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Last night we were thrilled to get along to the Night of Notables, a bubbling evening which included the announcement of the Notable list for the CBCA Book of the Year awards. We heard from Susan LaMarca about the rigorous evaluation and heartache experienced by Book of the Year judges, and Shaun Tan reflecting on the process from the creatives’ perspective.
To capture just a snippet of the wonderful books and the creatives behind them, here is the list of notables for the Older Readers category for 2017:
The Book of the Year: Older Readers
The Hounded
Simon Butters
Wakefield Press
ISBN: 9781743053959
Waer
Meg Caddy
Text Publishing
ISBN: 9781922182210
Words in Deep Blue
Cath Crowley
Pan Macmillan Australia
ISBN: 9781742612386
My Best Friend is a Goddess
Tara Eglington
HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780732299903
The Bone Sparrow
Zana Fraillon
Hachette Australia
ISBN: 9780734417138
Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club
Alison Goodman
HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780732296094
Yellow
Megan Jacobson
Penguin Random House Australia
ISBN: 9780143573333
Becoming Aurora
Elizabeth Kasmer
University of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702254208
The Sidekicks
Will Kostakis
Penguin Random House Australia
ISBN: 9780143309031
The Ocean of the Dead
Andrew McGahan
Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781760292188
The Stars at Oktober Bend
Glenda Millard
Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781743315897
A Toaster on Mars
Darrell Pitt
Text Publishing
ISBN: 9781922182869
Frankie
Shivaun Plozza
Penguin Random House Australia
ISBN: 9780143573166
Our Chemical Hearts
Krystal Sutherland
Penguin Random House Australia
ISBN: 9780143573906
Forgetting Foster
Diana Touchell
Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781760110796
Everything is Changed
Nova Weetman
University of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702254161
The Invisible War: A Tale on Two Scales
Ailsa Wild (Illust: Ben Hutchings)
Scale Free Network
ISBN: 9780992587253
One Would Think the Deep
Claire Zorn
University of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702253942
For the full list of notables, please visit the CBCA website
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