Catherine Bateson - Awards and Nominations

Awards and Nominations

“This is the Poem”

John Shaw Neilson Award for poetry.

2006 Faw Mary Grant Bruce Short Story Award For Children’s Literature

2003 - Rain May and Captain Daniel

winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, younger readers

shortlisted for New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrighton Prize for Children's Literature

Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Children’s Book Award

2003 - Painted Love Letters

CBCA Honour Book recognition

winner 2003 Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature

2003 shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for young people's literature

Children's Book Council of Australia Awards (2003) Honour Book, older readers.

2005 - Millie and the Night Heron

Honour Book, CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers

2007 - His Name In Fire

Notable CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers

Shortlist, Queensland Premier's Award

2007 - Being Bee

Winner CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers

2009 - The Wish Pony, Woolshed Press

CBCA Honour Book, Younger Readers