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18 Speak Out October 2016
The winners are in and everything is in place for
the Speech Pathology Book of the Year 2016 Awards
Ceremony, which for the second time is being conducted
in Brisbane. A big thank you to the State Library of
Queensland for their support, and for hosting the 2016
awards ceremony.
The winners of the 2016 Book of the Year will be formally
announced on Thursday 13 October. Until then, please
keep the winners a secret! Everyone is welcome to attend
the ceremony. Formalities get underway from 10.45am at
the State Library of Queensland, Auditorium 1, Level 2,
Cultural Precinct, Stanley Place, South Brisbane.
A new entrant to the Speech Pathology Australia Book of
the Year Hall of Fame (Children’s Language and Literature
Award) will also be announced at the awards ceremony.
Details about the winner will be published in the December
edition of Speak Out. The winner is a very well-known
female author of Australian children’s books and is a
previous winner of a Speech Pathology Australia Book of
the Year Award!
A big thank you to all of this year’s Book of the Year
judges, without whom there would be no awards. The
time and effort taken by the judges to read the books, and
then to prioritise and pass comment on the best ones, is
significant. The judges can only undertake their tasks once
the mountain of nominated books has been reduced to a
select few by our dedicated “shortlisters” and our partners
at Let’s Read (who shortlist the books in the Birth to 3
years category).
In 2016, there was a record 154 books nominated for the
Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards – up
from 112 in 2015. Feedback from the judges was that the
standard across the 52 books shortlisted for judging was
extremely high. Congratulations again to all the authors
and illustrators who had a book shortlisted. Details of
the shortlisted books can found on the Book of the Year
webpage.
Everyone can help celebrate the Book of the Year Awards
and the winning books. You can do this by recommending
the winning titles to parents and educators, displaying the
Book of the Year poster in your workplace, and talking
to your local library about promoting the awards and the
winning books.
And the winners are…
Book of the Year
2016
Book of the
year awards
The best
books for
language
and literacy