CATEGORIES

• The Dead I Know (Scot Gardner, A&U)

Honour books:

• A Straight Line to My Heart (Bill Condon, A&U)
• When We Were Two (Robert Newton, Penguin)

Younger Readers
Winner:

• Crow Country (Kate Constable, A&U)

Honour books:

• Nanberry: Black Brother White (Jackie French, Angus & Robertson)
• The Truth About Verity Sparks (Susan Green, Walker Books)

Early Childhood

Winner:

• The Runaway Hug (Nick Bland, illus by Freya Blackwood, Scholastic)

Honour books:

• Come Down Cat! (Sonya Hartnett, illus by Lucia Masciullo, Puffin)
• That’s Not a Daffodil! (Elizabeth Honey, A&U)

Picture Book of the Year

Winner:

• A Bus Called Heaven (Bob Graham, Walker Books)

Honour books:

• The Dream of the Thylacine (Margaret Wild & Ron Brooks, A&U)
• Flood (Jackie French & Bruce Whatley, Scholastic)

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

Winner:

• One Small Island: The Story of Macquarie Island (Alison Lester & Coral Tulloch, Penguin)

Honour book:

• The Little Refugee (Anh & Suzanne Do, illus by Bruce Whatley, A&U)

Crichton Award for Illustration:

• Ben & Duck (Sara Acton, Scholastic).