2012 Children's Book of the Year Award Winners

The winners of the 2012 Children's Book of the Year Awards have been announced.

Older Readers Book of the Year 2012
     
WINNER     Gardner, Scot: The Dead I Know (Penguin Group Australia)
HONOUR     Condon, Bill: A Straight Line to my Heart (Allen & Unwin)
HONOUR     Newton, Robert: When We were Two (Penguin Books, Penguin Group (Australia))

Younger Readers Book of the Year 2012
     
WINNER     Constable, Kate: Crow Country (Allen & Unwin)
HONOUR     French, Jackie: Nanberry: Black Brother White (Angus & Robertson Harper Collins Publishers)
HONOUR     Green, Susan: The Truth about Verity Sparks (Walker Books)

Early Childhood Book of the Year 2012

WINNER     Bland, Nick Ill. Freya Blackwood: The Runaway Hug (Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia)
HONOUR     Hartnett, Sonya Ill. Lucia Masciullo: Come Down, Cat! (Puffin Books, Penguin Group (Australia))
HONOUR     Honey, Elizabeth: That's Not a Daffodil! (Allen & Unwin)

Picture Book of the Year 2012

WINNER     Graham, Bob: A Bus called Heaven (Walker Books)
HONOUR     Brooks, Ron Text. Margaret Wild: The Dream of the Thylacine (Allen & Unwin)
HONOUR     Whatley, Bruce Text. Jackie French: Flood (Omnibus Books, Scholastic Australia)

Eve Pownall Book of the Year 2012

WINNER     Lester, Alison & Tulloch, Coral: One Small island: The Story of Macquarie Island (Penguin Group (Australia))
HONOUR     Do, Anh & Do, Suzanne Ill. Bruce Whatley: The Little Refugee (Allen & Unwin)
   
You can read the full shortlists here.