Australian Children's Book of the Year Award: 1998 Shortlists

Winners will be announced during Australian Children's Book Week, August 1998.

Book of the Year: Older Readers

Note: Some of these books are for mature readers.

Alan Baillie, The Last Shot (Omnibus)

Catherine Jinks, Eye to Eye (Penguin)

Brigid Lowry, Guitar Highway Rose (Allen & Unwin)

David Metzenthen, Gilbert's Ghost Train (Scholastic)

Tom Winton, Lockie Leonard, Legend (Pan Macmillan)

Matt Zurbo, Idiot Pride (Penguin)

Elaine Forrestal, Someone Like Me (Penguin)

Libby Gleeson (ill. David Cox) Queen of the Universe (Omnibus)

Odo Hirsch (ill. Andrew McLean) Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman (Allen & Unwin)

Robin Klein, The Listmaker (Penguin)

Marguerite Hann Syme, Chickpea (Scholastic)

Patricia Wrightson (ill. David Cox) Rattler's Place (Penguin)

Note: Some of these books may be for mature readers.

Rod Clement, Grandad's Teeth (HarperCollins)

Bob Graham, Queenie the Bantam (Walker Books)

Andrew McLean (text Janet McLean) Josh (Allen & Unwin)

Junko Morimoto, The Two Bullies (Random House)

Tohby Riddle, The Great Escape from City Zoo (HarperCollins)

Bruce Whatley (text Rosie Smith) Detective Donut and the Wild Goose Chase (HarperCollins)

Beth Dolan, Cathy Freeman (Heinemann)

Gerald and Guundie Kuchling, Yakkinn the Swamp Tortoise: Survival (Era)

Jill Morris, (ill. Sharon Dye) The Wombat Who Talked to the Stars (Greater Glider Productions)

John Nicholson, A Home Among the Gum Trees (Allen & Unwin)

John Nicholson, Kimberley Warrior (Allen & Unwin)

Kim Michelle Toft and Allan Sheather, One Less Fish (UQP)

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Wednesday, April 15, 1998