PANZ to lead Bologna delegation
Monday, 8 January 2018
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) will have a New Zealand collective stand for the first time at Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2018. With the support of Creative...
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced
Monday, 8 January 2018
The shortlists have been announced for this year’s Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, presented biennially by the South Australian government. The shortlisted works in each category are: Children’s Rockhopping (Trace...
Text acquires new YA debut
Monday, 8 January 2018
Text has acquired world rights to debut author Kay Kerr’s YA novel, Please Don’t Hug Me. Kerr’s novel is a ‘contemporary coming-of-age tale’ about ‘a neuro-diverse and socially awkward year...
Oz middle-grade novel ‘The Shark Caller’ optioned for film
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Dianne Wolfer’s middle-grade novel The Shark Caller (Random House) has been optioned for film by New Zealand producers Kerry Warkia and Kiel McNaughton at Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions Wolfer’s...
Online book club launches YA event
Tuesday, 5 December 2017
Online young adult book club the YA Room has programmed a one-day young adult (YA) event in Melbourne at the Wheeler Centre. ‘YA Day’, which will be held on 28...
Wagner awarded 2017 Dromkeen Medal
Friday, 1 December 2017
The State Library Victoria (SLV) has awarded the 2017 Dromkeen Medal to Erica Wagner, publisher of books for children and young adults at Allen & Unwin. Wagner has worked as...
Attendance up at SPN conference; children’s books a growth area for small publishers
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) sixth Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 16-18 November. With attendance up on last year, SPN general manager Matthia...
BILBY Awards 2017 winners announced
Thursday, 23 November 2017
The winners for this year’s Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for Queensland, have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Early...
SWF 2018 schools program announced
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced the line-up for the 2018 Primary and Secondary School Days programs, to be held from 2 to 7 May. Former UK children’s laureate,...
Siberry wins HGE Ampersand Prize for middle-grade novel ‘Gloop’
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Lisa Siberry has won Hardie Grant Egmont’s (HGE) Ampersand Prize for an unpublished manuscript for her middle-grade novel ‘Gloop’. ‘Gloop’ is a ‘funny and atmospheric middle-grade mystery’ about 12-year-old science...
Stella Prize launches Read Up resource
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
The Stella Prize has launched a series of reading lists for young people aged 15-24 ‘to help guide their thinking about sexuality, relationships, gender, minds and bodies, and diverse cultures’....
‘Boy’ wins 2017 Children’s Peace Literature Award
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Phil Cummings and Shane Devries’ picture book Boy (Scholastic) has won the Australian Psychological Society’s (APS) 2017 Children’s Peace Literature Award. Boy, which tells the story of a young deaf...
A&U, Hachette to release new Shaun Tan books in 2018
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Allen & Unwin and Hachette will be releasing new books by award-winning author Shaun Tan in 2018. Allen & Unwin will publish Tales from the Inner City, a companion volume...
KOALAs 2017 winners announced
Monday, 13 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), the children’s choice book awards for New South Wales, have been announced. The winners and honour books in each...
Australians nominated for 2018 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Several Australian authors and illustrators have been nominated for the 2018 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals. Zana Fraillon’s The Ones That Disappeared (Lothian) and Garth Nix’s Goldenhand and Frogkisser (both...
KROC Awards 2017 winners announced
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for the Northern Territory, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Do...
Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2017 winners announced
Friday, 3 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year awards have been announced. Chosen from shortlists announced in July, the winning titles are: Birth to three years...
The children’s hour: Children’s rights sales in the Australian book market
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
With children’s books driving book sales locally, Jackie Tang looks at how children’s rights sales are performing for Australian publishers. Children’s books are dominating the Australian market, with children’s and...
YABBAs 2017 winners announced
Tuesday, 31 October 2017
The winners of the 2017 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Do Not Open This Book (Andy...
CBCA NSW announces shortlist for 2017 mentorship program
Tuesday, 31 October 2017
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) NSW branch has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Aspiring Writers Mentorship Program for unpublished children’s writers. The three shortlisted writers are: Angela...
WAYRBA 2017 winners announced
Friday, 27 October 2017
The winners of the 2017 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced. The winners are: Picture book: Do Not Open This Book (Andy Lee, illus by Heath...
Behind the marketing campaign: Ashleigh Barton on ‘Nevermoor’
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
When Jessica Townsend’s debut children’s novel Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Lothian) was published on 10 October, the buzz around the novel was considerable. In the following week it...
YALSA announces teens’ top 10 books of 2017
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
In the US, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association, has announced the 2017 Teens’ Top 10 list of books nominated and voted...
Walker acquires debut Australian YA psychological thriller
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
Walker Books has acquired world rights to debut author Sarah Epstein’s YA psychological thriller Small Spaces. Due for release in April 2018, Small Spaces is the story of 17-year-old Tash,...
HGE announces 2017 Ampersand Prize shortlist
Tuesday, 24 October 2017
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has announced the shortlist for its 2017 Ampersand Prize for unpublished YA and middle-grade authors. The six shortlisted authors and their works are: Lincoln Law for...
‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ coming to Melbourne in 2019
Tuesday, 24 October 2017
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be coming to Melbourne’s Princess Theatre in early 2019. The play, based on an original new story by J K Rowling, Jack Thorne...
Warm welcome: Kyneton’s Squishy Minnie
Monday, 23 October 2017
When children’s bookstore Squishy Minnie opened in the Victorian town of Kyneton, it filled an important gap in the regional community. Owner and manager Kristen Proud shares her bookseller’s diary....
A league of their own: Junior fiction about girls and sport
Monday, 23 October 2017
Following the success of the inaugural AFL women’s league, Meg Whelan explores the recent spate of junior-fiction books about girls and sport. TV and radio presenter and now children’s book...
Book bites: a round-up of forthcoming children’s and YA books
Monday, 23 October 2017
Children’s bookseller and Three Four Knock on the Door owner L J Lacey offers a taste of books to come. Picture this My Sister by Joanna Young (New Frontier, March)...
Reading ahead: 2018 children’s and YA preview
Monday, 23 October 2017
2018 sees the release of a new YA series from Jay Kristoff and a middle-grade series from Amie Kaufman; the re-release of a 10-year-old series from Liane Moriarty; and the...
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