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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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