Home » Store » Books » Award Winning Books » CBCA Children's Book of the Year (Australia)

CBCA Children's Book of the Year (Australia)

2010-20062005-20012000-19961995-19911990-19861985-19811980-19761975-19711970-19661965-19611960-19561955-19511950-1946

The Children's Book of the Year Awards are presented by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) annually for books with an implied readership under the age of eighteen.

2009

Early Childhood Winner - How to Heal a Broken Wing

by Bob Graham
New from $6.9911 used from $6.98

In a spare urban fable, Bob Graham brings us one small boy, one loving family, and one miraculous story of hope and healing. “No one saw...

Honor

  • Leaf by Stephen Michael King

    • Eve Pownall Book of the Year Winner - Alive in the Death Zone: Mount Everest Survival

    by Lincoln Hall
    New from $52.892 used from $39.18

    ALIVE IN THE DEATH ZONE: Mount Everest Survival, Lincoln Hall’s story of climbing the world’s highest mountain, being left for dead near the summit and... more

    Older Readers Book of the Year Winner - Tales from Outer Suburbia

    by Shaun Tan
    New from $68.353 used from $49.99

    An exchange student who’s really an alien, a secret room that becomes the perfect place for a quick escape, a typical tale of grandfatherly...

    Honor

  • A Rose for the Anzac Boys by Jackie French

    • Picture Book of the Year Winner - Collecting Colour

    by Kylie Dunstan

    Honor

  • The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness by Colin Thompson

    • Younger Readers Book of the Year Winner - Perry Angel’s Suitcase

    by Glenda Millard

    Honor

  • Then by Morris Gleitzman

    • 2008

    Early Childhood Winner - Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley

    by Aaron Blabey
    New from $10.1711 used from $7.19

    Honor

  • Cat by Mike Dumbleton
  • Lucy Goosey by Margaret Wild

    • Older Readers Winner - The Ghost’s Child

    by Sonya Hartnett
    New from $53.92

    Read a superb review of the book on the UK Guardian site. more

    Honor

  • Marty’s Shadow by John Heffernan

    • Picture Book of the Year Winner - Requiem for a Beast

    by Matthew Ottley
    New from $60.581 used from $152.45

    Here is one reader’s review of this stunning ‘multi-modal’ novel. more

    Younger Readers Winner - Dragon Moon

    by Carole Wilkinson
    New from $10.965 used from $10.94

    In the time of the Han Dynasty in ancient China, a young orphan prepares for a difficult journey. Ping has grown to become a skilled...

    2007

    Early Childhood Winner - Amy & Louis

    by Libby Gleeson

    Honour Book

  • Chatterbox by Margaret Wild
  • Doodledum dancing by Meredith Costain

    • Shortlist

  • Eight by Lee Lyn
  • Ella Kazoo will not brush her hair by Lee Fox...
  • Grandpa and Thomas go to the beach by Pamela Allen

    • Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Winner - The penguin book: birds in suits

    by Dr. Mark Norman
    New from $27.507 used from $24.80

    Honour Book

  • Queenie: one elephant’s story by Corinne Fenton
  • Red haze: Australians & New Zealanders in Vietnam by Leon Davidson

    • Older Readers Winner - Red spikes

    by Margo Lanagan
    New from $9.7318 used from $0.01

    Margo Lanagan’s electrifying stories take place in worlds not quite our own, and yet each one illuminates what it is to be human. They are...

    Shortlist

  • Don’t Call Me Ishmael! by Michael Gerard Bauer
  • My Big Birkett by Lisa Shanahan
  • One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke

    • Honour Book

  • Monster blood tattoo book 1: Foundling by D.M. CORNISH
  • The red shoe by Ursula Dubosarsky

    • Picture Book Winner - The Arrival

    by Shaun Tan
    New from $10.5034 used from $10.29

    “A shockingly imaginative graphic novel that captures the sense of adventure and wonder that surrounds a new arrival on the shores of a shining new...

    Shortlist

  • Brian Banana Duck Sunshine Yellow by Chris McKimmie
  • Home by Narelle Oliver by Narelle Oliver
  • Water witcher by Jan Omerod

    • Honour Book

  • The Rainbirds by Sally Rippin
  • Woolvs in the sitee by Margaret Wild...

    • Younger Readers Winner - Being Bee

    by Catherine Bateson
    New from $3.825 used from $3.73

    Bee can’t understand what her father sees in Jazzi. Ever since Bee’s mom died, she, her dad, and her two guinea pigs, Fifi and Lulu,...

    Honour Book

  • Bird & Sugar Boy by Sofie Laguna
  • The tuckshop kid by Pat Flynn

    • Shortlist

  • Layla, Queen of hearts by Michael King
  • Macbeth and son by Jackie French
  • The Cat on the mat is flat by Andy Griffiths

    • 2006

    Early Childhood Winner - Annie’s Chair

    by Deborah Niland
    New from $5.7513 used from $1.08

    It’s so hard to share your favorite thing.Meet Annie. Annie loves her chair. She’s had it ever since she was tiny. No one is allowed...

    Shortlist

  • Daddy’s Having a Horse by Shanahan L...
  • Emily’s Rapunzel Hair by Cecily Matthews
  • Rex by Ursula Dubosarsky
  • What the Sky Knows by Nike Bourke

    • Honour Book

  • Kisses for Daddy by Frances Watts

    • Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Winner - Scarecrow Army: The ANZACS at Gallipoli

    by Leon Davidson

    Shortlist

  • Charles Darwin’s Big Idea: The revolutionary theory of evolution by Robin Stewart
  • Creatures of the Rainforest: Two artists explore Djabugay country by Warren Brim
  • The Big Picture Book: See life on Earth unfolding through time by John Long

    • Honour Book

  • Hoosh! Camels in Australia by Janeen Brian
  • The Glory Garage: Growing up Lebanese Muslim in Australia by Nadia; Chandab-Adasi, Taghred Jamal

    • Older Readers Winner - The Story of Tom Brennan

    by J.C. Burke
    4 used from $3.66

    Shortlist

  • Chasing Charlie Duskin by Cath Crowley
  • Double Exposure by Brian Caswell
  • It’s Not All About You, Calma! by Barry Jonsberg

    • Honour Book

  • Lost Property by James Moloney
  • No Worries by Bill Condon

    • Picture Book Winner - The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley

    by Colin Thompson
    New from $15.955 used from $28.21

    Human beings live for quite a long time and for a lot of that time we are not happy. We want to be taller, shorter,...

    Shortlist

  • Irving the Magician by Tohby Riddle
  • Run, Hare, Run! The story of a drawing by John Winch

    • Honour Book

  • The Island by Peter Sheehan
  • The Sound of the Sea by Jacqueline Harvey

    • Younger Readers Winner - Helicopter Man

    by Elizabeth Fensham
    New from $2.8322 used from $0.01

    Fifteen-year-old Peter Sinclair’s father is a paranoid schizophrenic, afraid of helicopters, police, and life itself. When Peter’s mother leaves home one day and doesn’t return,...

    Shortlist

  • How Hedley Hopkins did a dare, robbed a grave, made a new friend who might not have really been there at all, and while he was at it committed a terrible sin which everyone was doing even though he didn’t know it 
  • The True Story of Mary: Who wanted to stand on her head by Jane Godwin
  • To the Light by Pat Flynn

    • Honour Book

  • Millie and the Night Heron by Catherine Bateson
  • Once by Morris Gleitzman
    • See previous winners »

    About Us | Contact Us | Customer Service | Help | RSS | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use

    Copyright © 2009, Looking Glass Ventures, LLC. All rights reserved.