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  • 2008 CBCA Awards

Congratulations to WA Authors and Illustrators listed in the
2009 Book of the Year Awards

Note:
1. Authors or illustrators from other states are indicated in square brackets
2. Congratulations to WA publishers: 
    Fremantle Press, Kondinin Group and the Department of Environment and Conservation

Book of the Year Shortlist

Older Readers
Anthony Eaton (author) Into White Silence (Woolshed Press, Random House Australia)
Shaun Tan (author/illustrator) Tales from Outer Suburbia (Allen & Unwin)

Picture Book of the Year 
Matt Ottley (illustrator) [John Marsden Victorian author] Home and Away (Lothian, Hachette Australia)

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
Mark Greenwood (author) and Frané Lessac (illustrator) Simpson and His Donkey (Walker Books)
Catriona Nicholls [Tasmanian author] and Janet Paterson (author) Rod Waller (illustrator) Chicken (Kondinin Group)
Jan Ramage (author) and Ellen Hickman (illustrator) Tuart Dwellers (Department of Environment and Conservation, WA)

Crichton Award for New Illustrators Shortlist

Moira Court (illustrator) text Elaine Forrestal Miss Llewellyn-Jones (Fremantle Press)
 

Notable Australian Children's Books

Older Readers
Anthony Eaton (author) Into White Silence (Woolshed Press, Random House Australia)
L.S. Lawrence (author aka Dave Luckett) Escape by Sea (Omnibus/Scholastic Australia)
John Marsden [Victorian author] and Matt Ottley (illustrator) Home and Away (Lothian, Hachette Australia)
Shaun Tan (author/illustrator) Tales from Outer Suburbia (Allen & Unwin)

Younger Readers
Victoria Bowen (author aka Rayma Turton) War's End  (Woolshed Press, Random House Australia)
Norman Jorgensen (author) Jack's Island (Fremantle Press)
Anthony Eaton (author) Nathan Nuttboard Upstaged (UQP)

Early Childhood
Elaine Forrestal (author) and Moira Court (illustrator) Miss Llewellyn-Jones (Fremantle Press)
Nigel Gray (author) and [Elise Hurst illlustrator] The Flood (Windy Hollow Books)
Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina (author/illustrators) Two-Hearted Wombat (Fremantle Press)

Picture Book of the Year 
Elaine Forrestal (author) Moira Court (illustrator) Miss Llewellyn-Jones (Fremantle Press)
Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina (author/illustrators) Two-Hearted Wombat (Fremantle Press)
[John Marsden Victorian author] and Matt Ottley (illustrator) Home and Away (Lothian, Hachette Australia)
Jan Ramage (author) and Ellen Hickman (illustrator) Tuart Dwellers (Department of Environment and Conservation, WA)
Shaun Tan (author/illustrator) Tales from Outer Suburbia (Allen & Unwin)

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
 Mark Greenwood (author) and Frané Lessac (illustrator) Simpson and His Donkey (Walker Books)
Catriona Nicholls[Tasmanian author] and Janet Paterson (author), Rod Waller (illustrator) Chicken (Kondinin Group)
Jan Ramage (author) and Ellen Hickman (illustrator) Tuart Dwellers (DEC,WA)

 

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