It's Book Week!

It's Book Week here in Australia - our favourite week of the year! and we are set for a wonderful week of celebration following the Book of the Year announcements last Friday. Just a little refresher - here are the nominees for Book of the Year in five categories, with our winners highlighted in red. This week we'll also be reposting the reviews of the books we've featured here on KBR.

See the Children's Book Council of Australia website for more information on the Notable Books and Chrichton Shortlist for new illustrators.

Book of the Year: Older Readers
Crowley, Cath	Graffiti Moon	Pan Macmillan Australia
Hartnett, Sonya	The Midnight Zoo	Viking Books, Penguin Group (Australia)
Horniman, Joanne	About a Girl	Allen & Unwin
MacLeod, Doug	The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher	Penguin Books, Penguin Group (Australia)
Marchetta, Melina	The Piper’s Son	Penguin Books, Penguin Group (Australia)
Wood, Fiona	Six Impossible Things	Pan Macmillan Australia

Book of the Year: Younger Readers
Bauer, Michael Gerard	Just a Dog	Omnibus Books, Scholastic Australia
Bongers, Christine	Henry Hoey Hobson	Woolshed Press, Random House Australia
Branford, Anna Ill. Sarah Davis	Violet Mackerel’s Brilliant Plot	Walker Books Australia
Carmody, Isobelle	The Red Wind	Viking Books, Penguin Group (Australia)
McKinlay, Meg Ill. Leila Rudge	Duck for a Day	Walker Books Australia
Murphy, Sally Ill. Rhian Nest James	Toppling	Walker Books Australia

Book of the Year: Early Childhood
Champion, Tom Niland & Niland, Kilmeny Ill. Deborah Niland	The Tall Man and the Twelve Babies	Allen & Unwin
Dubosarsky, Ursula Ill. Mitch Vane	The Deep End	Puffin Books, Penguin Group (Australia)
Lester, Alison	Noni the Pony	Allen & Unwin
Niland, Deborah	It’s Bedtime, William!	Viking Books, Penguin Group (Australia)
Norrington, Leonie Ill. Dee Huxley	Look See, Look at Me!	Allen & Unwin
Ormerod, Jan Ill. Freya Blackwood	Maudie and Bear	Little Hare Books

Picture Book of the Year
Baker, Jeannie	Mirror	Walker Books
Bancroft, Bronwyn	Why I Love Australia	Little Hare Books
Greenberg, Nikki	Hamlet	Allen & Unwin
Kane, Kim Ill. Lucia Masciullo	Family Forest	Hardie Grant Egmont
McKimmie, Chris	Two Peas in a Pod	Allen & Unwin
Riddle, Tohby	My Uncle’s Donkey	Viking Books, Penguin Group (Australia)

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
Brasch, Nicolas	Theme Parks, Playgrounds and Toys	Macmillan Education Australia
Brooks, Ron	Drawn from the Heart: A Memoir	Allen & Unwin
Davidson, Leon	Zero Hour: The Anzacs on the Western Front	The Text Publishing Company
Dubosarsky, Ursula Illustrated by Tohby Riddle	The Return of the Word Spy	Viking, Penguin Group (Australia)
Lloyd, Alison Illustrated by Terry Denton	Wicked Warriors & Evil Emperors: The True Story of the Fight for Ancient China	Puffin Books, Penguin Group (Australia)
One Arm Point Remote Community School	Our World: Bardi Jaawi: Life at Ardiyooloon	Magabala Books