The CBCA Shortlist for 2015!

This year's theme. Used under fair usage

It's that time of year again. While I've been fussing about over the Hugos and the Ditrmars and the Aurealis Awards a bunch of judges across Australia have been reading hundreds of books and discussing them before making up their minds which should be shortlisted. 

 I pinched this list from the Reading's Website. You can check it out yourself, along with the Notables. As the author of two CBCA Notable Books(Potions To Pulsars: Women Doing Science - which also scored a place on the Clayton's shortlist -  and Wolfborn) I do urge you to check out the Notables too; sometimes there's a little as one vote between something that makes it to the shortlist and something that gets a Notable. And I was delighted to see how many of our Aurealis shortlisted books and nearly-shortlisted books made it to the Notables and one, Withering-By-Sea, made it to the shortlist itself. Great minds think alike, it seems.
Unfortunately, I've read very few of this year's shortlist and only two are in our library just now. Time to call Sun Bookshop and see if they can get us the rest before they run out!

Older Readers

• Nona & Me by Clare Atkins
• Intruder by Christine Bongers
• Are You Seeing Me? by Darren Groth
• The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl by Melissa Keil
• The Minnow by Diana Sweeney
• The Protected by Claire Zorn

Younger Readers

• Two Wolves by Tristan Bancks
• The Simple Things by Bill Condon with illustrations by Beth Norling
• The Cleo Stories: The Necklace and the Present by Libby Gleeson with illustrations by Freya Blackwood
• Bleakboy and Hunter Stand out in the Rain by Steven Herrick
• Figgy in the World by Tamsin Janu
• Withering-by-Sea: a Stella Montgomery Intrigue by Judith Rossell

Early Childhood

• Pig the Pug by Aaron Blabey
• Scary Night by Lesley Gibbes with illustrations by Stephen Michael King
• Go to Sleep, Jessie! by Libby Gleesonwith illustrations by Freya Blackwood
• A House of Her Own by Jenny Hughes with illustrations by Jonathan Bentley
• Snail and Turtle are Friends by Stephen Michael King
• Noni the Pony goes to the Beach by Alison Lester

Picture Book of the Year

• Rivertime by Trace Balla
• My Two Blankets by Irena Kobald with illustrations by Freya Blackwood
• One Minute’s Silence by David Metzenthen with illustrations by Michael Camilleri
• The Duck and the Darklings by Glenda Millard with illustrations by Stephen Michael King
• The Stone Lion by Margaret Wild with illustrations by Ritva Voutila
• Fire by Jackie French with illustrations by Bruce Whatley

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

• A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land by Simon Barnard
• Coming of Age: Growing up Muslim in Australia edited by Amra Pajalic and Demet Divaroren
• Mary’s Australia: How Mary Mackillop Changed Australia by Pamela Freeman
• Tea and Sugar Christmas by Jane Jolly with illustrations by Robert Ingpen
• Emu by Claire Saxby with illustrations by Graham Byrne
• Audacity: Stories of Heroic Australians in Wartime by Carlie Walker with illustrations by Brett Hatherly

Crichton Award for New Illustrators

• Rivertime by Trace Balla
• Kick with My Left Foot illustrated by Karen Briggs with text by Paul Seden
• One Minute’s Silence illustrated by Michael Camilleri with text by David Metzenthen
• Little Dog and the Christmas Wish illustrated by Robin Cowcher with text by Corinne Fenton
• Meet Douglas Mawson illustrated by Snip Green with text by Mike Dumbleton
• The Lost Girl illustrated by Leanne Tobin with text by Ambelin Kwaymullina

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