Book of the Year

This week, the Children’s Book Council of Australia announced the winners of the Children’s Book of the Year. The winning titles in each of the categories are:

Older readers

• Winner – Between Us (Clare Atkins)
• Honour books – Small Spaces (Sarah Epstein) and Lenny’s Book of Everything (Karen Foxlee)

Younger readers

• Winner – His Name Was Walter (Emily Rodda)
• Honour books – Black Cockatoo (Carl Merrison & Hakea Hustler) and The Peacock Detectives (Carly Nugent)

Early childhood

• Winner – Tricky’s Bad Day (Alison Lester)
• Honour Books – Heads and Tails: Insects (John Canty) and Here Comes Stinkbug! (Tohby Riddle)

Picture book

• Winner – Cicada (Shaun Tan)
• Honour books – The Mediterranean (Armin Greder) and The All New Must Have Orange 430 (Michael Speechley)

Eve Pownall Award for information books

• Winner – Sorry Day (Coral Vass)
• Honour books – The Happiness Box: A Wartime Book of Hope (Mark Greenwood) and Make Believe: M. C. Escher for Kids (National Gallery of Victoria)

Crichton Award for debut illustrator

• Daniel Gray-Barnett for Grandma Z

As part of our Book Week celebrations, PCGs and Prep – Year 6 classes were challenged to respond to the Book Week theme: Reading is my Secret Power. Students had to come up with a problem and then think about ways in which reading could solve the problem. They could present their solution in any format they liked.

Congratulations to our winner – the Year 6 classes for their video about the power of reading.

Ms Nell Keen, Head of Library