Goodreads choice award winners

Goodreads awards go to the books voted most popular by its community. They include Young Adult, Young Adult Fantasy, Middle grade and childrens and Picture Books. Announced early December:
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2014

WA Resourcing the Curriculum

Lots of Selection Tools mentioned on this West Australian Department of Education site including lists, awards, blogs, journals etc

Links for Good books

Dymocks’101 best books 2012
Try a book from this list, as voted by 15 000 Aust. readers.

Goodreads

The largest site for readers and book recommendations in the world - a great place to find out about excellent books, popular books, genres, quizzes and quotations. 

The best 100 opening lines from books
Click on the book covers to reveal the lines from excellent books, old and new.

100 best closing lines from books
100 best films based on books 

Literary Awards Australia
Award-winning books - gateway to 300 Aust, US, British, Canadian, NZ & Irish awards. Currently being updated.

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards

Winners and shortlist for 2012.

Australian Independent Bookseller
Weekly Top 10 bestsellers; book news, Indie Awards chosen annually. This year's Indie Award: All that I am by Anna Funder (also won the Miles Franklin Award).

National Year of Reading

More links about reading

The Indigenous Literacy Foundation
The ILF helps to raise literacy levels in remote indigenous communities by donating books and supporting community literacy projects. Over 60 000 books have been donated to over 200 areas in the last few years and some stories have been translated into indigenous languages. Indigenous Literacy Day is Wed 5 Sept 2012.

Children’s Book Council of Australia

Winners 2012   Notable books 2012  

Chicken Spaghetti

This is a great blog for lists of children's books, including Amazon's top tens:

http://chickenspaghetti.typepad.com/

Koala Book Awards

Kids Own Australian Literature Awards are annual awards made by young readers in NSW to the Australian books they have most enjoyed reading during that year. The Shortlist is a good source of titles.

http://www.koalansw.org.au/index.html

Fantastic Fiction

For young adults (and older) this site has everything you need to know about sci fi and fantasy:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/

UKLA

UK Literacy Association (UKLA) Children’s Book Awards longlist has been announced. A great list of books to order:

http://www.ukla.org/awards/ukla_childrens_book_award_2011/
From Random House: "The prestigious longlist has traditionally been a major indicator of the best children books for inclusion in classrooms and schools."