Children's Book of the Year Awards 2007

The Children's Book Council of Australia's shortlist for the Children's Book of the Year award has been announced. A PDF of the entire list can be downloaded here and listed below with Manly Library call numbers (the book may be on loan, but you can check on our online catalogue and place holds there).

Book of the Year: Older Readers
Don't call me Ishmael!: Bauer, Michael Gerard - YAPB /B
One whole and perfect day: Clarke, Judith - YAPB /C
Monster blood tattoo book 1: Foundling: Cornish, D. M. - YA /CORN
The red shoe: Dubosarsky, Ursula - YAPB /D
Red spikes: Lanagan, Margo - YA /LANA
My big birkett: Shanahan, Lisa - YAPB /S

Book of the Year: Younger Readers
Being Bee: Bateson, Catherine (Young Adult Fiction) - JF /BATE
The tuckshop kid: Flynn, Pat (Young Adult Fiction) - JPB /F
Macbeth and son: French, Jackie - JF /FREN
The cat on the mat is flat: Griffiths, Andy - JF /GRIF
Bird & Sugar Boy: Laguna, Sofie - YAPB /L
Layla, Queen of hearts: Millard, Glenda - Held at Lanecove, Stanton, Mosman, Chatswood

Book of the Year: Early Childhood
Grandpa and Thomas and the green umbrella: Allen, Pamela - EA /ALLE
Doodledum dancing: Costain, Meredith - EA /COST
Ella Kazoo will not brush her hair: Fox, Lee - Held at Lanecove, Stanton, Chatswood
Amy & Louis: Gleeson, Libby - EA /GLEE
Eight: Lee, Lyn - EA /LEE
Chatterbox: Wild, Margaret - EA /WILD

Picture Book of the Year
Brian Banana Duck Sunshine Yellow: McKimmie, Chris - Held at Mosman, Stanton
Home: Oliver, Narelle - Held at Lanecove, Stanton
Water Witcher: Ormerod, Jan - EA /ORME
The Rainbirds: Rippin, Sally - EA /METZ
Woolvs in the sitee: Spudvilas, Anne - QJF /WILD
The Arrival: Tan, Shaun - QJF /TAN

Eve Pownell Award for Information Books
Red haze: Australians & New Zealanders in Vietnam: Davidson, Leon - J 959.7043
Queenie: one elephant's story: Fenton, Corinne - EA /FENT
Amazing facts about Australian dinosaurs: Hocknull, Scott - Held at Lanecove, Stanton
All cats have Asperger Syndrome: Hoopmann, Kathy - EA /RED DOT
The penguin book: birds in suits: Norman, Mark - J 598.47/MOR
Leaf litter: Tonkin, Rachel - Held at Lanecove, Stanton

Holdings information correct as at 25th May 2007.
The CBCA also runs Children's Book Week which this year is 18th -24th of August.