Eve Pownall Award checklist
Every Eve Pownall Award book on our site, newest first. Print it and tick off the ones you have read.
| Read | Year | Title | By | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Peculiar Parents | Stephanie Owen Reeder | Winner | |
| 2025 | Always Was, Always Will Be | Aunty Fay Muir and Sue Lawson | Winner | |
| 2024 | Country Town | Isolde Martyn and Robyn Ridgeway | Winner | |
| 2023 | DEEP: Delve into hidden worlds | Jess McGeachin | Winner | |
| 2022 | Still Alive, Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System | Safdar Ahmed | Winner | |
| 2021 | Dry to Dry: The Seasons of Kakadu | Pamela Freeman | Winner | |
| 2020 | Young Dark Emu: A truer history | Bruce Pascoe | Winner | |
| 2019 | Sorry Day | Coral Vass | Winner | |
| 2018 | Do Not Lick This Book | Idan Ben-Barak | Winner | |
| 2017 | Amazing Animals of Australia's National Parks | Gina M. Newton | Winner | |
| 2016 | Lennie The Legend: Solo to Sydney by Pony | Stephanie Owen Reeder | Winner | |
| 2015 | A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land | Simon Barnard | Winner | |
| 2014 | Jeremy | Christopher Faille | Winner | |
| 2013 | Tom the Outback Mailman | Kristin Weidenbach | Winner | |
| 2012 | One Small Island: The Story of Macquarie Island | Alison Lester and Coral Tulloch | Winner | |
| 2011 | The Return of the Word Spy | Ursula Dubosarsky | Winner | |
| 2010 | Australian Backyard Explorer | Peter Macinnis | Winner | |
| 2009 | Alive in the Death Zone | Lincoln Hall | Winner | |
| 2008 | Parsley Rabbit's Book about Books | Frances Watts | Winner | |
| 2007 | The Penguin Book: Birds in Suits | Mark Norman | Winner | |
| 2006 | Scarecrow Army: The ANZACS at Gallipoli | Leon Davidson | Winner | |
| 2005 | To the Moon and Back: The Amazing Australians at the Forefront of Space Travel Plus Fantastic Moon Facts | Jackie French with Bryan Sullivan | Winner | |
| 2004 | Animal Architects | John Nicholson | Winner | |
| 2003 | Iron in the Blood: Convicts and Commandants in Colonial Australia | Allan Tucker | Winner | |
| 2002 | Papunya School Book of Country and History | Papunya School Publishing Committee | Winner | |
| 2001 | Olympia: Warrior Athletes of Ancient Greece | Dyan Blacklock | Winner | |
| 2000 | Fishing for Islands: Traditional Boats and Seafarers of the Pacific | John Nicholson | Winner | |
| 1999 | The Rabbits | John Marsden | Winner | |
| 1998 | A Home Among the Gum Trees: The Story of Australian Houses | John Nicholson | Winner | |
| 1997 | Killer Plants and How to Grow Them | Gordon Cheers and Julie Silk | Winner | |
| 1996 | The First Fleet: A New Beginning in an Old Land | John Nicholson | Winner | |
| 1995 | New Faces: The Complete Book of Alternative Pets | Robert E. Stewart | Winner | |
| 1994 | V for Vanishing: An Alphabet of Endangered Animals | Patricia Mullins | Winner | |
| 1993 | Tjarany Roughtail: The Dreaming of the Roughtail Lizard and Other Stories told by the Kukatja | Gracie Greene and Joe Tramacchi | Winner | |
| 1988 | My Place | Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins | Winner |
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