The Children’s Book Coun­cil of Aus­tralia grants Best of the Year awards in five cat­e­gories: Older Read­ers (sec­ondary school-age), Younger Read­ers (inde­pen­dent ele­men­tary read­ers), Early Child­hood (pre-reading to early reader), Pic­ture Book and the Eve Pow­nall Award for Infor­ma­tion Book.  The lat­ter two awards are for any age up to 18. I choose two of […]