Children's Peace Literature Award

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Children's Peace Literature Award is an Australian literary prize awarded every other year by the South Australian Psychologists for Peace, an interest group of the Australian Psychological Society. [1]

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The Children's Peace Literature Award was inaugurated in 1987, when Gillian Rubinstein won for her book Space Demons. [1]

Award winners

YearAuthorTitlePublisherReferences
1987 Gillian Rubinstein Space DemonsOmnibus Books [1] [2]
1989 Victor Kelleher The MakersPuffin [2]
1991 Libby Gleeson DodgerPuffin [2]
1993 Isobelle Carmody The GatheringPuffinjoint winners [2] [3]
Bob Graham Rose Meets Mr WintergartenPenguin Books
1995 Brian Caswell DeucalionUniversity of Queensland Press [2]
1997 James Moloney A Bridge to Wiseman's CoveUniversity of Queensland Press [2]
1999 Phillip Gwynne Deadly UnnaPenguin Books [2]
2001James MoloneyTouch MeUniversity of Queensland Press [2]
2003Irini SavvidesSky LegsHodder Headline Australia [2]
2005Kirsten MurphyThe King of WhateverPenguin Books [2]
2007 Michael Gerard Bauer Don't Call Me IshmaelOmnibus [2]
2009 Christine Harris Audrey Goes to TownLittle Hare Booksjoint winners [2]
Kate Constable Winter for GraceAllen & Unwin
2011Sue WalkerArnie AveryWalker Books [2] [4]
2013 Aaron Blabey The Ghost of Miss Annabel SpoonPenguinjunior readers [2] [5]
Barry Jonsberg My Life as an AlphabetAllen & Unwinolder readers [2] [5]
2015Nicole HayesOne True ThingRandom House Australia [2] [6]
2017 Phil Cummings BoyScholastic Australia [2] [7]
2019Sue deGennaroMissing MarvinScholastic Australia [2] [8]

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References

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