Awards Madness! Children’s Books in the shortlists

Awards Madness! Children’s Books in the shortlists

April is a busy month for award-watching: the inaugural Stella Prize is announced on April 16, longlists for the Kibble & Dobbie Awards were released, along with those for the the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and, for those of us with a specific interest in books...
February 2013 Roundup: Children’s books

February 2013 Roundup: Children’s books

The months over the summer school holidays are usually pretty quiet in children’s publishing. After the frantic lead-up to Christmas, with new titles by big-selling authors and the plethora of Christmas-related titles and gift books hitting the shelves, things...
2012 AWW Challenge: Children’s Fiction

2012 AWW Challenge: Children’s Fiction

I’ve been feeling for some time now that children’s books have become the poor relation of the category that bears their name—children’s literature. Across the world, children’s books, as an academic discipline, as a department in a publishing house, as a section in...