Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature–2011 Shortlist

| Tasha

The 2011 shortlist for the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature has been announced.  The Australian prize is offered for “a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry written for children up to secondary school level.”

Here is the shortlist:

  

Clancy and Millie and the Very Fine House by Libby Gleeson and Freya Blackwood (available in US)

Mirror by Jeannie Baker (available in US)

My Australian Story: The Hunt for Ned Kelly by Sophie Masson

  

Shrieking Violet by Emma Quay

The Three Loves of Persimmon by Cassandra Golds

Where There’s Smoke by John Heffernan