Andy Griffiths

Just Shocking wins 6 Australian Children’s choice awards

Andy Griffiths has become the first Australian author to win six children’s choice reading awards in one year, smashing his previous record of four children’s choice awards for the highly controversial The Bad Book in 2005. 

JUST SHOCKING! won the younger reader’s categories of QLD’s BILBY Award (Books I Love Best Yearly), ACT’s COOL Award (Canberra’s Own Outstanding List), NSW’s KOALA Award (Kids Own Australian Literature Award) NT’s KROC Award (Kids Reading Oz Choice), WA’s WAYRBA Award (West Australian Young Readers’ Book Award) and VIC’s YABBA Award (Young Australians’ Best Book Award).

Each year, young readers in every state vote for the book they have most enjoyed reading that year. Australian children unanimously voted Andy Griffiths as their favourite author for younger readers in 2008.

JUST SHOCKING is the sixth in the ‘JUST’ series of books, first launched in 1997 with JUST TRICKING! Andy Griffiths has now sold over one million copies of his ‘JUST’ books in Australia, taking his total sales worldwide to over four million. His books have now won over 40 Australian children’s choice awards over the last ten years. 

 Andy Griffiths said, ‘As a child I loved the rambunctious anarchic  humour of Lewis Carroll, Dr Seuss and the Cole’s Funny Picture Books  and with the help of Terry Denton’s demented doodling I am thrilled to have been able to transmit this humour to a whole new generation through the Just series.’

Posted on 18 November 2008 Permanent link to this post