AustLit
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2021
winner y Is This Your Egg? Emma Cracknell (illustrator), Brisbane : State Library of Queensland , 2020 20937943 2020 single work picture book children's'Henry the Hermit crab is on a mission. He has found a small egg and must travel through the mudflats, the hot sand and the tall grass to find it a home. Where will it belong when it hatches?' (Publication summary)
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Year: 2020
winner y My Culture and Me Gregg Dreise (illustrator), Melbourne : Puffin , 2019 15637808 2019 single work picture book children's'Feel the rhythm of the music, from your heart down to your feet.
Enjoy the movements of melodies, as clapsticks keep a strong beat.'This is my culture. This is me.
'Beautifully written and illustrated, My Culture and Me is a heartfelt and stirring story of cherishing and sustaining Indigenous cultures.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Year: 2019
winner y Dreaming Soldiers Shane McGrath (illustrator), Warriewood : Big Sky Publishing Big Sky Publishing , 2018 14503338 2018 single work picture book children's'A powerful and moving story about true mateship.
'"The simple story-telling combines with stunning images to honour the service and contribution of Australian veterans, and Aboriginal soldiers."
'"Dreaming Soldiers" weaves tales of childhood adventures and battlefield challenges with gentle Dreaming themes.
'This is a touching friendship story about Jimmy and Johnno, two young Australian boys in the 1900s; mates who do everything together, sharing adventures and growing up side by side in the dusty cattle yards of an Outback South Australian station and later on the muddy WWI battlefields of the Western Front.' (Publication summary)