Every year Speech Pathology Australia hold their Book of the Year Awards. These books are awarded for being the Best Book for Language and Literacy Development, they do this for four categories: Young Children, Lower Primary, Upper Primary and Indigenous Children.
This years nominees are:
YOUNG CHILDREN
A Bus Called Heaven : Bob Graham
Christmas Wombat : Jackie French
Come Down, Cat! : Sonya Hartnett
For All Creatures : Glenda Millard
Let’s Go Baby-o : Janet McClean
No Bears : Meg McKinlay
Rudie, Nudie : Emma Quay
Ten Blue Wrens and What a Lot of Wattle! : Elizabeth Honey
That’s Not a Daffodil! : Elizabeth Honey
The Jewel Fish of Karnak : Graeme Base
The Little Dragon : Mem Fox
The Little Old Man Who Looked Up at the Moon : Pamela Allen
LOWER PRIMARY
Billie B Brown: The Little Lie : Sally Rippin
Nancy Bentley : The First Australian Female Sailor : Tracey Hawkins
Our Gags : Catriona Hoy
Ready, Set, Boris : Andrew Joyner
Sam the Cat : Sam Browning, Andrew McLean
Secret of the Sword : Sword Girl 1 : Frances Watts
Ships in the Field : Suzanne Gervay
Ted Goes Wild : Michael Wagner
The Great Expedition : Peter Carnavas
The Littlest Refugee : Ahn & Suzanne Do
Violet Mackeral’s Remarkable Recovery : Anna Branford
Walker Stories : Lollylegs : Pamela Freeman
UPPER PRIMARY
Crocodile Jack : Leonie Norrington
Father’s Day : Anne Brooksbank
Mort : Martin Chatterton
The Paradise Trap : Catherine Jinks
Pizza Cake : Morris Gleitzman
Taj and the Great Camel Trek : Roseanne Hawke
The Invisible Hero : Elizabeth Fensham
The Ivory Rose : Belinda Murrell
The Tender Moments of Saffron Silk : Glenda Millard
To Die For : Mark Svendsen
Too Small to Fail : Morris Gleitzman
Vinnie’s War : David McRobbie
INDIGENOUS CHILDREN
Darby Making Tracks : Anthony Turnbull
Hey Brother : Alwyn Owens
Kangaroos Hop : Ros Moriarty
Northern Territory Animals : The Galiwin’ku students of Shalom Christian College
Once : Deb Leffler
Ten Scared Fish : Ros Moriarty
The Snake and the Boy : Azmen Sebastian
We would like to offer huge congrats to all who made the lists and wish you all luck.
Comments on: "Speech Pathology Book of the Year 2012" (1)
You have some very good books listed here.