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May 04

2019 Shortlist

  • May 4, 2019
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  • Announcements, 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.

Picture Story Books

  • Crabbing With Dad
    Paul Seden
  • Go Go And The Silver Shoes
    Jane Godwin & Anna Walker
  • Leonard The Lyrebird
    Jodie McLeod & Eloise Short
  • Mopoke
    Philip Bunting
  • Pig The Star
    Aaron Blabey
  • Rodney Loses It!
    Michael Gerard Bauer & Chrissie Krebs
  • Seriously, Do Not Open This Book!
    Andy Lee & Heath McKenzie
  • The Fabulous Friend Machine
    Nick Bland
  • Too Many Cheeky Dogs
    Johanna Bell & Dion Beasley
  • When I Grow Up
    Andrew Daddo & Johnathan Bentley

Fiction for Younger Readers

  • Alice Miranda In Scotland
    Jacqueline Harvey
  • Bad Guys: Do-You-Think-He-Saurus?
    Aaron Blabey
  • Billie B Brown: The Bully Buster
    Sally Rippin & Aki Fukuoka
  • Ella And Olivia: Popstar Sisters
    Yvette Poshoglian & Danielle McDonald
  • Ella Diaries: Double Dare You
    Meredith Costain & Danielle McDonaldr
  • Hotdog!: Camping Time!
    Anh Do & Dan McGuiness
  • Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables Fight Back
    Tim Harris & James Hart
  • Sporty Kids: Little Athletics
    Felice Arena & Tom Jellett
  • The Stupendously Spectacular Spelling Bee
    Deborah Abela
  • Weirdo: Splashy Weird!
    Anh Do & Jules Faber

Fiction for Older Readers

  • 52 Mondays
    Anna Ciddor
  • Fearless Frederic
    Felice Arena
  • Finding Serendipity
    Angelica Banks
  • Funny Kid For President
    Matt Stanton
  • Help Around The House
    Morris Gleitzman
  • Nevermoor :The Trials Of Morrigan Crow
    Jessica Townsend
  • So Wrong 2
    Michael Wagner & Wayne Bryant
  • The 104-Storey Treehouse
    Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton
  • The Forgotten Pearl
    Belinda Murrell
  • You Choose: Alien Invaders From Beyond The Stars
    George Ivanoff

Fiction for Years 7-9

  • A Song Only I Can Hear
    Barry Jonsberg
  • Akarnae
    Lynette Noni
  • Everything I’ve Never Said
    Samantha Wheeler
  • In The Dark Spaces
    Cally Black
  • Maybe
    Morris Gleitzman
  • Take Three Girls
    Cath Crowley & Simmone Howell & Fiona Wood
  • The Build-Up Season
    Megan Jacobson
  • The Endsister
    Penni Russon
  • The Girl From Snowy River
    Jackie French
  • The Sky So Heavy
    Claire Zorn
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