2022 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.

• Ellie’s Dragon
  Bob Graham
• Miss Kraken
  Nicki Greenberg
• No! Never!
  Libby Hathorn, Lisa Hathorn-Jarman & Mel Pearce
• Not Cute
  Philip Bunting
• Pig the Monster
  Aaron Blabey
• There’s No Such Thing
  Heidi McKinnon
• Three
  Stephen Michael King
• Whitney and Britney, Chicken Divas
  Lucinda Gifford
• Wombat
  Philip Bunting
• Your Birthday Was the Best!
  Maggie Hutchings & Felicita Sala

• Alice-Miranda at Camp
  Jacqueline Harvey
• Billie B Brown: The Best Day Ever
  Sally Rippin & Aki Fukuoka
• Ella and Olivia #19: Note Perfect
  Yvette Poshoglian & Danielle McDonald
• Ella Diaries #12: Total TV Drama
  Meredith Costain & Danielle McDonald
• Hot Dog #5: Camping Time!
  Anh Do & Dan McGuiness
• Ninja Kid #5: Ninja Clones
  Anh Do & Anton Emdin
• Real Pigeons #2: Eat Danger
  Andrew McDonald & Ben Wood
• The Bad Guys #13: Cut to the Chase
  Aaron Blabey
• WeirDo #17: Spinning Weird!
  Anh Do & Jules Faber
• What Zola Did on Thursday
  Melina Marchetta & Deb Hudson

• Ella at Eden #5: The School Spy
  Laura Sieveking
• Friday Barnes #8: Never Fear
  R.A. Spratt
• Funny Kid #9: Prank Aliens
  Matt Stanton
• H is for Happiness
  Barry Jonsberg
• Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables on the Lookout
  Tim Harris & James Hart
• The 143-Storey Treehouse
  Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton
• Nevermoor #1: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
  Jessica Townsend
• The Little Wave
  Pip Harry
• The Right Way to Rock
  Nat Amoore
• Wolf Girl #6: Animal Train
  Anh Do & Lachlan Creagh

• Always
  Morris Gleitzman
• The Edge of Thirteen
  Nova Weetman
• Finding Serendipity
  Angelica Banks
• The Secrets We Share
  Nova Weetman
• Take Three Girls
  Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell & Fiona Wood
• The Book of Chance
  Sue Whiting
• The Grandest Bookshop in the World
  Amelia Mellor
• The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst
  Jaclyn Moriarty & Kelly Canby
• Through My Eyes: Hotaka
  John Heffernan
• We Are Wolves
  Katrina Nannestad