‘The Amber Amulet’ wins Crystal Bear award at Berlin film festival
A film adaptation of Craig Silvey’s novella The Amber Amulet (A&U) has won the Crystal Bear award for the Best Short Film in the Generation Kplus section, for films aimed...
WritingWA announces cultural partnership with Singapore book council
WritingWA has announced a new cultural exchange program with the National Book Council of Singapore, which will involve Western Australian authors and illustrators attending a writers’ festival in Singapore, the...
Aussie authors named in USBBY list of outstanding international books
A number of books by Australian authors have been selected for the 2013 United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY) list of Outstanding International Books for children and young...
2013 Somerset Celebration of Literature program released
The program for the 2013 Somerset Celebration of Literature, to be held between 13 and 15 March on the Gold Coast in Queensland, has been released. The festival, which focuses...
Line-up for Reading Matters conference announced
The full line-up for the 2013 Reading Matters conference, run by the State Library of Victoria’s Centre for Youth Literature, has been announced. International guests attending the YA books event, which runs from 30 May...
A year in children’s books: publishers’ top junior picks for 2013
From a Pride and Prejudice-inspired picture book set in an Australian farmyard to a YA thriller that explores the dangers of online communication, publishers tell us their top children’s and...
2012 ALA Awards: Caldecott, Newbery, Printz and Morris
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced its 2013 awards for children’s and young adult literature, including the Caldecott, Newbery, Printz and Morris awards. The winner of this year’s Caldecott...
ASA to run grants initiative for children’s book illustrators again in 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced that its grants initiative for children’s book illustrators will run again this year. In a statement on its website, the ASA said that...
Oz books selected for 2013 IBBY Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities list
Three Australian books have been included in the 2013 Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities list produced by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). The Australian...
Random House to publish ebook, print book of ‘Dandelion’ app
Random House Australia has acquired the rights to an ebook and print book version of Dandelion, a popular anti-bullying app for children that was created by Sydney writer and creative director...
Pye, Bishop recognised with NZ New Year Honours
New Zealand educational publisher Wendy Pye was made a Dame Companion in the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2013 New Year Honours earlier this month. Pye, who founded Wendy...
WH Smith opens dedicated children’s store at Melbourne Airport
UK bookselling chain WH Smith has opened a dedicated children’s store in the international terminal at Melbourne Airport. The store, which opened on 15 December, is WH Smith’s first store...
Changes at ‘Bookseller+Publisher’
Bookseller+Publisher is kicking off the new year with a new publication and a new name. Bookseller+Publisher Daily, which will launch on Monday 14 January, will feature the latest local news each...
New CBCA board announced; Briant elected national president
The new national board of management of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) met for the first time at the organisation’s 2012 annual general meeting at the end of...
2012 KROC Awards winners announced
The winners of this year’s 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 Very...
2012 COOL Awards winners announced
The winners of the 2012 Canberra’s Own Outstanding List (COOL) Awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture Storybooks: The Terrible Plop (Ursula Dubosarsky & Andrew Joyner, Viking) Fiction...
Reading Matters 2013 dates, new features announced
The State Library of Victoria will hold its 10th annual Reading Matters conference from Thursday 30 May to Saturday 1 June 2013. The conference, which focuses on children’s and YA...
‘Open-minded’ Independent Publishers Conference a success; will return in 2013
The Small Press Network, the rebranded Small Press Underground Networking Community, is already planning for the 2013 Independent Publishers Conference following a successful inaugural event in Melbourne last week. General manager...
Government to combine National Year of Reading, Let’s Read campaigns in 2013
The Federal Government has announced that that the National Year of Reading (NYR) Love2Read brand will continue after this year, with the campaign to be merged with the Let’s Read...
Australians, New Zealander on 2013 Carnegie, Greenaway longlists
The nominations for the 2013 CILIP Carnegie Medal and the 2013 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal have been announced. Australian authors Morris Gleitzman and Margo Lanagan have been longlisted for the...