2009 Book Awards
Newbery Medal Winner 2009
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
$16.99 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
Winner of the Newbery Medal 2009.
'It's going to take more than a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will,' said Silas, 'take a graveyard.'
An original adventure story about a boy raised by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres of a local graveyard. From the inimitable, bestselling author Neil Gaiman.
When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard?
Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member of the family.
A stunningly original novel deftly constructed over eight chapters, featuring every second year of Bod's life, from babyhood t...
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Carnegie Medal and Kate Greenaway Medal 2009 winners
Bog Child
$19.95 (Paperback book / Red Fox Books )
Winner of the 2009 Carnegie Medal
Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him... More »
Harris Finds His Feet
$25.99 (Hardcover book / Koala Books )
Winner of the 2009 Kate Greenaway Medal
Harris was a very small hare with very big feet. "Why do I have such enormous feet, Grand dad?" Harris sighed . . . Grand dad shows Harris how to hop high into the sky, to climb t... More »
Carnegie Medal 2009 Shortlist
Creature Of The Night
Kate Thompson
Ostrich Boys
Keith Gray
Bog Child
Siobhan Dowd
Airman
Eoin Colfer
Cosmic
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Kate Greenaway Medal 2009 shortlist
The Snow Goose
Paul Gallico and Angela Barrett
Varmints
Helen Ward and Marc Craste
Little Boat
Thomas Docherty
Harris Finds His Feet
Catherine Rayner
The Savage
David Almond and Dave McKean
CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers Short List 2009
Kill The Possum
James Moloney
Finnikin Of The Rock
Melina Marchetta
Into White Silence
Anthony Eaton
Monster Blood Tattoo Book Two: Lamplighter
D.M. Cornish
CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers Short List 2009
Then
Morris Gleitzman
Perry Angel's Suitcase: Kingdom Of Silk Book 3
Glenda Millard
The Wizard Of Rondo
Emily Rodda
Polar Boy
Sandy Fussell
CBCA Book of the Year: Early Childhood Short List 2009
Puffling
Margaret Wild and Julie Vivas
Tom Tom
Rosemary Sullivan and Dee Huxley
Applesauce And The Christmas Miracle
Glenda Millard and Stephen Michael King
CBCA Book of the Year: Picture Book Short List 2009
The Big Little Book Of Happy Sadness
Colin Thompson
Captain Congo and the Crocodile King
Ruth Starke and Greg Holfiend
Nobody Owns The Moon
Tohby Riddle
Sunday Chutney
Aaron Blabey
Collecting Colour
Kylie Dunstan
CBCA Information Book of the Year: Eve Pownall Short List 2009
Every Picture Tells A Story
John Ross
Tuart Dwellers
Jan Ramage
Chicken: The Story Of Chicken In Australia
Catriona Nicholls and Janet Paterson
The Word Spy
Ursula Dubosarsky and Tohby Riddle
Simpson And His Donkey
Mark Greenwood and Frané Lessac
Alive In The Death Zone: Mount Everest Survival
Lincoln Hall
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