees, illustrated by Walter Cunningham |
The Story of Karrawingi the Emu |
John Sands |
See also [edit]
External links [edit]
References [edit]
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Children's Book of the Year Award for Older Readers
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| 1946-1949 |
- The Story of Karrawingi the Emu by Leslie Rees (1946)
- Shackleton's Argonauts: A Saga of the Antarctic Icepacks by Frank Hurley (1948)
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| 1950-1959 |
- Whalers of the Midnight Sun by Alan Villiers (1950)
- Verity of Sydney Town by Ruth C. Williams (1951)
- The Australia Book by Eve Pownall (1952)
- Good Luck to the Rider by Joan Phipson (1953)
- Australian Legendary Tales by K. Langloh Parker (1954)
- The First Walkabout by Norman B. Tindale and Harold Arthur Lindsay (1955)
- The Crooked Snake by Patricia Wrightson (1956)
- The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales, edited by Enid Moodie-Heddle (1957)
- Tiger in the Bush by Nan Chauncy (1958)
- Devil's Hill by Nan Chauncy (1959)
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| 1960-1969 |
- All the Proud Tribesmen by Kylie Tennant (1960)
- Tangara by Nan Chauncy (1961)
- The Racketty Street Gang by L. H. Evers (1962)
- The Family Conspiracy by Joan Phipson (1963)
- The Green Laurel by Eleanor Spence (1964)
- Pastures of the Blue Crane by H. F. Brinsmead (1965)
- Ash Road by Ivan Southall (1966)
- The Min-Min by Mavis Thorpe Clark (1967)
- To the Wild Sky by Ivan Southall (1968)
- When Jays Fly to Barbmo by Margaret Balderson (1969)
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| 1970-1979 |
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| 1980-1989 |
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| 1990-1999 |
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| 2000-2009 |
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| 2010-present |
- Jarvis 24 by David Metzenthen (2010)
- The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett (2011)
- The Dead I Know by Scot Gardner (2012)
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