‘Country Town’ Wins CBCA Eve Pownall Award

Congratulations to Isolde Martyn, Robyn Ridgeway and Louise Hogan for winning the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Eve Pownall Award with Country Town!

In more exciting news for this fantastic book, it has been shortlisted in the NSW Premier’s History Awards – Young People’s History Prize.

From the First Peoples’ camp at the river crossing in the 1820s through to Carols by Candlelight at the showground in today’s world, this is a decade by decade wonderfully illustrated story of a small country community.