CBCA Awards for 2009 have just been announced and the winner in the Older Readers category is Shaun Tan, Tales From Outer Suburbia. Jackie French and Anthony Eaton were awarded the Honour Book award for A Rose for the Anzac Boys, and Into White Silence, respectively.

Now might be the time to reread our reviews and each of the Shortlisted books once more.

Do you agree with the judges choices? How do you think they made their choices between the nominated books this year?

See: http://cbca.org.au/winners2009.htm for details of all categories in this year’s awards.