Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2011
winner (4-11 Award for Best Children's Illustrated Book (non fiction)) y
Mirror
Jeannie Baker
(illustrator),
Newtown
:
Walker Books Australia
,
2010
Z1712575
2010
single work
picture book
children's
(taught in 1 units)
'This innovative picture book comprises two stories designed to be read simultaneously – one from the left, the other from the right. Page by page, we experience a day in the lives of two boys and their families. An Australian family, whose way of life strikes a familiar chord, and a family from a far away country with a way of life that differs more than one can imagine. As we read we discover the simple truth that despite these differences we are all the same. We are the mirror of each other.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Year: 2007
winner (English 4-11 Picture Book) y
The Arrival
Shaun Tan
(illustrator),
South Melbourne
:
Lothian
,
2006
Z1285263
2006
single work
graphic novel
children's
(taught in 16 units)
"The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images that might seem to come from a long forgotten time. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages. With nothing more than a suitcase and a handful of currency, the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment. He is helped along the way by sympathetic strangers, each carrying their own unspoken history: stories of struggle and survival in a world of incomprehensible violence, upheaval and hope." (Source: Shaun Tan website)
