Australian

The Readings Children’s Book Prize

Song For A Scarlet Runner by Julie Hunt

The Inkys (Australia’s teen choice awards)

The First Third by Will Kostakis

CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers

Wildlife by Fiona Wood

YABBA Award (children’s choice book award for Victoria) for Younger Readers

Billie B Brown: The Best Project by Sally Rippin

Speech Pathology Australia Awards, Indigenous children category

Deadly D & Justice Jones – Making the Team by Scott Prince and Dave Hartley

Crichton Award For New Illustrators

Big Red Kangaroo illustrated by Graham Byrne

The Eve Pownall Award For Information Books

Jeremy by Christopher Faille and Danny Snell

International

Newbery Medal

Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo

New Zealand Book Awards, Children’s Choice

The Three Bears…Sort Of by Yvonne Morrison and Donovan Bixley

Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (UK)

The Last Wild by Piers Torday

The Kate Greenaway Medal

This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen

Geisel Award for beginning readers

The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli

The National Book Award (USA)

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation (awarded biennially)

In The Sea There Are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda, translated by Howard Curtis