The Wilderness Society has announced the shortlist for the 2020 Environment Award for Children’s Literature.

This award is presented annually to fiction and nonfiction books that ‘foster a love of wild places and wildlife in young Australians’ and ‘encourage a sense of responsibility for our natural world’.

Here are the shortlisted books for each category…

Picture fiction

• One Tree by Christopher Cheng & Bruce Whatley
• Wilam by Andrew Kelly, Aunty Joy Murphy & Lisa Kennedy
• One Careless Night by Christina Booth
• The Fate of Fausto by Oliver Jeffers

Non-fiction

• You Can Change the World by Lucy Bell
• Fauna: Australia’s Most Curious Creatures by Tania McCartney
• A Hollow is a Home by Abbie Mitchell & Astred Hicks
• Explore Your World: Weird, Wild, Amazing! by Tim Flannery & Sam Caldwell

Fiction

• Eco Rangers: Microbat Mayhem by Candice Lemon-Scott & Aśka
• Super Sidekicks 2: Ocean’s Revenge by Gavin Aung Than

The 2020 winners will be announced in September of this year. Find out more about this year’s shortlisted titles here.