Speak Out October 2017

Embargoed until 2 November 2017 *

THE WINNERS

BIRTH TO 3 YEARS Noisy Nature by Mandy A Kuhne Illustrated by Alex Kuhne

BOOK OF THE YEAR

Speech Pathology Australia

THREE TO 5 YEARS Me and You by Deborah Kelly Illustrated by Karen Blair

THE WINNERS ARE in and everything is in place for the Speech Pathology Book of the Year 2017 Awards Ceremony, to be conducted in Brisbane. Thanks to the State Library of Queensland for their ongoing support of the Book of the Year Awards, and for hosting the awards ceremony again in 2017. The winners of the 2017 Book of the Year will be formally announced on Thursday 2 November. Until then, please keep the winners a secret! Everyone is welcome to attend the ceremony. Formalities get underway from 10.30 am at the State Library of Queensland, Auditorium 1, Level 2, Cultural Precinct, Stanley Place, South Brisbane. A big thank you to all of this year’s Book of the Year judges, without whom there would be no awards. The time and effort taken by the judges to read the books, and then to prioritise and pass comment on the best ones, is significant. The judges can only undertake their tasks once the mountain of nominated books has been reduced to a select few by our dedicated “shortlisters” and our partners at Let’s Read (who shortlist the books in the Birth to 3 years category). In 2017, there was a huge 152 books nominated for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards. Feedback from the judges was that the standard across the 55 books shortlisted for judging was extremely high. Congratulations again to all the authors and illustrators who had a book shortlisted. Details of the shortlisted books can found on the Book of the Year webpage: www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/books Everyone can help celebrate the Book of the Year Awards and the winning books. You can do this by recommending the winning titles to parents and educators, displaying the Book of the Year poster in your workplace, and talking to your local library about promoting the awards and the winning books. Again, please keep the winners a secret until 2 November! And the winners are…

FIVE TO 8 YEARS Somewhere Else Written and illustrated by Gus Gordon

EIGHT TO 10 YEARS Artie and the Grime Wave Written and illustrated by Richard Roxburgh

INDIGENOUS CHILDREN

Mad Magpie Written and illustrated by Gregg Dreise

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October 2017 www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au

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