Australian Children's Book of the Year Award

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

Established 1993. Presented annually in August for a book written by an Australian, or a resident of Australia.

• 1997 - Gordon Cheers and Julie Silk (illustrator Margaret Crosby-Fairall) Killer Plants (Penguin Books Australia)

  Honour Books

  Janeen Brian, Pilawuk - When I was Young (Era Publications)

  Weldon Owen Team, Reptiles (Little Ark/Allen & Unwin)

• 1996 - John Nicholson, The First Fleet: a New Beginning in an Old Land (Allen & Unwin)

  Honour Books

  Gerald and Guundie Kuchling, (illustrator, Guundie Kuchling), Yakkinn the Swamp Tortoise: the Most Dangerous Year (Chelonia Enterprises)

  Douglas Little, (illustrators, David Francis and Donna Rawlins), Ten Little Known Facts about Hippopotamuses and More Little Known Facts and a Few Fibs about Other Animals (Scholastic)

• 1995 - Robin E. Stewart, New Faces: The Complete Book of Alternative Pets

  Honour Books

  Cameron Millar and Dominique Falla, Woodlore

  Alan Tucker, Too Many Captain Cooks

• 1994 - Patricia Mullins, V is for Vanishing: An Alphabet of Endangered Animals

  Honour Books

  Kathie Atkinson, Life in a Rotten Log

  Jill Morris and Lynne Tracey, Australian Owls, Frogmouths and Nightjars

• 1993 - Gracie Greene and Joe Tramacci, illustrated by Lucille Gill, Tjarany Roughtail: The Dreaming of the Roughtail Lizard and Other Stories Told by the Kukatja

  No Honour books awarded.