2011 CBCA Shortlist Books – reviews
Posted by Lisa Hill on August 2, 2011
Lately, I’ve been putting my reviews on GoodReads, because it helps to promote Australian children’s literature to an international audience.
These are my reviews of the 2011 CBCA Shortlisted chapter books. Click here to see which categories they’re in.
Click the links to see the reviews; click the book cover image or the title to buy the book from Fishpond.
Author: Christine Bongers
Title: Henry Hoey Hobson
Publisher: Woolshed Press, Random House 2010
ISBN: 9781864719956
My review at GoodReads is here.
This is one of my picks for the Book of the Year Award.
Author: Isabelle Carmody
Title: The Red Wind (Kingdom of the Lost)
Publisher: Viking Australia
ISBN: 9780670074037
My review at GoodReads is here.
Author: Michael Gerard Bauer
Title: Just a Dog
Publisher: Omnibus 2010
ISBN: 9781862918870
My review at GoodReads is here
I loved this book and I think it would be a winner (and not just because I’m soppy about dogs).
Author: Anna Branford
Illustrator: Sarah Davis
Title: Violet Mackerel’s Brilliant Plot
Publisher: Walker Books, 2010
ISBN: 9781921529177
My review at GoodReads is here. I picked this as a winner too.
Author: Sally Murphy
Illustrator: Rian Nest James
Title: Toppling
Publisher: Walker Books 2010
ISBN: 9781921529429
My review at GoodReads is here.
Author: Ursula Dubosarsky
Title: The Deep End (Aussie Nibbles)
Publisher: Puffin 2010
ISBN: 9780143305279
My review at GoodReads is here.
BTW You will notice as you read through the reviews that I’ve tagged more than one of them as ‘my pick for the winner’. Truth is, I really can’t decide, they’re all so good!
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