Congratulations 2015 Environment Award for Children’s Literature winners!

This year, we were so pleased to have the 2014 Environment Award for Children’s Literature picture fiction winner, Christina Booth, and multi-award winning author Barry Jonsberg as judges.

Morris Gleitzman helped us celebrate excellence in environmental children’s literature this year with an incredible keynote speech about how beautiful books and stories can grow the wilderness of children’s imaginations.

Again, congratulations to all the shortlisted books this year– it was an incredible year! And a huge congratulations to the 2015 Environment Award for Children’s Literature winners.

Picture Fiction
	Rivertime Allen & Unwin – Publisher Trace Balla – Author and Illustrator
Fiction
	Rescue on Nim’s Island Allen & Unwin – Publisher Wendy Orr – Author Geoff Kelly – Illustrator
Non-Fiction
	Our Class Tiger [joint winner] Oxford University Press – Publisher Aleesah Darlison – Author Antonia Stylianou – Illustrator
	Emu [joint winner] Walker Books – Publisher Claire Saxby – Author Graham Byrne – Illustrator

The winners of the first annual Puggle Award:

Picture Fiction
	Zobi and the Zoox Scale Free Network – Publisher Ailsa Wild (main), with Briony Barr & Gregory Crocetti – Author Aviva Reed – Illustrator
Fiction
	Rescue on Nim’s Island Allen & Unwin – Publisher Wendy Orr – Author Geoff Kelly – Illustrator
Non-Fiction
	Our Class Tiger Oxford University Press – Publisher Aleesah Darlison – Author Antonia Stylianou – Illustrator