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There are numerous children's choice book
awards in Australia, state based and national. In each case
children are the judges, voting for their favourite book.
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National Award |
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While
the books may be popular with students, some titles may
contain controversial material or be aimed at mature readers.
Before purchasing short listed titles for the school
collection teachers and teacher librarians should refer
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| BILBY
Awards, Queensland |
BILBY stands for
Books I Love Best Yearly.
Awards are announced in September on International
Literacy Day. Visit
the BILBY home page for more information
and a list of previous winners.
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| COOL
Awards, Australian Capital Territory |
COOL stands for Canberra's
Own Outstanding List.
In 2007 Awards were presented in four categories:
- Picture Story Book
- Fiction for Younger
Readers
- Fiction for Older Readers
- Fiction for Years 7-9
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The
website contains About COOL, current short list,
guidelines, past winners and links to other Children's
Choice Awards and to Children's Literature sites.
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| KOALA
Awards, New South Wales |
KOALA stands for
Kids Own Australian Literature Awards.
These awards are presented in October of each year.
Visit the attractive, easy
to navigate KOALA website for more information
including aims of the award, FAQ, Winners and Top
50, Past Winners and Links to other Australian Children's
Choice Awards.
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| CYBER
Award, Tasmania |
CYBER stands for
Children's Yearly Best-Ever Reads.
The award was presented for the first time in 1999.
Students in primary
and secondary schools around Tasmania vote for
their favourite book. Voting is conducted through
schools, public libraries and bookshops. The award
has been discontinued.
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| KROC
Award, Northern Territory |
KROC stands
for Kids Reading Oz Choice.
The award is announced in October during Children's
Week.
It is a first-past-the-post voting system. The only
criteria is that the book must be Australian.
Contact person for
the KROC Award is:
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| WAYRBA
Award, Western Australia |
WAYRBA stands for West Australian
Young Readers' Book Award.
The award is announced in November.
Officially
launched in March 1980, the Award was established
by the School Libraries Section (WA Group) of ALIA.
The Award aims to:
- Promote reading.
- Give recognition to those
who read and write children's literature.
- Provide a focus for the
mutual interest of those concerned with
children and their literature.
- Provide a balance to adult
selected awards
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It operates on two levels, Younger
Readers and Older Readers, with participation by
both public and school libraries throughout the
state. A presentation night is held to announce
the winning books and groups of students present
a dramatisation of each winning title.
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YABBA Awards, Victoria |
YABBA stands for Young Australians' Best
Book Award.
Awards are published in November.
Visit the YABBA website for more information
including a students' page where students can review/recommend
books, a parents'/teachers' page and a list of winners
since 1986.
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| YARA
Awards, National |
YARA stands for Young Australian Readers'
Awards.
YARA, a national online students' choice award was
begun in 2001. Students around the nation are invited
to write reviews for their favourite latest releases.
This is a not to be missed site. Promote it particularly
to avid readers who may enjoy submitting their own
reviews of recent titles and reading the recommendations
of their peers. The reviews also provide good models
when teaching students how to write reviews.
The YARA Award and website has been co-ordinated
by Christopher Cheng, Barbara Braxton and Stephen
James-Smoult, but no Award has been made since
2004. The Older Readers reviews section of the
website is being maintained, however, with students
still able to submit their reviews of titles
in this category.
Reviews submitted by Younger Readers have temporarily
been discontinued, although previous titles are
still accessible on the site. [July 2007]
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