COOL Award

The COOL Awards is an annual children's choice award voted on by students in Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.^[1] Children are encouraged to read and vote for their favourite books. The votes are tallied and the awards made.

The COOL Award name is an acronym, standing for Canberra’s Own Outstanding List.

The ACT Public Library currently convenes the awards and they are administered by a committee representing ACT Government, Catholic and Independent Schools, the ACT Public Library and the Children's Book Council of Australia, ACT Branch.^[1] The award was first made in 1991.

Award categories and descriptions

There are four categories of the COOL awards:

for most popular Picture Book
for most popular Fiction for Younger Readers
for most popular Fiction for Older Readers
for most popular Fiction for Years 7-9 (commenced in 2007)

List of COOL Award winners

Picture Book Award

Year	Author	Book	Citation
1993	Jeannie Baker	Window	Winner
1994	Mem Fox	Possum Magic	Winner
1995	Margaret Wild	Toby	Winner
1996	Jessica Carroll	Billy the Punk	Winner
1997	Jessica Carroll	Billy the Punk	Winner
1998	Margaret Wild	The Midnight Gang	Winner
1999	Rod Clement	Grandad’s Teeth	Winner
2000	David Legge	Bamboozled	Winner
2003	Jackie French	Diary of a Wombat	Winner
2004	Pamela Allen	Mr McGee and the Biting Flea	Winner
2005	Stephen Michael King	Mutt Dog!	Winner
2006	Matt Dray	Dougal the Garbage Dump Bear	Winner
2007	Deborah Niland	Annie's Chair	Winner
2008	Mem Fox, illus by Judy Horacek	Where is the Green Sheep?	Winner
2009	Graeme Base	Jungle Drums	Winner
2010	Colin Thompson	Fearless	Winner
2011	Leigh Hobbs	Mr Chicken Goes to Paris	Winner

Fiction for Younger Readers Award

Year	Author	Book	Citation
1991	Paul Jennings	Round the Twist	Winner
1992	Paul Jennings	The Cabbage Patch Fib	Winner
1993	Paul Jennings	Unreal!	Winner
1994	Graeme Base	The Eleventh Hour	Winner
1995	Paul Jennings	The Gizmo	Winner
1996	Morris Gleitzman	Belly Flop	Winner
1997	Morris Gleitzman	Belly Flop	Winner
1998	Paul Jennings	Wicked	Winner
1999	Morris Gleitzman	Bumface	Winner
2000	Emily Rodda	Bob the Builder and the Elves	Winner
2003	Emily Rodda	Deltora Quest 2 series	Winner
2004	Emily Rodda	Deltora Quest 3 series	Winner
2006	Anna Fienberg	Tashi and the Forbidden Room	Winner
2007	Andy Griffiths	The Cat on the Mat is Flat	Winner
2008	Andy Griffiths	Just Shocking!	Winner
2009	Kathy Castle	Go Girl! Two Sides: #1 Track Stars!	Winner
2010	Andy Griffiths	The Big Fat Cow Goes Kapow	Winner
2011	Andy Griffiths	The Very Bad Book	Winner

Fiction for Older Readers Award

Year	Author	Book	Citation
1991	Robin Klein	People Might Hear You	Winner
1992	Robin Klein	Came Back to Show You I Could Fly	Winner
1993	Victor Kelleher	Del-Del	Winner
1994	Ruth Park	Playing Beatie Bow	Winner
1995	John Marsden	Tomorrow, When the War Began and So Much to Tell You (tied)	Winner
1996	Paul Jennings	Paw Thing	Winner
1997	Paul Jennings	Paw Thing	Winner
1998	John Marsden	The Dead of the Night	Winner
1999	John Marsden	The Third Day, the Frost	Winner
2000	John Marsden	The Night is for Hunting	Winner
2003	Andy Griffiths	Just Disgusting!	Winner
2004	Andy Griffiths	Zombie Bums from Uranus	Winner
2005	Andy Griffiths	The Bad Book	Winner
2006	Andy Griffiths	Bumageddon: The Final Pongflict	Winner
2007	Andy Griffiths	Zombie Bums from Uranus	Winner
2008	Paul Jennings	Spookiest Stories	Winner
2009	Morris Gleitzman	Give Peas a Chance	Winner
2010	Emily Rodda	The Battle of Rondo	Winner
2011	John Flanagan	Ranger's Apprentice	Winner

Notes

^ ^a ^b "Cool Awards - Children's Choice Book Awards in Canberra". ACT Library and Information Services. Archived from the original on 10 August 2007. Retrieved 10 August 2007.

References

COOL Awards Shortlist 2007 (Retrieved 10 August 2007)
Cool Awards - Children's Choice Book Awards in Canberra (Retrieved 10 August 2007)
CBCA Awards (Retrieved 10 August 2007)

[cool-1] "Cool Awards - Children's Choice Book Awards in Canberra". ACT Library and Information Services. Archived from the original on 10 August 2007. Retrieved 10 August 2007.

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