Shortlisted titles reviewed here

Reading Time Online has reviewed many of the 2015  shortlisted books over this past year. We have put them all together in this one post for your convenience.

Book of the Year: Early Childhood Short List

• Pig the Pug by Aaron Blabey
• Scary Night by Lesley Gibbes & Stephen Michael King
• Go to Sleep, Jessie! by Libby Gleeson & Freya Blackwood
• A House of Her Own by Jenny Hughes & Jonathan Bentley
• Snail and Turtle are Friends by Stephen Michael King
• Noni the Pony goes to the Beach by Alison Lester

Book of the Year: Younger Readers Short List

• Two Wolves by Tristan Bancks
• The Simple Things by Bill Condon
• The Cleo Stories The Necklace and the Present by Libby Gleeson & Freya Blackwood
• Bleakboy and Hunter Stand out in the Rain by Steven Herrick
• Figgy in the World by Tamsin Janu
• Withering-by-Sea by Judith Rossell

Book of the Year: Older Readers Short List

• Nona & Me by Clare Atkins
• Intruder by Christine Bongers
• Are You Seeing Me? by Darren Groth
• The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl by Melissa Keil
• The Minnow by Diana Sweeny
• The Protected by Clare Zorn

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Short List

• A – Z of Convicts in Van Dieman’s Land by Simon Barnard
• Coming of Age: Growing up Muslim in Australia by Demet Divaroren & Amra Pajalic (eds.)
• Mary’s Australia: how Mary Mackillop changed Australia by Pamela Freeman
• Tea and Sugar Christmas by Jane Jolly and Robert Ingpen
• Emu by Claire Saxby & Graham Byrne
• Audacity: Stories of Heroic Australians in Wartime by Carlie Walker & Brett Hatherly

Picture Book of the Year

• Rivertime by Trace Balla
• My Two Blankets by Freya Blackwood text by Irena Kobald
• One Minute’s Silence by Michael Camilleri text by David Metzenthen
• The Duck and the Darklings by Stephen Michael King text by Glenda Millard
• The Stone Lion by Ritva Voutila text by Margaret Wild
• Fire by Bruce Whatley text by Jackie French

     The Crichton Award for New Illustrators

•   Rivertime by Trace Balla
•   Kick with my Left Foot by Karen Briggs & Paul Seden
•  One Minute’s Silence by Michael Camilleri & David Metzenthen
•  Little Dog and the Christmas Wish by Robin Cowcher & Corinne Fenton
•  Meet Douglas Mawson by Snip Green & Mike Dumbleton
•  The Lost Girl by Leanne Tobin & Ambelin Kwaymullina