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Short List 2015 The Book of the Year: Early Childhood Pig the Pug Aaron Blabey Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia ISBN: 9781743624777 Scary Night Lesley Gibbes (Illust: Stephen Michael King) Working Title Press ISBN: 9781921504631 Go to Sleep, Jessie! Libby Gleeson (Illust: Freya Blackwood) Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont ISBN: 9781742977805 A House of Her Own Jenny Hughes (Illust: Jonathan Bentley) Hardie Grant Egmont ISBN: 9781742974620 Snail and Turtle are Friends Stephen Michael King Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia ISBN: 9781743620236 Noni the Pony goes to the Beach Alison Lester Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781743311141 The Book of the Year: Older Readers Nona & Me Claire Atkins Black Inc. ISBN: 9781863956895 Intruder Christine Bongers Random House Australia ISBN: 9780857983763 Are You Seeing Me? Darren Groth Random House Australia ISBN: 9780857984739 The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl Melissa Keil Hardie Grant Egmont ISBN: 9781742978307 The Minnow Diana Sweeney Text Publishing ISBN: 9781922182012 The Protected Claire Zorn University of Queensland Press ISBN: 9780702250194 The Book of the Year: Younger Readers Two Wolves Tristan Bancks Random House Australia ISBN: 9780857982032 The Simple Things Bill Condon Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781743317242 The Cleo Stories The Necklace and the Present Libby Gleeson (Illust: Freya Blackwood) Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781743315279 Bleakboy and Hunter Stand out in the Rain Steven Herrick University of Queensland Press ISBN: 9780702250163 Figgy in the World Tamsin Janu Omnibus Books, Scholastic Australia ISBN: 9781742990453 Withering-by-Sea: a Stella Montgomery Intrigue Judith Rossell ABC Books, HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780733333002 The Eve Pownall Award for Information Books A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land Simon Barnard Text Publishing ISBN: 9781922079343 Coming of Age: Growing up Muslim in Australia Demet Divaroren ed. Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781743312926 Mary's Australia: How Mary Mackillop Changed Australia Pamela Freeman Black Dog Books, Walker Books Australia ISBN: 9781922077905 Tea and Sugar Christmas Jane Jolly (Illust: Robert Ingpen) National Library of Australia ISBN: 9780642278630 Emu Claire Saxby (Illust: Graham Byrne) Walker Books Australia ISBN: 9781922179708 Audacity: Stories of Heroic Australians in Wartime Carlie Walker Department of Veterans Affairs ISBN: 9781877007934 The Picture Book of the Year Rivertime Trace Balla Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781743316337 My Two Blankets Freya Blackwood (Text: Irena Kobald) Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont ISBN: 9781921714764 One Minute's Silence Michael Camilleri (Text: David Metzenthen) Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781743316245 Fire Jackie French (Illust: Bruce Whatley) Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia ISBN: 9781742838175 The Duck and the Darklings Glenda Millard (Illust: Stephen Michael King) Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781743312612 The Stone Lion Margaret Wild (Illust: Riyva Voutila) Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont ISBN: 9781921894855