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THREE TO 5 YEARS
THE WINNERS ARE in and everything is in place for the Speech
Pathology Book of the Year 2017 Awards Ceremony, to be
conducted in Brisbane. Thanks to the State Library of Queensland
for their ongoing support of the Book of the Year Awards, and for
hosting the awards ceremony again in 2017.
The winners of the 2017 Book of the Year will be formally
announced on Thursday 2 November. Until then, please keep the
winners a secret!
Everyone is welcome to attend the ceremony. Formalities get
underway from 10.30 am at the State Library of Queensland,
Auditorium 1, Level 2, Cultural Precinct, Stanley Place, South
Brisbane.
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 2017, there was a huge 152 books nominated for the Speech
Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards. Feedback from the
judges was that the standard across the 55 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. Again, please keep the winners a
secret until 2 November!
Speech Pathology Australia
BOOK OF THE YEAR
And the winners are…
THE WINNERS
FIVE TO 8 YEARS
EIGHT TO 10 YEARS
Mad Magpie
Written and illustrated
by Gregg Dreise
INDIGENOUS
CHILDREN
BIRTH TO 3
YEARS
Noisy Nature
by Mandy A Kuhne
Illustrated by Alex Kuhne
Me and You
by Deborah Kelly
Illustrated by Karen Blair
Somewhere Else
Written and illustrated
by Gus Gordon
Artie and the Grime
Wave
Written and illustrated
by Richard Roxburgh
Embargoed until
2 November 2017
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