Children's_Book_of_the_Year_Award:_Older_Readers

Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers
Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers
Awarded for	Outstanding Australian books (fiction, drama, illustrated text, poetry or graphic novels) for 13–18-year olds
Country	Australia
Presented by	Children's Book Council of Australia
First awarded	1946
Website	http://www.cbca.org.au/

Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers

Australian literary award from 1946

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".

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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]

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Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref.
1946	Leslie Rees, illustrated by Walter Cunningham	The Story of Karrawingi the Emu	John Sands	^[2]
1947	No award			^[3]
1948	Frank Hurley	Shackleton's Argonauts: A Saga of the Antarctic Icepacks	Angus and Robertson	^[4]
1949	No competition			^[5]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref.
1950	Alan J. Villiers, illustrated by Charles Pont	Whalers of the Midnight Sun	Angus and Robertson	^[6]
1951	Ruth C. Williams, illustrated by Rhys Williams	Verity of Sydney Town	Angus and Robertson	^[7]
1952	Eve Pownall, illustrated by Margaret Senior	The Australia Book	John Sands	^[8]
1953	Joan Phipson, illustrated by Margaret Horder	Good Luck to the Rider	Angus and Robertson	^[9]
1953	James H. Martin and W. D. Martin	Aircraft of Today and Tomorrow	Angus and Robertson	^[9]
1954	K. Langloh Parker, edited by Henrietta Drake-Brockman, illustrated by Elizabeth Durack	Australian Legendary Tales	Angus and Robertson	^[10]
1955	Norman B. Tindale and Harold Arthur Lindsay, illustrated by Madeleine Boyce	The First Walkabout	Longmans Green	^[11]
1956	Patricia Wrightson, illustrated by Margaret Horder	The Crooked Snake	Angus and Robertson	^[12]
1957	Enid Moodie Heddle (ed.), illustrated by Nancy Parker	The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales	Longmans Green	^[13]
1958	Nan Chauncy	Tiger in the Bush	Oxford University Press	^[14]
1959	Nan Chauncy, illustrated by Geraldine Spence	Devil's Hill	Oxford University Press	^[15]
1959	John Gunn, illustrated by Brian Keogh	Sea Menace	Constable	^[15]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref.
1960	Kylie Tennant, illustrated by Clem Seale	All the Proud Tribesmen	Macmillan	^[16]
1961	Nan Chauncy, illustrated by Brian Wildsmith	Tangara	Oxford University Press	^[17]
1962	Joan Woodberry	Rafferty Rides a Winner	M. Parrish, London	^[18]
1962	L. H. Evers	The Racketty Street Gang	Hodder & Stoughton	^[18]
1963	Joan Phipson, illustrated by Margaret Horder	The Family Conspiracy	Constable	^[19]
1964	Eleanor Spence, illustrated by Geraldine Spence	The Green Laurel	Oxford University Press	^[20]
1965	H. F. Brinsmead, illustrated by Annette Macarthur-Onslow	Pastures of the Blue Crane	Oxford University Press	^[21]
1966	Ivan Southall, illustrated by Clem Seale	Ash Road	Angus and Robertson	^[22]
1967	Mavis Thorpe Clark, illustrated by Genevieve Melrose	The Min-Min	Lansdowne Press	^[23]
1968	Ivan Southall, illustrated by Jennifer Tuckwell	To the Wild Sky	Angus and Robertson	^[24]
1969	Margaret Balderson, illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus	When Jays Fly to Barbmo	Oxford University Press	^[25]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref.
1970	Annette Macarthur-Onslow	Uhu	Ure Smith	^[26]
1971	Ivan Southall	Bread and Honey	Angus and Robertson	^[27]
1972	H. F. Brinsmead	Longtime Passing	Angus and Robertson	^[28]
1973	Noreen Shelley, illustrated by Robert Micklewright	Family at the Lookout	Oxford University Press	^[29]
1974	Patricia Wrightson	The Nargun and the Stars	Hutchinson	^[30]
1975	No award			^[31]
1976	Ivan Southall	Fly West	Angus and Robertson	^[32]
1977	Eleanor Spence, illustrated by Malcolm Green	The October Child	Oxford University Press	^[33]
1978	Patricia Wrightson	The Ice is Coming	Hutchinson	^[34]
1979	Ruth Manley, illustrated by Marianne Yamaguchi	The Plum-Rain Scroll	Hodder and Stoughton	^[35]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref.
1980	Lee Harding	Displaced Person	Hyland House	^[36]
1981	Ruth Park	Playing Beatie Bow	Nelson Books	^[37]
1982	Colin Thiele	The Valley Between	Opal Books	^[38]
1983	Victor Kelleher	Master of the Grove	Kestrel Books	^[39]
1984	Patricia Wrightson	A Little Fear	Hutchinson	^[40]
1985	James Aldridge	The True Story of Lilli Stubeck	Hyland House	^[41]
1986	Thurley Fowler	The Green Wind	Rigby	^[42]
1987	Simon French	All We Know	Angus and Robertson	^[43]
1988	John Marsden	So Much to Tell You	Joy Street Books	^[44]
1989	Gillian Rubinstein	Beyond the Labyrinth	Hyland House	^[45]

