BILBY Award

The BILBY Awards are organised annually by the Queensland Branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia. The name of the award, BILBY, is an acronym of 'Books I Love Best Yearly'.

These awards are children's choice awards. Each year Queensland children are asked to nominate their favourite book that they have read in the past year; only the winners from the previous two years are excluded from nomination. The nominations are made in three readership categories (see below). The nomination process is the first phase of the awards.

In each category, around five of the most popularly nominated books are grouped into shortlists. In the second phase of the awards students are encouraged to read the books from the list in their readership category and vote for their favourite title. The book receiving the most votes is declared the winner in its category.

Award category and description Prior to 1997 there were three Awards categories for primary school readers – Read Alone, Read Aloud and Read Australian – and one category for Secondary. In 1997 a readership format was introduced, though the Early Readers category was first called the Picture Book category, then the Early Childhood category [see below].

Currently there are three categories:

Early Readers – for books for readers under 8 years old Younger Readers – for books for readers between 8 and 12 years old Older Readers – for books for readers over 12 years old.

List of BILBY Award winners

Early Readers Award Note: Before 2001, this award was called the "Early Childhood" (1990–1999), "Picture Book" (1998–1997) and "Read Alone" (1996–1990) awards.

YearAuthorBookCitation 1990 Superfudge Winner 1991 Winner 1992 Unreal! Winner 1993 Winner 1994 Undone! Winner 1995 Winner 1996 Where's Wally? Winner 1997 Bamboozled Winner 1998 Winner 1999 Gasp! Winner 2000 Grandad's Teeth Winner 2001 Where's Wally? Winner 2002 Buffy – An Adventure Story Winner 2003 Winner 2004 Winner 2005 Old Tom's Holiday Winner 2006 Baby Boomsticks Winner 2007 Ugly fish Winner 2008 Diary of a Wombat Winner 2009 The Twits Winner 2010 Zac Power: Poison Island Winner 2011 Dewey: There's a Cat in the Library! Winner 2012 The Cat in the Hat Winner 2013 Bamboozled Winner 2014 Art & Max Winner 2015 Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Winner 2016 The Book With No Pictures Winner2017Aaron BlabeyPig the PugWinner2018Andy Lee, illus. Heath McKenzieDo Not Open This BookWinner

Younger Readers Award Note: Before 1997, this award was called the "Read Aloud Award".

YearAuthorBookCitation 1990 Matilda Winner 1991 Winner 1992 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Winner 1993 Blabber Mouth Winner 1994 Fantastic Mr Fox Winner 1995 Winner 1996 When the Wind Changed Winner 1997 Matilda Winner 1998 Polar, the Titanic Bear Winner 1999 Detective Donut and the Wild Goose Chase Winner 2000 Just Stupid! Winner 2001 Harry Potter series Winner 2002 Just Crazy! Winner 2003 Winner 2004 Just Disgusting! Winner 2005 Winner 2006 Just Crazy! Winner 2007 The Cat on the Mat Is Flat Winner 2008 Just Shocking! Winner 2009 Pencil of doom! Winner 2010 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Winner 2011 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth Winner 2012 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Winner 2013 The 26-Storey Treehouse Winner 2014 Eric Vale, Epic Fail Winner 2015 The 52-Storey Treehouse Winner 2016 The 65-Storey Treehouse Winner2017The 78-Storey TreehouseWinner2018The 91-Storey TreehouseWinner

Older Readers Award

YearAuthorBookCitation 1990 Winner 1991 Winner 1992 Where's Wally? Winner 1993 Flowers in the Attic Winner 1995 Looking for Alibrandi Winner 1996 Jurassic Park Winner 1997 Winner 1998 Tomorrow, When the War Began Winner 1999 Bumface Winner 2000 Looking for Alibrandi Winner2001 Harry Potter series Winner 2002 Winner 2003 Various authors Two of a Kind series Winner 2004 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Winner 2005 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Winner 2006 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Winner 2007 Eragon Winner 2008 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Winner 2009 Twilight Winner 2010 New Moon Winner 2011 Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Winner 2012 The Hunger Games Winner 2013 Winner 2014 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Winner 2015 The Maze Runner Winner 2016 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Winner2017Ransom RiggsMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ChildrenWinner2018Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireWinner

Read Australia Award

YearAuthorBookCitation 1994 Midnite Winner 1995 Winner 1996 Winner

BILBY Award

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