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Australian Children's Book of the Year Award - Book of the Year / Older Readers

The first Australian Children’s Book of the Year Award was made in 1946. At that time and until 1952, there was but a single category of award.

In 1952 a category for the picture books was created, a Younger Readers category in 1982, the Eve Pownall Award for Non-Fiction in 1993, and the Early Childhood in 2001.

This award became the Book of the Year: Older Readers in 1987.

There were no awards given in 1947, 1949 & 1975.

There were ties in 1953, 1962 & 1994.

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1.
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 The Story of Karrawingi The Emu
by Leslie Rees
  
2.
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 Shackleton's Argonauts: A Saga of the Antarctic Icepacks by Frank Hurley  
3.
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 Whalers of the midnight sun;: A story of modern whaling in the Antarctic. Illustrated with woodcuts by Charles Pont
by Alan John Villiers
  
4.
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 Verity of Sydney Town
by Ruth Williams
  
5.
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 The Australia Book by Eve Pownall  
6.
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 Good Luck To The Rider  
7.
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 Aircraft of today and tomorrow,
by James Henry Martin
  
8. Australian Legendary Tales
by Katie Langloh Parker
  
9.
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 The First Walkabout
by Norman B. Tindale and H. A. Lindsay
  
10.
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 The Crooked Snake
by Patricia Wrightson
  
11.
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 The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales.
by Enid Moodie (chosen, edited and arranged by). Heddle
  
12.
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 Tiger in the Bush (Puffin Books)
by Nan Chauncy
  
13.
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 Devil's Hill
by Nan Chauncy
  
14.
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 All the Proud Tribesmen
by Kyle Tennant
  
15.
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 Tangara
by Nan Chauncey
  
16.
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 The Racketty Street Gang
by L. H. Evers
  
17.
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 Rafferty Rides a Winner
by Joan Woodberry
  
18.
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 The Family Conspiracy
by Joan Phipson
  
19.
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 The Green Laurel by Eleanor Spence  
20. Pastures Of The Blue Crane
by Hesba Brinsmead
  
21. Ash Road
by Ivan Southall
  
22.
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 THE MIN-MIN. Illust. by Genevieve Melrose.
by Mavis Thorpe Clark
  
23.
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 To the Wild Sky
by Ivan Francis Southall
  
24.
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 When Jays Fly To Barbmo
by Balderson
  
25.
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 Uhu by Annette Macarthur - Onslow  
26.
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 Bread and Honey
by Ivan Southall
  
27.
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 Longtime Passing
by Hesba Brinsmead
  
28.
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 Family at the Lookout
by Noreen Shelley
  
29.
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 The Nargun and the Stars
by Patricia Wrightson
  
30.
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 Fly West by Ivan Southall  
31.
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 The October Child
by Eleanor Spence
  
32.
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 The Ice Is Coming
by Patricia Wrightson
  
33. The Plum-Rain Scroll
by Ruth Manley
  
34.
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 Displaced Person by Lee Harding  
35. Playing Beatie Bow (Puffin Books)
by Ruth Park
  
36.
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 The Valley Between
by Colin Thiele
  
37. Master of the Grove
by Victor Kelleher
  
38.
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 A Little Fear
by Wrightson
  
39.
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 The True Story of Lilli Stubeck
by James Aldridge
  
40.
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 The Green Wind  
41.
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 All We Know by Simon French  
42. So Much to Tell You
by John Marsden
  
43.
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 Beyond the Labyrinth
by Gillian Rubinstein
  
44. Came Back to Show You I Could Fly (Puffin Books)
by Robin Klein
  
45.
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 Strange Objects
by Gary Crew
  
46.
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 The House Guest by Eleanor Nilsson  
47. Looking for Alibrandi
by Melina Marchetta
  
48.
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 The Gathering by Isobelle Carmody  
49. Angel's Gate
by Gary Crew
  
50. Foxspell
by Gillian Rubinstein
  
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Created by fairywhispers on Apr 05, 2008.