Country Australia | First awarded 1946 | |
Awarded for Excellence in Australian high school books Presented by Children's Book Council of Australia Official website | ||
The Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers has been presented annually since 1946 by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA). Note: from 1946 to 1986 this award was known as "Book of the Year".
The Award "will be made to outstanding books of fiction, drama, or poetry which require of the reader a degree of maturity to appreciate the topics, themes and scope of emotional involvement. Generally, books in this category will be appropriate in style and content for readers in their secondary years of schooling."
References
Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA