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Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2012

winner y separately published work icon The 13-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2011 Z1797251 2011 single work children's fiction children's adventure 'Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-storey treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a games room, self-making beds, vines you can swing on, a vegetable vaporiser and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically shoots your favourite flavoured marshmallows into your mouth whenever it discerns you're hungry.

'Two new characters - Andy and Terry - live here, make books together, and have a series of completely nutty adventures. Because: ANYTHING can happen in a 13-storey treehouse.' (From the publisher's website.)

Year: 2011

winner Ranger's Apprentice John Flanagan , 2004 series - author children's fiction children's fantasy

Year: 2010

winner y separately published work icon The Battle for Rondo Emily Rodda , Malvern : Omnibus Books , 2009 Z1645632 2007-2010 single work children's fiction children's fantasy

'The heart-stopping climax to the Rondo trilogy. Peril awaits Leo and Mimi on their return to the fantastic world of Rondo. With the help of Rondo's seven best witches and wizards, their friends have made plans to combat the attacks of the Blue Queen. But it soon becomes clear that defence is not enough... ' (Libraries Australia record.)

Year: 2008

winner y separately published work icon Paul Jennings' Spookiest Stories Paul Jennings , Camberwell : Viking , 2007 Z1435391 2007 selected work children's fiction children's horror 'This special anthology boasts twenty of Paul's spookiest, fun-filled yarns, hand picked by Paul himself' (Source: author's website).

Year: 2007

winner y separately published work icon Zombie Bums from Uranus Zombie Butts From Uranus [US title] Andy Griffiths , Sydney : Pan , 2003 Z1054204 2003 single work children's fiction children's humour

'Zack Freeman is back ... and so is his crazy runaway bum.

'But this time they're not fighting each other-this time they've joined forces to save the Earth from the most serious threat it has ever faced: an invasion of zombie bums ... zombie bums from Uranus.

'Join Zack, his bum, Eleanor, Silas Sterne, the Kicker, the Smacker, the Pincher, the Forker, the Flicker and the Mutant Maggot Lord in the heart-stopping, nostril-blasting, Zombie-Bums-from-Uranus-filled sequel to The Day My Bum went Psycho.

'Zombie Bums From Uranus - another story that you and your bum will never forget.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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