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The Winners of Children's Book Week

BOOK OF THE YEAR : OLDER READERS

Honour
Metzenthen, David
Gilbert's Ghost Train
(Scholastic Australia)

Honour
Winton, Tim
Lockie Leonard, Legend
(Pan Macmillan)

BOOK OF THE YEAR : YOUNGER READERS

Winner
Forrestal, Elaine
Someone Like Me
(Penguin Books Australia: Puffin)

Honour
Hirsch, Odo
(illus Andrew McLean)
Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman
(Allen & Unwin: A Little Ark Book)

Honour
Wrightson, Patricia
(illus David Cox)
Rattler's Place
(Penguin Books Australia: Puffin: Ausie Bites series)

PICTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR

Winner
Morimoto, Junko
(trans Isao Morimoto)
The Two Bullies
(Random House Australia: A Mark Macleod Book)

Honour
McLean, Andrew
(text Janet McLean)
Josh
(Allen & Unwin: A Little Ark Book)

Honour
Whatley, Bruce and Smith, Rosie
Detective Donut and the Wild Goose Chase
(HarperCollins)

EVE POWNAL AWARD FOR INFORMATION BOOKS

Winner
Nicholson, John
A Home among the Gum Trees - The Story of Australian Houses
Allen & Unwin

Honour
Toft, Kim Michelle and Sheather, Allan
(illus Kim Michelle Toft)
One Less Fish
(UQP: Jam Roll)

Honour
Dolan, Beth
Cathy Freeman
(Heinemann)

BOOK OF THE YEAR: OLDER READERS

(NB: Some of these books are for mature readers)

Baillie, Alan
The Last Shot
(Omnibus)

Jinks, Catherine
Eye to Eye
(Penguin)

Lowry, Brigid
Guitar Highway Rose
(Allen & Unwin)

Metzenthen, David
Gilbert's Ghost Train
(Scholastic)

Winton, Tim
Lockie Leonard, Legend
(Pan Macmillan)

Zurbo, Matt
Idiot Pride
(Penguin)

BOOK OF THE YEAR: YOUNGER READERS

Forrestal, Elaine
Someone Like Me
(Penguin)

Gleeson, Libby (illus David Cox)
Queen of the Universe
(Omnibus)

Hirsch, Odo (illus Andrew McLean)
Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman
(Allen & Unwin)

Klein, Robin
The Listmaker
(Penguin)

Syme, Marguerite Hann
Chickpea
(Scholastic)

Wrightson, Patricia (illus David Cox)
Rattler's Place
(Penguin)

PICTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR

(Some of these books may be for mature readers, arranged in alphabetical order by illustrator)

Clement, Rod
Grandad's Teeth
(HarperCollins)

Graham, Bob
Queenie the Bantam
(Walker Books)

McLean, Andrew (text Janet McLean)
Josh
(Allen & Unwin)

Morimoto, Junko
The Two Bullies
(Random House)

Riddle, Tohby
The Great Escape from City Zoo
(HarperCollins)

Whatley, Bruce (text Rosie Smith)
Detective Donut and the Wild Goose Chase
(HarperCollins)

EVE POWNALL AWARD FOR INFORMATION BOOKS

Dolan, Beth
Cathy Freeman
(Heinemann)

Kuchling, Gerald and Guundie
Yakkinn the Swanp Tortoise: Survival
(Era)

Morris, Jill (illus Sharon Dye)
The Wombat Who Talked to the Stars
(Greater Glider Productions)

Nicholson, John
A Home Among the Gum Trees
(Allen & Unwin)

Nicholson, John
Kimberley Warrior
(Allen & Unwin)

Toft, Kim Michelle & Sheather, Allan
One Less Fish
(UQP)