Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood

The Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood has been presented annually since 2001 by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA).

Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood
Awarded forExcellence in Australian early childhood books
CountryAustralia
Presented byChildren's Book Council of Australia
First awarded2001
Websitehttp://cbca.org.au/index.htm

The Award "will be made to outstanding books of fiction, drama, poetry or concept books for children who are at pre-reading or early stages of reading. They may be picture books, picture storybooks or texts in which illustrations play a substantial part in the storytelling or concept development."[1]

Award winners

2020s

Year Author Title Publisher
2020[2] Frances Watts My Friend Fred Allen & Unwin

2010s

Year Author Title Publisher
2019[3] Alison Lester Tricky's Bad Day Affirm
2018[4] Michael Gerard Bauer, illus. Chrissie Krebs Rodney Loses It! Omnibus Books
2017[5] Johanna Bell, illus. Dion Beasley Go Home, Cheeky Animals! Allen & Unwin
2016[6] Anna Walker Mr Huff Penguin Random House
2015 Libby Gleeson, illus. Freya Blackwood Go to Sleep, Jessie! Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont
2014 Jan Ormerod, illus. Andrew Joyner The Swap Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia
2013 Emma Allen, illus. