Category Archives: Award winning
CBCA Book of the Year Award Winners 2021
Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators and publishers who have been announced winners of the CBCA 2021 Book of the Year Awards. These titles were highly anticipated and it would have been no easy task to decide the winners from
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Vale Eric Carle, the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
We were very sad to hear the news that Eric Carle, author & illustrator of books for children, passed away on 23rd May 2021 at the age of 91. He is most remembered for The Very Hungry Caterpillar which was published
Read MoreCBCA Book of the Year Winners
In 1946 the CBCA established annual book awards to promote children’s books of high literary and artistic quality. These awards are now the most influential and highly respected in Australia. Last week, the 2020 Book of the Year winners were
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Book of the Week
Butterfly Yellow by Thanhh Lai is award-winning historical fiction. The novel tells the story of 18-year-old Hang who journeys away from war-torn Vietnam and arrives in Texas, USA, to reconnect with her brother, who left six years earlier. It’s a
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CBCA 2019 Book of the Year Award Winners
CBCA has announced the 2019 Book of the Week award winners. The awards recognize literary merit and the judges noted that: “Gritty, contemporary themes are tackled by many books in the Children’s Book Council of Australia 2019 Book of the
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CBCA Shortlist 2019
The 2019 CBCA Shortlist has been announced. Start reading from the list and decide who you think will win this year’s Book of the Year awards. For more information, go to the CBCA website where this list has been published.
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Queensland Teacher-Librarian of the Year
Congratulations to Mrs Helen Stower who was the recipient of the Queensland Teacher Librarian of the Year award at the recent Future Libraries Conference. She was the joint recipient of the award along with Tania Venuto from West End State School. This is an annual
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2018 Inky Award Shortlists
Judges aged between 12 and 18 from all over the country have shortlisted the best YA books of the year for the annual Inky Awards. Two awards are up for grabs – the Gold Inky for a novel by an
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CBCA 2018 Award Winners
Congratulations to the talented Australian children’s authors and illustrators who are the 2018 Book of the Year award winners. Professor Margot Hillel OAM, Chair of the CBCA National Board says, “This is our 72nd Book of the Year Awards and
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Australian YA Awards
Exciting times for Thomas Good (Yr 11 Padua College), a member of the senior Padua and Mt Alvernia book club. Thomas has been selected as a judge for the 2018 Inky Awards! We all have our personal favourite young-adult (YA)
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