Australian
The Readings Children’s Book Prize
Song For A Scarlet Runner by Julie Hunt
The Inkys (Australia’s teen choice awards)
The First Third by Will Kostakis
CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers
Wildlife by Fiona Wood
YABBA Award (children’s choice book award for Victoria) for Younger Readers
Billie B Brown: The Best Project by Sally Rippin
Speech Pathology Australia Awards, Indigenous children category
Deadly D & Justice Jones – Making the Team by Scott Prince and Dave Hartley
Crichton Award For New Illustrators
Big Red Kangaroo illustrated by Graham Byrne
The Eve Pownall Award For Information Books
Jeremy by Christopher Faille and Danny Snell
International
Newbery Medal
Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
New Zealand Book Awards, Children’s Choice
The Three Bears…Sort Of by Yvonne Morrison and Donovan Bixley
Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (UK)
The Last Wild by Piers Torday
The Kate Greenaway Medal
This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen
Geisel Award for beginning readers
The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli
The National Book Award (USA)
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation (awarded biennially)
In The Sea There Are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda, translated by Howard Curtis
