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 2009 UK Kate Greenaway Medal Winner: Rayner, Catherine Harris Finds His Feet
Publisher: Little Tiger Press ISBN: 9781845065898 (Age range: 3+)
Harris is a triumph from the way he moves and his expressions to his velvety fur and his hands and feet. More + shortlist
2009 Carnegie Medal Winner Winner: DOWD, SIOBHAN Bog Child
David Fickling Books (Age range: 12+)
ISBN: 9780385614269
This is a beautifully written and controlled novel, strong on dialogue but with some beautiful descriptive phrases as well. More + shortlist
 U.S. author Michael Thomas for , Man Gone Down, about a once-promising Harvard student now broke and trying to keep his family together. Details
June 14 - Stephen King featured. Eight cate -gory winners. Details
 American Marilynne Robinson for her novel : Home . Described by the judges, as “a kind, wise, enriching novel, exquisitely crafted.” Details+shortlist
 Across the Tasman
 June 2009 Guest Prizes
The BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
 Highly Recommended The Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature
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June 24th- Australia's best. 18 categories were awarded. With Book Price Wars it was possibly an intense affair. No garlic bread chucking reports - yet. Great books. Details | Blog
19th June -Tim Winton for Breath. Mr. W. wasn't at the presentation, he doesn't do ceremonies. AU$42,000 prize should keep him in surfboard wax for a while.More
Environment Award for Children’s Literature
True Green Kids: 100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet by Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin is one of this year winners. Details and past winners
Eagerly anticipated by school librarians and all who have young children. Scrumptious. Details
AU$25,000 Nita Kibble Winner 6th June- Jacqui Kent's biography, Exacting Heart: the story of Hephzibah Menuhin .. Details
 The 2009 Dobbie Literary Award Winner Claire Thomas for the excellent Fugitive Blue. Details.
May 19th - Nam Le's , The Boat, won the Book of the Year Award, Steve Toltz's, A Fraction of the Whole, the People's Choice and Joan London's, The Good Parents, the Christina Stead worth $40,000 AUD. Details
May 16th - Christos Tsiolkas Best Book for The Slap about middle-class suburban Australia and its notions of child-rearing and acceptable behaviour.
Pakistani writer Mohammed, Best First Book for A Case of Exploding Mangoes. More
YABBA Shortlist for 2009 - Chosen by students from across VIC, NSW, ACT and NT. Details
Blake Dawson Prize For Business Literature Leonie Wood's, Funny Business: The Rise and Fall of Steve Vizard.....Convict History AUD$25,000 Tasmania Book Prize.... AUD $35,000 Barbara Jefferis Winner -The Spare Room by Helen Garner
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Featured State Award: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards - More Plus The Bilbys Queensland Children's Choice Awards
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