Aurealis Award for best children's book

The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and Conflux Inc to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers".^[1] To qualify, a work must have been first published by an Australian citizen or permanent resident between 1 January and 31 December of the current year;^[2] the presentation ceremony is held the following year. It has grown from a small function of around 20 people to a two-day event attended by over 200 people.^[3]

Since their creation in 1995, awards have been given in various categories of speculative fiction. Categories currently include science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative young-adult fiction—with separate awards for novels and short fiction—collections, anthologies, illustrative works or graphic novels, children's books, and an award for excellence in speculative fiction.^[1] The awards have attracted the attention of publishers by setting down a benchmark in science fiction and fantasy. The continued sponsorship by publishers such as HarperCollins and Orbit has identified the award as an honour to be taken seriously.^[4]

The results are decided by a panel of judges from a list of submitted nominees; the long-list of nominees is reduced to a short-list of finalists.^[1] Ties can occur if the panel decides both entries show equal merit, however they are encouraged to choose a single winner.^[5] The judges may declare a "no award" if there is unanimous agreement that none of the nominees are worthy.^[5] The judges are selected from a public application process by the Award's management team.^[6]

This article lists all the short-list nominees and winners in the best children's book category which replaces the following two previous categories for children's fiction:

• Aurealis Award for best children's fiction (told primarily through words)
• Aurealis Award for best children's fiction (told primarily through pictures)

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the book's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article. Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list. If the short story was originally published in a book with other stories rather than by itself or in a magazine, the book title is included after the publisher's name.

  *   Winners and joint winners
  *   Nominees on the shortlist

References

External links

• Aurealis Awards official site