CYBER Awards
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

'The CYBER Award (Children's Yearly Best Ever Reads) is the Tasmanian popular choice award. When last reported, this award was run by a group of librarians, teachers and booksellers, allowing any Tasmanian student (K-12) to vote for an Australian books published in the last 10 years.

'However, no recent awards appear to have been made. While some information is available from the CYBER news pages, these do not seem to have been updated recently.' (Source: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/childlit/Awards/CYBER.htm )

Notes

  • CYBER is: Children's Yearly Best-Ever Reads is a Tasmanian award, first presented in 1999. Students in primary and secondary schools around Tasmania, vote through schools, public libraries and bookshops for their favourite book. There are three sections: Older Readers, Younger Readers & Most Popular Book and Picture Book.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2002

winner y separately published work icon The Pocket Dogs Margaret Wild , Stephen Michael King (illustrator), Norwood : Omnibus Books , 2000 Z816424 2000 single work picture book children's

'Biff and Buff are two very small dogs who are happy to travel in Mr Pocket's pockets, until Biff falls through a hole one day.' (Source: Trove)
winner y separately published work icon Horrible Harriet Leigh Hobbs , Leigh Hobbs (illustrator), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2001 Z925555 2001 single work picture book children's

Year: 2001

winner y separately published work icon The Pocket Dogs Margaret Wild , Stephen Michael King (illustrator), Norwood : Omnibus Books , 2000 Z816424 2000 single work picture book children's

'Biff and Buff are two very small dogs who are happy to travel in Mr Pocket's pockets, until Biff falls through a hole one day.' (Source: Trove)

Year: 2000

winner (Younger Readers) y separately published work icon Just Crazy! Andy Griffiths , Sydney : Pan , 2000 Z793607 2000 selected work children's fiction humour children's (taught in 3 units)

'"Just Crazy!" Is this the right book for you? Take the crazy test and find out the answer. Answer yes or no: Do you bounce so high on your bed that you hit your head on the ceiling? Do you ever look in the mirror and see a maniac staring back at you? Do you like to read stories about kittens, puppies and ponies getting mashed and pulverised? Do you sometimes get the urge to take your clothes off and cover yourself in mud? Do you often waste your time taking crazy tests like this one? Score by giving one point for each 'yes' answer. If you score 3-5, you are completely crazy. You will love this book. If you score 1-2, you are not completely crazy, but you're not far from it. You will love this book. If you score 0, you are so crazy you don't even realise you're crazy. You will love this book.' (Publication summary)
winner (Picture Book) y separately published work icon Buffy : An Adventure Story Bob Graham , Bob Graham (illustrator), London : Walker Books [London] , 1999 Z820277 1999 single work children's fiction children's adventure
winner (Older Readers) y separately published work icon Tomorrow, When the War Began When the War Began John Marsden , Chippendale : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1993 Z796506 1993 single work novel young adult (taught in 1 units) Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive. (Source: Trove)
winner (Younger Readers) y separately published work icon Bob the Builder and the Elves Emily Rodda , Sydney : ABC Books , 1998 Z834961 1998 single work children's fiction children's humour

Bob the Builder is a very happy man until the day his nice, messy house is infested with elves. The elves tidy up Bob's house till it's horribly clean and bright. They even shine his working boots, polish his hard hat, and put fairy bread in his lunch box. His mates just laugh and laugh. Bob is so embarrassed! But with the help of Lily Sweet, the lady next door, he achieves a compromise, and lots of good things follow.
winner (Picture Books) y separately published work icon Mr McGee and the Biting Flea Pamela Allen , Pamela Allen (illustrator), Ringwood : Viking , 1998 Z915289 1998 single work picture book children's humour
— Appears in: Selected Picture Books of Pamela Allen 2013;

''Mr McGee went out to play, down to the beach one windy day,' the story begins. His happy mood is spoilt when he is bitten by a flea, a flea that he can't get rid of. The only solution is to take off all his clothes and jump into the sea because of course, fleas don't like the sea. Mr McGee and the flea are finally separated and the flea moves on to the hair of a dog instead. The pictures tell the story as well as the text.' (Publication summary)
 
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