Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Awards 2009 |
Book of the Year - Older Readers |
Rossamund Bookchild is finally becoming a lamplighter, sworn to protect all travellers from the ferocious bogles that live in the wild. But he's found it no easier to fit in with the lamplighters than he ever has - always too small and too meek, his loneliness continues no matter how hard he tries to succeed. But when a haughty young girl, a member of a suspiciously-regarded society of all women teratologists is forced upon the lamplighters for training, Rossamund might no longer be the most despised soul around. |
During the winter of 1922, the exploration vessel, Raven, became trapped in the Antarctic icepack, entombing twenty-eight men aboard it through the dark polar night. Into White Silence tells their story - a story of a lost past, of a tragic future, of ice, ambition and madness. |
It is 1915. War is being fought on a horrific scale in the trenches of France. Desperate to do their bit three young girls start a canteen in France, caring for the endless flow of wounded soldiers returning from the front. Exhaustively researched but written with the lightest of touches, this is Jackie French at her very best. |
Finnikin and his guardian, Sir Topher, have not been home to their beloved Lumatere for ten years; not since the dark days when the royal family was murdered and the kingdom put under a terrible curse. When Finnikin is summoned to meet Evanjalin, a young woman with an incredible claim that the heir to the throne of Lumatere, Prince Balthazar, is alive, he begins to have hope that their cursed people will be able to enter Lumatere and be reunited with those trapped inside, including his own father. |
A girl desperate to live a normal life. A family tormented by a monster's cruelty. Two boys with a plan to make him stop. Forever. From the award-winning author of Lost Property and Bridge to Wiseman's Cove comes a gripping and powerfully moving story of a family stretched to breaking point - and a portrait of a killer... |
From the much-acclaimed creator of The Arrival, The Red Tree and The Lost Thing, fifteen intriguing illustrated stories about the mysteries that lurk below the surface of suburban life. Winner of Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Awards: Children's Book 2008. |
Into White Silence
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