2026 Winners Announcement: Karajia and Environment Awards for Children's Literature

On 10 October at 2:15pm the winners of the Karajia and Environment Awards for Children’s Literature will be announced at Harry Hartog Chatswood.

The afternoon will start off with a nature-book inspired craft session with Shannon from Oh Creative Day at 1:30pm.

Then at 2:15pm, we’ll announce the winners of the Wilderness Society’s children’s book awards. We’ll be joined by judge Kristin Darell. 

We’d love to see you at Harry Hartog Chatswood! 10% of sales of the shortlisted and winning titles is donated to the Wilderness Society to help protect nature for future generations.

What better way to celebrate Love Your Bookshop Day and Nature Book Week (10-18 October) is there than that?

We’re adding more activities all the time, so stay tuned!

About the Karajia and Environment Awards for Children's Literature

Since 1994, The Wilderness Society has been celebrating the best new fiction, non-fiction and picture books written for children that promote a love of nature, feed kids' curiosity and help that seed grow into a lifelong love of nature.

The Karajia Award for Children's Literature promotes themes that honour a connection to Country and celebrates the telling of indiginous stories exploring land, community culture and language.

The Environment Award for Children's Literature celebrates books that encourage a caring attitude towards the natural environment and promotes and awareness of environmental issues.

About the Wilderness Society

For 50 years, the Wilderness Society has stood at the forefront of Australia’s most historic environmental victories. Powered by thousands of Australians from all walks of life. the Wilderness Society works to support the living world that makes all life possible (including our own).

The Wilderness Society began in 1976 — a meeting of just 16 people in the home of Tasmanian GP, Dr Bob Brown. The passionate campaign that emerged to save the Franklin River rocked the political orthodoxy and defined a generation.

Hundreds gathered on the banks of the Franklin to stop the Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Commission's plan to dam the river.

It sparked a nation-wide movement and was won in 1983, saving this timeless landscape.

From that moment, they believe in protecting, promoting and restoring wilderness and natural processes across Australia for the survival and ongoing evolution of life on Earth.

From the corridors of Canberra to the streets of your town, they're taking on transnational corporations, rogue operators, and the armies of lobbyists and politicians who defend them.