Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers
The Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers has been presented annually since 1946 by the Children's Book Council of Australia. Note: from 1946 to 1986 this award was known as "Book of the Year".
The Award "will be made to outstanding books of fiction, drama, or poetry which require of the reader a degree of maturity to appreciate the topics, themes and scope of emotional involvement. Generally, books in this category will be appropriate in style and content for readers in their secondary years of schooling."
Award winners
2010s
2000s
1990s
1980s
1970s
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher |
| 1979 | Ruth Manley, illustrated by Marianne Yamaguchi | The Plum-Rain Scroll | Hodder and Stoughton |
| 1978 | Patricia Wrightson | The Ice is Coming | Hutchinson |
| 1977 | Eleanor Spence, illustrated by Malcolm Green | The October Child | Oxford University Press |
| 1976 | Ivan Southall | Fly West | Angus and Robertson |
| 1975 | No award | ||
| 1974 | Patricia Wrightson | The Nargun and the Stars | Hutchinson |
| 1973 | Noreen Shelley, illustrated by Robert Micklewright | Family at The Lookout | Oxford University Press |
| 1972 | H. F. Brinsmead | Longtime Passing | Angus and Robertson |
| 1971 | Ivan Southall | Bread and Honey | Angus and Robertson |
| 1970 | Annette Macarthur-Onslow | Uhu | Ure Smith |