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THE CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS


This is the complete list of notable books chosen by the CBCA judges in this category for 2003. The list should be read with the judges' comments, recommendations and reservations as published in The Notable Australian Children's Books 2003. Copies may be available.

 
 
 Notable Books 2003 Older Readers

Aldridge, James (Short List)
The Girl by the Sea
Penguin Books Australia, 2002
 
Baillie, Alan
The Treasure Hunters
Puffin, Penguin Books Australia, 2002
Bateson, Catherine (Short List)
Painted Love Letters
UQP, Young Adult Press, 2002
 
Blake, Bronwyn
Rock Dancer
Lothian YA Fiction, Lothian Books, 2002
Bone, Ian (Short List)
The Song of an Innocent Bystander
Penguin Books Australia, 2002
 
Brugman, Alyssa (Short List)
Walking Naked
Allen & Unwin, 2002
 
Burke, J. C
White Lies
Lothian YA Fiction, Lothian Books, 2002
Constable, Kate
The Singer of all Songs (Chanters of Tremaris Series, Book one)
Allen & Unwin, 2002
Corbet, Robert
Fifteen Love
Allen & Unwin, 2002
 
Crew, Gary
The Diviner’s Son
Pan Macmillan Australia, 2002
 
Croggon, Alison
The Gift
(Pellinor, the Treesong Trilogy; Book 1)
Penguin Books, Australia, 2002
Earls, Nick
Making Laws for Clouds
Penguin Books, Australia, 2002
 
Horniman, Joanne
A Charm of Powerful Trouble
Allen & Unwin, 2002
 
Lowe, Pat
Feeling the Heat
Penguin Books, Australia, 2002
 
Mansfield, Stephen
Have you seen Byron Lichen?
KidsKollective, 2002
 
Masson, Sophie (ed.)
The Road to Camelot
Random House Australia, 2002
 
McCarthy, Maureen
When You Wake and Find Me Gone
Penguin Books Australia, 2002
 
McDonald, Meme and Pryor, Boori Monty (Short List)
Njunjul, the Sun
Allen & Unwin, 2002
Metzenthen, David
Wildlight
Penguin Books Australia, 2002
 
Ridden, Brian
Sweet Tea
Lothian YA Fiction, Lothian Books, 2002
Rippin, Sally
Chenxi and the Foreigner
Lothian YA Fiction, Lothian Books, 2002
Valentine, James
JumpMan
Random House Australia, 2002
 
Whitebeach, Terry & Brown, Michael
Bantam
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2002
 
Zusak, Marcus (Short List)
The Messenger
Pan Macmillan Australia, 2002
 

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