It’s that time of year and I get asked for these titles all the time, so here they are.
An Aussie Night Before Christmas – Yvonne Morrison/Kilmeny Niland
An Aussie Day Before Christmas – Kilmeny Niland
Santa’s Aussie Holiday – Maria Farrer/Anna Walker
Six White Boomers – Rolf Harris/Bruce Whatley
Aussie Jingle Bells – Colin Buchanan/Nick Bland
Fair Dinkum Aussie Christmas – Colin Buchanan/Kilmeny Niland
The Children’s Book Council of Australia announced their Book Of The Year winners and honour books today.
A big congratulations to all winners and honour recipients as well as all those who were short-listed.
Older Readers
Sonya Hartnett – The Midnight Zoo
Cath Crowley – Graffiti Moon
Doug MacLeod – The Life of a Teenage Bodysnatcher
Younger Readers
Isobelle Carmody – The Red Wind
Michael Gerard Bauer- Just a Dog
Anna Branford, Ill. Sarah Davis- Violet Mackerel’s Brilliant Plot
Early Childhood
Jan Ormerod, Ill. Freya Blackwood – Maudie and Bear
Tom Niland Champion, Kilmeny Niland, Ill. Deborah Niland – The Tall Man and Twelve Babies
Leonie Norrington, Ill. Dee Huxley – Look See, Look At Me!
Picture Book
Jeannie Baker – Mirror
Nikki Greenberg – Hamlet
Bronwyn Bancroft – Why I Love Australia
Tohby Riddle – My Uncle’s Donkey
Crichton Winner
Clare McFadden – The Flying Orchestra
TheKylieVerse 
