Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers

Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers
Awarded for	Excellence in Australian high school books
Country	Australia
Presented by	Children's Book Council of Australia
First awarded	1946
Official website	http://cbca.org.au/index.htm

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

2010s

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
2015	Claire Zorn	The Protected	University of Queensland Press
2014	Fiona Wood	Wildlife	Pan MacMillan
2013	Margo Lanagan	Sea Hearts	Allen & Unwin
2012	Scot Gardner	The Dead I Know	Allen & Unwin
2011	Sonya Hartnett	The Midnight Zoo	Viking Books
2010	David Metzenthen	Jarvis 24	Penguin Group

2000s

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
2009	Shaun Tan	Tales from Outer Suburbia	Allen and Unwin
2008	Sonya Hartnett	The Ghost's Child	Viking Books
2007	Margo Lanagan	Red Spikes	Allen and Unwin
2006	J. C. Burke	The Story of Tom Brennan	Random House
2005	Michael Gerard Bauer	The Running Man	Omnibus Books
2004	Melina Marchetta	Saving Francesca	Viking Books
2003	Markus Zusak	The Messenger	Macmillan Publishers
2002	Sonya Hartnett	Forest	Viking Books
2001	Judith Clarke	Wolf on the Fold	Allen and Unwin
2000	Nick Earls	48 Shades of Brown	Penguin Books

1990s

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
1999	Phillip Gwynne	Deadly, Unna?	Penguin Books
1998	Catherine Jinks	Eye to Eye	Puffin Books
1997	James Moloney	A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove	University of Queensland Press
1996	Catherine Jinks	Pagan's Vows	Omnibus Books
1995	Gillian Rubinstein	Foxspell	Hyland House
1994	Isobelle Carmody (joint)	The Gathering	Penguin Books
1994	Gary Crew (joint)	Angel's Gate	Heinemann
1993	Melina Marchetta	Looking for Alibrandi	Puffin Books
1992	Eleanor Nilsson	The House Guest	Viking Books
1991	Gary Crew	Strange Objects	Heinemann
1990	Robin Klein	Came Back to Show You I Could Fly	Viking Books

1980s

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
1989	Gillian Rubinstein	Beyond the Labyrinth	Hyland House
1988	John Marsden	So Much to Tell You	Joy Street Books
1987	Simon French	All We Know	Angus and Robertson
1986	Thurley Fowler	The Green Wind	Rigby
1985	James Aldridge	The True Story of Lilli Stubeck	Hyland House
1984	Patricia Wrightson	A Little Fear	Hutchinson
1983	Victor Kelleher	Master of the Grove	Kestrel Books
1982	Colin Thiele	The Valley Between	Opal Books
1981	Ruth Park	Playing Beatie Bow	Nelson Books
1980	Lee Harding	Displaced Person	Hyland House

1970s

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
1979	Ruth Manley, illustrated by Marianne Yamaguchi	The Plum-Rain Scroll	Hodder and Stoughton
1978	Patricia Wrightson	The Ice is Coming	Hutchinson
1977	Eleanor Spence, illustrated by Malcolm Green	The October Child	Oxford University Press
1976	Ivan Southall	Fly West	Angus and Robertson
1975	No award
1974	Patricia Wrightson	The Nargun and the Stars	Hutchinson
1973	Noreen Shelley, illustrated by Robert Micklewright	Family at The Lookout	Oxford University Press
1972	H. F. Brinsmead	Longtime Passing	Angus and Robertson
1971	Ivan Southall	Bread and Honey	Angus and Robertson
1970	Annette Macarthur-Onslow	Uhu	Ure Smith

1960s

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
1969	Margaret Balderson, illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus	When Jays Fly to Barbmo	Oxford University Press
1968	Ivan Southall, illustrated by Jennifer Tuckwell	To the Wild Sky	Angus and Robertson
1967	Mavis Thorpe Clark, and illustrated by Genevieve Melrose	The Min-Min	Lansdowne Press
1966	Ivan Southall, illustrated by Clem Seale	Ash Road	Angus and Robertson
1965	H. F. Brinsmead, illustrated by Annette Macarthur-Onslow	Pastures of the Blue Crane	Oxford University Press
1964	Eleanor Spence, illustrated by Geraldine Spence	The Green Laurel	Oxford University Press
1963	Joan Phipson, illustrated by Margaret Horder	The Family Conspiracy	Constable
1962	L. H. Evers	The Racketty Street Gang	Hodder & Stoughton
1961	Nan Chauncy, illustrated by Brian Wildsmith	Tangara	Oxford University Press
1960^[2]	Kylie Tennant, illustrated by Clem Seale	All the Proud Tribesmen	Macmillan

