2015 Shortlist

During Term 1 each year children across Victoria are asked to recommend their favourite Australian books to other children by nominating four Australian titles.

All nominations are collated and the 10 books with the most nominations in each of the award categories are the shortlisted books for that year. Students are then encouraged to read as many of these books across Term 2 and Term 3 that they can.

All this reading is leading to each student rewarding their very favourite book during the voting process in early Term 4.

• King Pig – Nick Bland
• Max – Marc Martin
• Mr Chicken Lands on London – Leigh Hobbs
• My Uncle’s Donkey – Tohby Riddle
• Noni the Pony – Alison Lester
• Pig the Pug – Aaron Blabey
• The Fearsome Frightening Ferocious Box – Frances Watts – David Legge
• The Tall Man and the Twelve Babies – Tom Niland Champion – Kilmeny Niland – Deborah Niland
• The Terrible Plop – Ursula Dubosarsky- Andew Joyner
• Tortoise and the hair – P. Crumble – Louis Shea

• Brotherband: The Slaves of Socorro – John Flanagan
• Con-Nerd – Oliver Phommavanh
• Eric Vale: Super Male – Michael Gerard Bauer – Joe Bauer
• My Life and Other Stuff I Made Up – Tristan Bancks – Gus Gordon
• New City – Deb Abela
• Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfried – Steven Herrick
• Specky Magee and the Best of Oz – Felice Arena and Garry Lyon
• The 52-Storey Treehouse – Andy Griffiths – Terry Denton
• The Sequin Star – Belinda Murrell
• WeirDo: Extra Weird – Anh Do – Jules Faber

• Alice Miranda in Japan – Jacqueline Harvey
• Andy Roid and the Avalanche of Evil – Felice Arena
• Billie B Brown: The Bully Buster – Sally Rippin – Aki Fukuoka
• Don’t Look Now Book 4 – Paul Jennings – Andrew Weldon
• EJ 12: Time to Shine – Susannah McFarlane
• OAG: Meet Grace – Sofie Laguna – Lucia Masciullo
• OAG: Meet Letty – Alison Lloyd – Lucia Masciullo
• Pizza Cake – Morris Gleitzman
• The Lost Circus: The Last Elephant – Justin D’Ath
• You Choose: The Treasure of Dead Man’s Cove – George Ivanoff

• Fire in the Sea – Myke Bartlett
• My Life As an Alphabet – Barry Jonsberg
• The Last Thirteen: 12 – James Phelan
• The Sky So Heavy – Claire Zorn
• The Wrong Boy – Suzy Zail
• Through My Eyes: Naveed – John Heffernan – Lynette White
• Through My Eyes: Shahana – Rosanne Hawke – Lynette White
• Two Wolves – Tristan Bancks
• When We Were Two – Robert Newton
• Wildlife – Fiona Wood