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Book of the Year Shortlisted books announced

Despite the challenges thrown-up by COVID-19 there were a record 218 titles nominated for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year awards in 2020. All these books have now been shortlisted and complete list of all the shortlisted books is available from the Association’s website. Following shortlisting, the resulting books are judged in one of the four age-related categories: Birth to 3 years, three to 5 years, five to 8 years, and eight to 10 years. The former Indigenous Children category has been renamed the ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Authored Children’s Book Award’ and its judging incorporated into the process for the four age-specific categories. This means that a book, written by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander author, is eligible to win both the age-related category for which it has been nominated and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Authored Children’s Book Award category. The Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards are now in the seventieth year. These highly valued awards are not possible without the ongoing support of Australian children book publishers (mainstream and independent) and the authors and illustrators of children’s books. The awards would not be possible with the time and efforts of the members who volunteer as shortlisters and judges. A huge thank you must therefore go to the awards’ shortlisters who worked their way through a record number of nominations in the age-related categories: Lyn Goodwin, Claire Monsour, Evett Lattouf and Natasha Barlow. The judging process is now underway, and thanks

goes to all the volunteer judges. The winners in all categories will be announced on Friday 6 November.

Thank you to the 2020 judges

Birth to 3 Years Lisa Ey Samantha White Rebecca Reinking Olivia Watchman Sharon Smart Nisrine El-Choueifati Iris Yamagishi Rebecca Star Three to 5 Years Jacqui Collins

Five to 8 Years Danielle Ryan Julie Martin

Anna Gilmour Jacqui Hanna Melissa Hughes Lauren Scott Alexandra Sevdalis- Fallaw Janice Zee Eight to 10 Years Pam Reed Erin Coonan Laura Nelson Malathi Ferdinando Kate Augello Kylie Johnson-Short

Asha Bodycoat Lauren Haskins Christine Beal

Olivia MacGinley Melissa Roberts Meryl Lai Kong Ling Lindsay Potgieter

Angela Spurway Stephanie Gibb

BOOK OF THE YEAR

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