Speech Pathology Australia BOTY shortlist 2016

Shortlisted Book of the Year 2016

The best books for language and literacy

Click through to view each category of books shortlisted for 2016!

2016 BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS

Birth to Three Years

Shortlisted Book of the Year 2016

Sara Acton

As Big As You

Annie White

Clementine's Bath

Kate Mayes

Daddy Cuddle

Aaron Blabey

I Need a Hug

Janeen Brian (Ann James)

I'm a Hungry Dinosaur

Bianca Ebeling

Let's go outside

Renee Tremi

Once I Heard A Little Wombat

Margaret Wild

The Pocket Dogs and the Lost Kitten

Three to 5 Years

Shortlisted Book of the Year 2016

Heath McKenzie

Archie no ordinary Sloth

Margaret Wild

Bogtrotter

Cheryl Orsini

Caravan Fran

Carlee Yardley

Dog and the Lost Leg

Jane Godwin (Andrew Joyner)

How Big is Too Small

Bob Graham

How the Sun Got to Coco’s House

Emma Allen (Hannah Sommerville)

My Friend Ernest

Ronojoy Ghosh

Ollie and the Wind

Raewyn Calsley (Karen Blair)

Something Wonderful

Jill Lever (Terry Denton)

The Worm Who Knew Karate

Craig McLean

What Noise Comes from a Giraffe

Five to 8 Years

Shortlisted Book of the Year 2016

Megan Forward

A Patch from Scratch

Corinne Fenton

Bob the Railway Dog

Susan Whelan (Gwynneth Jones)

Don’t think about Purple Elephants

Chris Collin

Funky Chicken: Chooks in Space

Tania Ingram

Jinny and Cooper: My Teacher’s Big Bad Secret

Chris McKimmie

Me, Teddy

Hilary Bell and Antonia Pesenti

Numerical Street

Pickle and Bree: Guide to Good Deeds - The Decorating Disaster

Alison Reynolds (Mikki Butterly)

Aaron Blabey

The Bad Guys: Episode 1

Tim Cahill

Tiny Timmy #1: Soccer Superstar

Anh Do

Weirdo #4 Super Weird

Three to 5 Years

Shortlisted Book of the Year 2016

Samantha Wheeler

Mister Cassowary

Claire Saxby

My Name is Lizzie Flynn - A Story of the Rajah Quilt

Nick Earls

New Boy

Katrina Nannestad

Olive of Groves

Steve Worland

Paper Planes

Rebecka Sharpe Shelberg

Reflection

Trace Balla

Rockhopping

Morris Gleitzman

Soon

Barbara Gonzalez

The Best of Friends

Gillian Mears

The Cat with the Coloured Tail

Indigenous Children

Shortlisted Book of the Year 2016

Warren Brim

ABC Dreaming

Mark Greenwood (Terry Denton)

Boomerang and Bat

Dave Hartley and Scott Prince

Deadly D and Justice Jones: The Search

Johanna Bell (Dion Beasley)

Go Home, Cheeky Animals

Anita Heiss

Harry’s Secret

Kathleen Hubert

Kathleentharndu wanggangarli

Gregg Dreise

Kookoo Kookaburra

Anita Heiss

Matty’s Comeback

Venetia Tyson

My Lost Mob

Tiwi College Alalinguwi Jarrakarlinga

Nginingawila Ngirramini: Our Story

Aunty Ruth Hegarty

Pip and Pim

Kay Crabbe

The Pearl-Shell Diver

Corina Martin (Fern Martins)

The Toast Tree