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Children's Book Council of Australia
Book of the Year Award
Shortlist
2009

Winner Announced 21st August


The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) is a volunteer run, not for profit, organisation that was established in 1945 and is comprised of individual members who are passionate about children's and young adult literature.
Older Readers


  • Monster Blood Tattoo 2: Lamplighter - D.M Cornish

  • Into White Silence - Anthony Eaton

  • A Rose For The Anzac Boys - Jackie French

  • Finnikin of the Rock - Melina Marchetta

  • Kill the Possum - James Moloney

  • Tales from Outer Suburbia - Shaun Tan *WINNER* 

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    Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
    Perry Angel's Suitcase by Glenda Millard
    Younger Readers


  • The Wish Pony - Catherine Bateson

  • Polar Boy - Sandy Fussell

  • Then - Morris Gleitzman

  • Audrey of the Outback - Christine Harris

  • Perry Angel's Suitcase - Glenda Millard *WINNER* - Glenda Millard

  • The Wizard of Rondo - Emily Rodda 

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    Early Childhood


  • How to Heal a Broken Wing - Bob Graham *WINNER* - Bob Graham

  • Leaf - Stephen Michael King

  • Special Kev - Chris McKimmie

  • Applesauce and the Christmas Miracle - Glenda Millard, Ill: Stephen Michael King

  • Tom Tom - Rosemary Sullivan, Ill: Dee Huxley

  • Puffling - Margaret Wild, Ill: Julie Vivas 

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    How to Heal a Broken Wing - By Bob Graham
    Collecting Colour
    Picture Book of the Year


  • Sunday Chutney - Aaron Blabey

  • Collecting colour - Kylie Dunstan *WINNER*

  • Home and Away - Matt Ottey, Text: John Marsden

  • Nobody owns the moon - Tohby Riddle

  • Captain congo and the crocodile king - Greg Holfeld, Text: Ruth Starke

  • The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness - Colin Thompson 

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    Eve Pownell Award for Information Books


  • The Word Spy - Ursula Dubosarsky, Ill: Tohby Riddle

  • Simpson and his donkey - Mark Greenwood, Ill: Frane Lessac

  • Alive in the death zone - Lincoln Hall *WINNER* - Lincoln Hall

  • Chicken: the story of chicken in Australia - Catriona Nicholls and Janet Paterson, Ill: Rod Waller

  • Tuart Dwellers - Jan Ramage, Ill: Ellen HIckman

  • Every Picture tells a story: Adventures in Australian art - John Ross and Anna Booth 

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    Alive in the death zone By Lincoln Hall

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