| Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Excellence in Australian high school books |
| Presented by | Children's Book Council of Australia |
| Country | 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]
Contents |
| 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 |
| 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 | The Gathering | Penguin Books |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Kylie Tennant, illustrated by Clem Seale | All the Proud Tribesmen | Macmillan |
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Nan Chauncy, illustrated by Margaret Horder | Devil's Hill | Oxford University Press |
| 1958 | Nan Chauncy | Tiger in the Bush | Oxford University Press |
| 1957 | Enid Moodie-Heddle (ed.), illustrated by Nancy Parker | The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales | Longmans Green |
| 1956 | Patricia Wrightson, illustrated by Margaret Horder | The Crooked Snake | Angus and Robertson |
| 1955 | Norman B. Tindale & Lindsay, Harold Arthur Lindsay,
illustrated by Madeleine Boyce |
The First Walkabout | Longmans Green |
| 1954 | K. Langloh Parker, edited by Henrietta Drake-Brockman,
illustrated by Elizabeth Durack |
Australian Legendary Tales | Angus and Robertson |
| 1953 | Joan Phipson, illustrated by Margaret Horder | Good Luck to the Rider | Angus and Robertson |
| 1952 | Eve Pownall, illustrated by Margaret Senior | The Australia Book | John Sands |
| 1951 | Ruth C. Williams, illustrated by Rhys Williams | Verity of Sydney Town | Angus and Robertson |
| 1950 | Alan J. Villiers, illustrated by Charles Pont | Whalers of the Midnight Sun | Angus and Robertson |
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | No competition | ||
| 1948 | Frank Hurley | Shackleton's Argonauts: A Saga of the Antarctic Icepacks | Angus and Robertson |
| 1947 | No award | ||
| 1946 | Leslie Rees, illustrated by Walter Cunningham | The Story of Karrawingi the Emu | John Sands |