Children's Shortlisted Books For 2009

For Older Readers

Monster Blood Tattoo Book Two: Lamplighter - D. M. Cornish

Into White Silence - Anthony Eaton

A Rose for the Anzac Boys - Jackie French

Finnikin of the Rock - Melina Marchetta

Kill the Possum - James Moloney

WINNER! - Tales from Outer Suburbia - Shaun Tan

For Younger Readers

The Wish Pony - Catherine Bateson

Polar Boy - Sandy Fussell

Then - Morris Gleitzman

Audrey of the Outback - Christine Harris

WINNER! - Perry Angel's Suitcase - Glenda Millard

The Wizard of Rondo - Emily Rodda

For Early Childhood

WINNER! - How to Heal a Broken Wing - Bob Graham

Leaf - Stephen Michael King

Special Kev - Chris McKimmie

Applesauce and the Christmas Miracle - Glenda Millard

Tom Tom - Rosemary Sullivan

Puffling - Margaret Wild

Picture Books

Sunday Chutney - Aaron Blabey

WINNER! - Collecting Colour - Kylie Dunstan

Home and Away - Matt Ottley

Nobody Owns the Moon - Tohby Riddle

Captain Congo and the Crocodile King - Greg Holfeld

The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness - Colin Thompson

Information Books

The Word Spy - Ursula Dubosarsky

Simpson and his Donkey - Mark Greenword

WINNER! - Alive in the Death Zone - Lincoln Hall

Chicken: the Story of Chicken in Australia - Catriona Nicholls & Janet Patterson

Tuart Dwellers - Jan Ramage

Every Picture Tells a Story: Adventures in Australian Art - John Ross & Anna Booth

New Illustrators Award

Jessica's Box - Peter Carnavas

Miss Llewellyn-Jones - Moira Court

WINNER! - Mending Lucille - Sarah Davis

How WEIRD is That . . . - M. S. Dawson

Collecting Colour - Kylie Dunstan

Pilgrim - Jo Oliver