Children's_Book_of_the_Year_Award:_Older_Readers

Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers

Award winners

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Commended books

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

See also

External links

References

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Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref.
1990	Robin Klein	Came Back to Show You I Could Fly	Viking Books
1991	Gary Crew	Strange Objects	Heinemann	^[46]
1992	Eleanor Nilsson	The House Guest	Viking Books
1993	Melina Marchetta	Looking for Alibrandi	Puffin Books
1994	Isobelle Carmody	The Gathering	Penguin Books
1994	Gary Crew	Angel's Gate	Heinemann
1995	Gillian Rubinstein	Foxspell	Hyland House
1996	Catherine Jinks	Pagan's Vows	Omnibus Books
1997	James Moloney	A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove	University of Queensland Press
1998	Catherine Jinks	Eye to Eye	Puffin Books
1999	Phillip Gwynne	Deadly, Unna?	Penguin Books

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref
2000	Nick Earls	48 Shades of Brown	Penguin Books	^[47]
2001	Judith Clarke	Wolf on the Fold	Allen and Unwin	^[47]
2002	Sonya Hartnett	Forest	Viking Books	^[47]
2003	Markus Zusak	The Messenger	Macmillan Publishers	^[47]
2004	Melina Marchetta	Saving Francesca	Viking Books	^[47]
2005	Michael Gerard Bauer	The Running Man	Omnibus Books	^[47]
2006	J. C. Burke	The Story of Tom Brennan	Random House	^[47]
2007	Margo Lanagan	Red Spikes	Allen and Unwin	^[48]
2008	Sonya Hartnett	The Ghost's Child	Viking Books	^[49]
2009	Shaun Tan	Tales from Outer Suburbia	Allen and Unwin	^[50]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref.
2010	David Metzenthen	Jarvis 24	Penguin Group	^[51]
2011	Sonya Hartnett	The Midnight Zoo	Viking Books	^[52]
2012	Scot Gardner	The Dead I Know	Allen & Unwin	^[53]
2013	Margo Lanagan	Sea Hearts	Allen & Unwin	^[54]
2014	Fiona Wood	Wildlife	Pan MacMillan	^[55]
2015	Claire Zorn	The Protected	University of Queensland Press	^[56]
2016	Fiona Wood	Cloudwish	Macmillan Australia	^[57]
2017	Claire Zorn	One Would Think the Deep	University of Queensland Press	^[58]
2018	Cath Crowley, Fiona Wood, and Simmone Howell	Take Three Girls	Pan Macmillan	^[59]
2019	Clare Atkins	Between Us	Black Inc.	^[60]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref.
2020	Vikki Wakefield	This Is How We Change the Ending	Text Publishing	^[61]
2021	Davina Bell	The End of the World is Bigger than Love	Text Publishing	^[62]
2022	Rebecca Lim	Tiger Daughter	Allen & Unwin	^[63]
2023	Tom Taylor	Neverlanders	Penguin Random House	^[64]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
1948	Veronica Basser	Ponny the Penguin	Australasian Publishing Co.	^[4]
	Ada Jackson	Beetles A'Hoy!	Paterson's Press
	James H. Martin and W. D. Martin	The Australian Book of Trains	Angus and Robertson
	Musette Morell	Bush Cobbers	Australasian Publishing Co.
	Leslie Rees	The Story of Shadow, the Rock Wallaby	John Sands

