Short List 2015

  • The Book of the Year: Early Childhood
    Pig the Pug
    Aaron Blabey
    Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia
    ISBN: 9781743624777
    Scary Night
    Lesley Gibbes (Illust: Stephen Michael King)
    Working Title Press
    ISBN: 9781921504631
    Go to Sleep, Jessie!
    Libby Gleeson (Illust: Freya Blackwood)
    Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont
    ISBN: 9781742977805
    A House of Her Own
    Jenny Hughes (Illust: Jonathan Bentley)
    Hardie Grant Egmont
    ISBN: 9781742974620
    Snail and Turtle are Friends
    Stephen Michael King
    Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia
    ISBN: 9781743620236
    Noni the Pony goes to the Beach
    Alison Lester
    Allen & Unwin
    ISBN: 9781743311141
  • The Book of the Year: Older Readers
    Nona & Me
    Claire Atkins
    Black Inc.
    ISBN: 9781863956895
    Intruder
    Christine Bongers
    Random House Australia
    ISBN: 9780857983763
    Are You Seeing Me?
    Darren Groth
    Random House Australia
    ISBN: 9780857984739
    The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl
    Melissa Keil
    Hardie Grant Egmont
    ISBN: 9781742978307
    The Minnow
    Diana Sweeney
    Text Publishing
    ISBN: 9781922182012
    The Protected
    Claire Zorn
    University of Queensland Press
    ISBN: 9780702250194
  • The Book of the Year: Younger Readers
    Two Wolves
    Tristan Bancks
    Random House Australia
    ISBN: 9780857982032
    The Simple Things
    Bill Condon
    Allen & Unwin
    ISBN: 9781743317242
    The Cleo Stories The Necklace and the Present
    Libby Gleeson (Illust: Freya Blackwood)
    Allen & Unwin
    ISBN: 9781743315279
    Bleakboy and Hunter Stand out in the Rain
    Steven Herrick
    University of Queensland Press
    ISBN: 9780702250163
    Figgy in the World
    Tamsin Janu
    Omnibus Books, Scholastic Australia
    ISBN: 9781742990453
    Withering-by-Sea: a Stella Montgomery Intrigue
    Judith Rossell
    ABC Books, HarperCollins Publishers
    ISBN: 9780733333002
  • The Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
    A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land
    Simon Barnard
    Text Publishing
    ISBN: 9781922079343
    Coming of Age: Growing up Muslim in Australia
    Demet Divaroren ed.
    Allen & Unwin
    ISBN: 9781743312926
    Mary's Australia: How Mary Mackillop Changed Australia
    Pamela Freeman
    Black Dog Books, Walker Books Australia
    ISBN: 9781922077905
    Tea and Sugar Christmas
    Jane Jolly (Illust: Robert Ingpen)
    National Library of Australia
    ISBN: 9780642278630
    Emu
    Claire Saxby (Illust: Graham Byrne)
    Walker Books Australia
    ISBN: 9781922179708
    Audacity: Stories of Heroic Australians in Wartime
    Carlie Walker
    Department of Veterans Affairs
    ISBN: 9781877007934
  • The Picture Book of the Year
    Rivertime
    Trace Balla
    Allen & Unwin
    ISBN: 9781743316337
    My Two Blankets
    Freya Blackwood (Text: Irena Kobald)
    Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont
    ISBN: 9781921714764
    One Minute's Silence
    Michael Camilleri (Text: David Metzenthen)
    Allen & Unwin
    ISBN: 9781743316245
    Fire
    Jackie French (Illust: Bruce Whatley)
    Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia
    ISBN: 9781742838175
    The Duck and the Darklings
    Glenda Millard (Illust: Stephen Michael King)
    Allen & Unwin
    ISBN: 9781743312612
    The Stone Lion
    Margaret Wild (Illust: Riyva Voutila)
    Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont
    ISBN: 9781921894855