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The Crichton Award aims to recognise and encourage new talent in the field of Australian children's book illustration. It is administered by the Victorian Branch of the CBCA and the2009 Crichton Award for New Illustrators Winner
* Mending Lucille Sarah Davis, text: J R Poulter, (Lothian)
An insightful picture book about one girl's loss of her mother. Mending Lucille charts the process of grief and healing through a young girl's attachment to a broken doll, Lucille. One day, she and her father meet Chrissie, a kind waitress who mends the doll. Will she also be able to help them overcome their grief? Ages 3+. More
2009 Crichton Award for New Illustrators Other Shortlisted
* Jessica's Box, Peter Carnavas, (New Frontier Publishing)
* Miss Llewellyn-Jones, Moira Court, text: Elaine Forrestal, (Fremantle Press)
* How WEIRD is That… M S Dawson, text: Gyan Evans, (A Museagency book)
* Collecting Colour, Kylie Dunstan, (Lothian)
* Pilgrim, Jo Oliver, (New Frontier Publishing
Walker, Anna Santa's Aussie Holiday Scholastic Australia
Text: Farrer, Maria
Book Description:
Each year Santa likes to have some fun, a chance to get some rest and sun he spins his globe for inspiration and finds a perfect destination...Australia! Join Santa and his new Aussie mates as they travel around Australia, from the Great Barrier Reef to Rottnest Island. Ages 4+
2008 Other Short listed
Blabey, Aaron Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley Viking, Penguin Group Australia
Edwards, Luke Ock Von FiendOmnibus, Scholastic
Kwaymullina, Ambelin The Crow and the Waterhole Fremantle Press
Martinez, Sonia The World According to WarrenFremantle Press
Oxlade, Jonathon. Text The Empty City Lothian, Hachette Livre
Past Winners
2008 - Anna Walker Santa's Aussie Holiday
2007 - Vince Agostino When Elephants Lived in the Sea
2006 - Jeremy Geddes The Mystery of the Eilean Mor
2005 - Declan Lee Wings
2004 - Freya Blackwood Two Summers
2003 - Naomi Mairou The Dugong Meadow
2002 - Mini Goss When Mum Was Little
2001 - Caroline Magerl Grandma's Shoes
2000 - Lorette Broekstra Baby Bear Goes to the Zoo
1999 - No winner this year
1998 - Joint Winners
Shaun Tan The Viewer
Anna Pignataro I'm in the Sky and I Can't Come Back
1997 - Sally Rippin Fang Fang's Chinese New Year
1996 - Anne Spudvilas The Race
1995 - Joint Winners
Astri Baker I Wish I'd Gone to the Moon with Neil Armstrong
Geoff Kelly Power and Glory
1994 - Jenny Sands Is it True Grandfather?
1993 - Donna Leslie Alitiji in Dreamland
1992 - Kim Gamble The Magnificent Nose & Other Marvels
1991 - Grace Fielding Bip, the Snapping Bungaroo
1990 - Jeanie Adams Pigs and Honey
1989 - Marilyn Pride Australian Dinosaurs
1988 - Raymond Meeks The Pheasant and the Kingfisher
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