Hot of the press: the winners of this year’s Children’s Book Council (CBC) of Australia Book of the Year Awards:
Older Readers: The Protected (on order)
Older Readers honour books: Nona & Me, The Minnow
Younger Readers: The Cleo Stories The Necklace and the Present
Younger readers honour books: Two Wolves, Withering-by-Sea: a Stella Montgomery Intrigue
Early Childhood: Go to Sleep, Jessie!
Early Childhood Honour books: Scary Night, Noni the Pony goes to the Beach
Picture Book of the Year: My Two Blankets
Picture Book of the Year Honour books: One Minute’s Silence, The Stone Lion
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books: – A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land
Eve Pownall Award for Information Honour books: Tea and Sugar Christmas, Audacity: Stories of Heroic Australians in Wartime
We have many of the other short listed books – see the full list – and check out our display of some the short listed CBC books in the Thurgoona library
