Australian Children's Book of the Year Award: 1996 Shortlist

Book of the Year: Younger Readers

• Carey, Peter. The Big Bazoohley (University of Queensland Press)
• Fienberg, Anna (illus Kim Gamble). Tashi (Allen & Unwin)
• Honey, Elizabeth. 45 & 47 Stella St and Everything that Happened (Allen & Unwin)
• Moloney, James. Swashbuckler (University of Queensland Press)
• Steele, Mary. A Bit of a Hitch (Hyland House)
• Walker, Kate (illus David Cox). I Hate Books! (Omnibus Books)

Picture Book of the Year

• Baker, Jeannie. The Story of Rosy Dock (Random House Australia)
• Brooks, Ron (text Margaret Wild). Old Pig (Allen & Unwin)
• Clement, Rod. Just Another Ordinary Day (HarperCollins)
• Oliver, Narelle. The Hunt (Lothian Books)
• Smith, Craig (text Jessica Carroll). Billy the Punk (Random House Australia)
• Spudvilas, Anne (text Christobel Mattingley). The Race (Scholastic)

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

• Kuchling, Gerald and Guundie (illus Guundie Kuchling). Yakkin the Swamp Tortoise: The Most Dangerous Year (Chelonia Enterprises)
• Little, Douglas (illus David Francis and Donna Rawlins). Ten Little Known Facts About Hippopotamuses and More Little Known Facts and a Few Fibs About Other Animals (Scholastic)
• Macdonald, Wendy (illus Julian Bruere). The Voyage of the Endeavour (CIS Cardigan Street)
• Nicholson, John. The First Fleet: A New Beginning in an Old Land (Allen & Unwin)
• Tonkin, Rachel. What Was the War Like, Grandma? (Reed for Kids)
• Weldon Owen Team (text Judith Simpson). Native Americans (Allen & Unwin