1950s

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
1959^[3]	Nan Chauncy, illustrated by Geraldine Spence	Devil's Hill	Oxford University Press
1959^[3]	John Gunn, illustrated by Brian Keogh	Sea Menace	Constable
1958^[4]	Nan Chauncy	Tiger in the Bush	Oxford University Press
1957^[5]	Enid Moodie-Heddle (ed.), illustrated by Nancy Parker	The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales	Longmans Green
1956^[6]	Patricia Wrightson, illustrated by Margaret Horder	The Crooked Snake	Angus and Robertson
1955^[7]	Norman B. Tindale & Harold Arthur Lindsay, illustrated by Madeleine Boyce	The First Walkabout	Longmans Green
1954^[8]	K. Langloh Parker, edited by Henrietta Drake-Brockman, illustrated by Elizabeth Durack	Australian Legendary Tales	Angus and Robertson
1953^[9]	James H. Martin and W. D. Martin	Aircraft of Today and Tomorrow	Angus and Robertson
1953^[9]	Joan Phipson, illustrated by Margaret Horder	Good Luck to the Rider	Angus and Robertson
1952^[10]	Eve Pownall, illustrated by Margaret Senior	The Australia Book	John Sands
1951^[11]	Ruth C. Williams, illustrated by Rhys Williams	Verity of Sydney Town	Angus and Robertson
1950^[12]	Alan J. Villiers, illustrated by Charles Pont	Whalers of the Midnight Sun	Angus and Robertson

1940s

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
1949	No competition
1948^[13]	Frank Hurley	Shackleton's Argonauts: A Saga of the Antarctic Icepacks	Angus and Robertson
1947^[14]	No award
1946^[15]	Leslie Rees, illustrated by Walter Cunningham	The Story of Karrawingi the Emu	John Sands

External links

CBCA Awards History

References

Children's Book of the Year Award for Older Readers

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)

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) Aircraft of Today and Tomorrow by James H. Martin & W. D. Martin (1953) 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) Sea Menace by John Gunn (1959)

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)

1970–1979	Uhu by Annette Macarthur-Onslow (1970) Bread and Honey by Ivan Southall (1971) Longtime Passing by H. F. Brinsmead (1972) Family at the Lookout by Noreen Shelley (1973) The Nargun and the Stars by Patricia Wrightson (1974) Fly West by Ivan Southall (1976) The October Child by Eleanor Spence (1977) The Ice is Coming by Patricia Wrightson (1978) The Plum-Rain Scroll by Ruth Manly (1979)

1980–1989	Displaced Person by Lee Harding (1980) Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park (1981) The Valley Between by Colin Thiele (1982) Master of the Grove by Victor Kelleher (1983) A Little Fear by Patricia Wrightson (1984) The True Story of Lilli Stubeck by James Aldridge (1985) The Green Wind by Thurley Fowler (1986) All We Know by Simon French (1987) So Much to Tell You by John Marsden (1988) Beyond the Labyrinth by Gillian Rubinstein (1989)

1990–1999	Came Back to Show You I Could Fly by Robin Klein (1990) Strange Objects by Gary Crew (1991) The House Guest by Eleanor Nilsson (1992) Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta (1993) The Gathering by Isobelle Carmody (1994) Angel's Gate by Gary Crew (1995) Foxspell by Gillian Rubinstein (1995) Pagan's Vows by Catherine Jinks (1996) A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove by James Moloney (1997) Eye to Eye by Catherine Jinks (1998) Deadly, Unna? by Phillip Gwynne (1999)

2000–2009	48 Shades of Brown by Nick Earls (2000) Wolf on the Fold by Judith Clarke (2001) Forest by Sonya Hartnett (2002) The Messenger by Markus Zusak (2003) Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta (2004) The Running Man by Michael Gerard Bauer (2005) The Story of Tom Brennan by J. C. Burke (2006) Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan (2007) The Ghost's Child by Sonya Hartnett (2008) Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan (2009)

2010–present	Jarvis 24 by David Metzenthen (2010) The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett (2011) The Dead I Know by Scot Gardner (2012) Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (2013) Wildlife by Fiona Wood (2014) The Protected Claire Zorn (2015)

Picture Book (1955–present) Early Childhood (2001–present) Younger Readers (1982–present) Eve Pownall Award for Information Books (1988–present)

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