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CBCA Book of the Year 2012 winners announced

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Big news today for the Australian children’s book community – the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year 2012 winners have been announced!

Here are the winners:

  • Older Readers Book of the Year: Scot Gardiner for The Dead I Know
  • Younger Readers Book of the Year: Kate Constable for Crow Country
  • Early Childhood Book of the Year: Nick Bland and Freya Blackwood for The Runaway Hug
  • Picture Book of the Year: Bob Graham for A Bus Called Heaven
  • Eve Pownall Book of the Year: Alison Lester and Coral Tulloch for One Small Island: The Story of Macquarie Island

See the CBCA website for full details of the winners and honour books. Congratulations to everyone!

Penguin’s ‘Monthly Catch’ puts children’s submissions on hold

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As outlined in an earlier post, at the beginning of the year Penguin included children’s and YA submissions in their Monthly Catch, so that for the first week of every month authors of these books could submit their manuscripts.

Unfortunately, they have had to suspend the inclusion of children’s and YA manuscripts because of the number of submissions they received. Bad news for authors, but keep checking their website for updates, as they suggest they’ll reopen submissions soon.

Hachette accepting manuscripts

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Another publisher has announced that they are accepting manuscript submissions. Hachette Australia is accepting submissions from children’s writers (as well as writers of adult fiction and non-fiction). Note that they will only accept submissions in Word format; see their website for details.

Good luck!

YABBA awards announced

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The Young Australians’ Best Book Awards (YABBA) for 2011 have been announced:

Fiction Years 7-9: Now (Morris Gleitzman, Viking)

Fiction Older Readers: ‘Conspiracy 365‘ series (Gabrielle Lord, Scholastic)

Fiction Younger Readers: The Very Bad Book (Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, Pan)

Picture Storybooks: The Wrong Book (Nick Bland, Scholastic)

The YABBA awards are children’s choice book awards; children choose the shortlist and the overall winner in each category.