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Environment Award for Children's Literature 2013
The Wilderness Societyhas announced the shortlist for its 2013Environment Award for Children's Literature. Each year, the award honours books for children that promote a sense of caring and responsibility for the environment. The winners of the prize are ... |
04/06/2013 4:26:16 PM |
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Boundless Festival Celebrates Australian Children’s Literature
The University of Canberra, in partnership with the Lu Rees Archives, Libraries ACT, the ACT Writers’ Centre, theNational Library of Australia and theChildren’s Book Council of Australia ACT Branch, is hosting Boundless: The Festival of ... |
27/09/2012 12:04:07 PM |
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Top Fifty
Stuck for something to read? With fifty recommendations up its sleeve,Get Reading!can suggest a book a week for you for the forthcoming year - with two weeks off to give your eyes a rest. Get Reading! is a nationwide campaign aimed at encouraging more ... |
03/09/2012 7:54:37 AM |
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It’s National Literacy and Numeracy Week
This week is National Literacy and Numeracy Week (NLNW), an initiative of the Federal Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. NLNW highlights ‘the importance of literacy and numeracy skills for all children and young people, ... |
29/08/2012 10:01:25 AM |
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Champions Read
'Champions Read' is the (possibly Olympics-inspired) theme of this year's Children's Book Week, which ends this Friday, 24 August. Created by the Children's Book Council of Australia, and now in its 66th year, Book Week is the longest-running children's ... |
20/08/2012 11:26:43 AM |
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Graham on a Winning Ticket with ‘A Bus Called Heaven’
Bob Graham is the 2012 winner of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Picture Book of the Year Award. Graham’s award, for A Bus Called Heaven, brings his CBCA-winning tally to six. He first won in 1988 with Crusher Is Coming and, ... |
17/08/2012 2:55:15 PM |
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Gillian Mears First Past the Post
The winners of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. Gillian Mears scooped up the Fiction Prize (and pocketed $80,000) for her novel, Foal's Bread, which recently won the ALSGold Medal. The judges praised the book, saying it ... |
23/07/2012 3:41:02 PM |
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Children’s Literature Community Farewells Gifted Creators
The children’s literature community in Australia has farewelled two members in recent weeks. Jean Chapman ([1928]-2012) had a literary career extending across four decades. She wrote scripts for ABC radio broadcasts (including Kindergarten of the ... |
13/07/2012 9:14:13 AM |
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Literature and Mining Link Up
The Literature Centre, formerly the Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre, has established a partnership with BHP Billiton. The mining giant will invest $600,000 in the Centre over the next three years. The Centre’s founder and director, ... |
11/07/2012 9:45:32 AM |
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Children's and Young Adult Contenders in PM's Literary Awards
Fiction for young adults and children will be recognised in the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Individual award categories for Children's and Young Adult fiction sit alongside fiction, poetry, non-fiction and Australian history. Winners in ... |
03/07/2012 3:22:13 PM |
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Celebrate National Simultaneous Storytime
Wednesday, 23 May is National Simultaneous Storytime Day. Now in its twelfth year, this event is organised by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) to ‘promote the value of reading and literacy, using an Australian children's ... |
23/05/2012 7:57:57 AM |
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ASA Announces Picture Book Illustrators’ Grants
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced five recipients of Picture Book Illustrators’ Initiative Grants for 2012. The initiative ‘aims to establish a “best-practice... |
16/05/2012 11:42:31 AM |
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2012 CBCA Awards Shortlists Announced
The shortlists for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced on 3 April. Thirty-five books have been nominated across six categories. No Bears by Meg McKinley and Leila Rudge is the only ... |
04/04/2012 12:05:17 PM |
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Dromkeen Collection Moving to State Library of Victoria
The Dromkeen National Centre, currently housed on a rural property at Riddells Creek, Victoria, is to be re-located to the State Library of Victoria. The centre holds ‘a unique collection of original illustrations, artworks and manuscripts from ... |
01/03/2012 11:07:05 AM |
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US Outstanding Books List Recognises Australian Writers
USBBY, the United States section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), has announced its ‘2012 list of the 36 most outstanding international books for children and teens’. USBBY sought titles that would help American ... |
15/02/2012 11:21:50 AM |
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US Recognition for Silvey’s ‘Jasper Jones’
Craig Silvey’s 2009 novel Jasper Jones continues to garner praise. After winning several high profile Australian awards in 2009-2010 and being shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Western Australian tale has now ... |
31/01/2012 3:02:58 PM |
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Australia's First Children's Laureates Announced
Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor are to be Australia’s first Children’s Laureates. The inaugural announcement was made in Adelaide on 6 December and the appointment is the culmination of a campaign by the Australian Children’s ... |
12/12/2011 12:57:07 PM |
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International Board on Books for Young People Honours List
The IBBY Honour List is 'a biennial selection of outstanding, recently published books, honouring writers, illustrators, and translators from IBBY member countries'. The 2010 Honour List has been released. Australia is represented by Sonya Hartnett's The ... |
17/11/2011 1:20:00 PM |
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Sue Walker Wins 2011 Peace Award
Sue Walker's Arnie Avery is the winner of the 2011 Children's Peace Literature Award. The award is presented biennially by the Psychologists for Peace, a special interest group of the Australian Psychological Society. In Arnie Avery issues such as coping ... |
14/11/2011 9:41:14 AM |
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Hartnett and Baker Medal Nominees
Sonya Hartnett’s The Midnight Zoo has been nominated for the 2012 CILIP Carnegie Medal. Jeannie Baker’s Mirror has been nominated for the 2012 Kate Greenaway Medal. |
11/11/2011 9:25:00 AM |