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref.
1959	Elyne Mitchell	The Silver Brumby	Hutchinson	^[15]
	Frank Norton	Australian and New Zealand Ships of Today	Angus and Robertson
	Eve Pownall	Exploring Australia	Methuen
	Patricia Wrightson	The Bunyip Hole	Angus and Robertson

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref.
1960	Dale Collins	Anzac Adventure	Angus and Robertson	^[16]
	Eleanor Spence	The Summer in Between	Oxford University Press
	Norman Barnett Tindale and H. A. Lindsay	Rangatira	Rigby
1961	Alan Aldous	Doctor With Wings	Brockhampton	^[17]
	Elyne Mitchell	Silver Brumby's Daughter	Hutchinson
	Eleanor Spence	Lillipilly Hill	Oxford University Press
1962	Ruth Park	The Hole in the Hill	Ure Smith	^[18]
	Betty Roland	The Forbidden Bridge	Bodley Head
	Colin Thiele	Sun on the Stubble	Rigby
1964	Nan Chauncy	The Roaring 40	Oxford University Press	^[20]
	Joan Phipson	Threat to the Barkers	Angus and Robertson
	Colin Thiele	Storm Boy	Rigby
1965	Nan Chauncy	High and Haunted Island	Oxford University Press	^[21]
	Mary Durack	The Courteous Savage	Nelson
	Nuri Mass	The Wonderland of Nature	Writers' Press
	Elyne Mitchell	Winged Skis	Hutchinson
	Carol Odell	A Day at the Zoo	Angus and Robertson
	Betty Roland	Jamie's Summer Visitor	Bodley Head
1966	Reginald Ottley	By the Sandhills of Yamboorah	Deutsch	^[22]
	Ivan Southall	Indonesian Journey	Lansdowne Press
	Eleanor Spence	The Year of the Currawong	Oxford University Press
	Colin Thiele	February Dragon	Rigby
1967	Max Fatchen	The River Kings	Hicks Smith	^[65]
	Reginald Ottley	The Roan Colt of Yamboorah	Deutsch
	Celia Syred	Cocky's Castle	Angus and Robertson
1968	H. F. Brinsmead	A Sapphire for September	Oxford University Press	^[24]
	Nan Chauncy	Mathinna's People	Oxford University Press
	Mavis Thorpe Clark	Blue Above the Trees	Lansdowne
	Ivan Southall	The Fox Hole	Hicks Smith
	Randolph Stow	Midnite	F. W. Cheshire
1969	George Finkel	The Loyall Virginian	Angus and Robertson	^[25]
	John Goode	Wood, Wire and Fabric	Lansdowne
	Jack Pollard	Cricket the Australian Way	Lansdowne
	Robert Shaw	Wandjina: Children of the Dream Time	Jacaranda
	Ivan Southall	Let the Balloon Go	Methuen Hicks Smith
	Phil and Noel Wallace	Children of the Desert	Nelson
	Patricia Wrightson	I Own the Racecourse	Hutchinson

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref.
1970	Diedre Hill	Over the Bridge	Hutchinson	^[66]
	Marjory O'Dea	Six Days Between a Second	Heinemann	^[66]
	Reginald Ottley	The Bates Family	Collins	^[66]
	P. W. Smith	Ombley-Gombley	Angus and Robertson	^[66]
	Ivan Southall	Finn's Folly	Angus and Robertson	^[66]
	Colin Thiele	Blue Fin	Rigby	^[66]
1971	George Finkel	James Cook, Royal Navy	Angus and Robertson	^[67]
	Hui-min Lo	The Story of China	Angus and Robertson	^[67]
	Lilith Norman	Climb a Lonely Hill	Collins	^[67]
1972	David Martin	Hughie	Nelson	^[68]
1972	Christobel Mattingley	The Windmill at Magpie Creek	Brockhampton Press	^[68]
1973	Meredith Hooper	Everyday Inventions	Hutchinson	^[29]
1973	Patricia Wrightson	An Older Kind of Magic	Angus and Robertson	^[29]