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KOALAs 2014 winners announced

12 November 2014   Books+Publishing
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The winners of the 2014 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs) have been announced.

The winning titles and honour books in each category are:

Picture storybooks

  • The Dreadful Fluff (Aaron Blabey, Viking)

 

Honour books

  • Noah Dreary (Aaron Blabey, Viking)
  • A Bus Called Heaven (Bob Graham, Walker Books)

 

Fiction for younger readers

  • Billie B Brown: The Best Project (Sally Rippin, Hardie Grant Egmont)

 

Honour books

  • Alice-Miranda in Paris (Jacqueline Harvey, Random House)
  • The Third Door (Emily Rodda, Omnibus)

 

Fiction for older readers

  • The 39-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths, illus by Terry Denton, Pan Macmillan)

 

Honour books

  • Eric Vale, Epic Fail (Michael Gerard Bauer, illus by Joe Bauer, Scholastic)
  • WeirDo (Anh Do, illus by Jules Faber, Scholastic)

 

Fiction for years 7-9

  • Pennies for Hitler (Jackie French, HarperCollins)

 

Honour books

  • My Life as an Alphabet (Barry Jonsberg, A&U)
  • The Last Thirteen Book 1: 13 (James Phelan, Scholastic).

 

The KOALA Legend award for 2014 went to author Libby Gleeson.

The KOALAs are NSW’s annual children’s choice awards. The winners of this year’s awards were selected from the Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards shortlist, which also acts as a shortlist for the children’s choice awards in the Australian Capital Territory (COOL Awards), Victoria (YABBAs) and the Northern Territory (KROC Awards). 

For more information about the KOALAs, click here. 

 

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