The Aurealis Award 2023 winners have been announced.
Of special interest:
BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION
Spellhound, Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin)
BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
When ghosts call us home, Katya de Becerra (Macmillan)
BEST FANTASY NOVEL
The will of the many, James Islington (Text Publishing)
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards winners announced. Of special interest:
The shortlist for the 2024 Branford Boase Award given annually to the author and editor of the year’s outstanding debut novel for children has been announced.
The shortlist for the International Booker Prize 2024:
Not a River by Selva Almada, translated from Spanish by Annie McDermott
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Michael Hofmann
The Details by Ia Genberg, translated from Swedish by Kira Josefsson
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated from Korean by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae
What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated from Dutch by Sarah Timmer Harvey
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated from Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz
Hugo Awards shortlists 2024 have been announced. Of partiicular interest:
Lodestar Award for Best YA Book
Abeni’s Song by P. Djèlí Clark (Starscape)
Liberty’s Daughter by Naomi Kritzer (Fairwood Press)
Promises Stronger than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen)
The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen Books, Gollancz and Allen & Unwin)
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
Unraveller by Frances Hardinge (Macmillan Children’s Books; eligible due to 2023 U.S. publication by Amulet)
Published authors or illustrators of at least one book for children or young people are invited to apply for “the gift of time”. The May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust provides accommodation, local support, and travel to our host city Adelaide. If you are interested in applying or know of anyone else that may be, please contact Samantha Rubenhold, the Fellowships Coordinator at contact@maygibbs.org.au
Completed applications must be received by 11:59pm on Friday 31st May 2024.
Further information can be found here.
2024 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list and 2024 Great Graphic Novels for Teens Top Ten list have been announced.
The Yoto Carnegies, the UK’s longest running and best-loved book awards for children and young people, announced their 2024 shortlists.
The CBCA Book of the year shortlists - the top 36 Australian children's books published in 2023 - have been announced. Go to ReadPlus reviews to see reviews of many of them.
The Aurealis Awards shortlists have been announced. Of particular interest:
BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION
The lonely lighthouse of Elston-Fright, Reece Carter (Allen & Unwin)
Ghost book, Remy Lai (Allen & Unwin)
The letterbox tree, Rebecca Lim & Kate Gordon (Walker Books Australia)
Deadlands: Hunted, Skye Melki-Wegner (Walker Books Australia)
The hotel witch, Jessica Miller (Text Publishing)
Spellhound, Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin)
BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Borderland, Graham Akhurst (UWA Publishing)
When ghosts call us home, Katya de Becerra (Macmillan)
Archives of despair, Caleb Finn (Penguin Random House Australia)
The weaver, Melanie Kanicky (MidnightSun Publishing)
The spider and her demons, sydney khoo (Penguin Random House Australia)
The non-magical Declan Moore, Nathan Taylor (Magpie Drive Press)
The Children's Book Council of Australia has announced the notable books for 2024. Many have been reviewed at ReadPlus.
Lots of good books to be found at the YALSA Book & Media lists.These include:
Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults
Best Fiction for Young Adults
Great Graphic Novels for Teens
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
Teens' Top Ten
Sally Rippin is the Australian Children's Laureate for 2024 & 2025. Sally says:
"My hope as Laureate is to ensure that all children can be supported to access reading in the way that suits them most."
The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2024 have been announced. Of particular interest:
A hunger of thorns by Lili Wilkinson - Winner
Shortlist
We could be something by Will Kostakis
The quiet and the loud by Helena Fox
The goodbye year by Emily Gale
Children's literature
Ghost book by Remy Lai - Winner
Shortlist
It's the sound of the thing by Maxine Beneba Clarke
Who's afraid of the light? by Anna McGregor
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards.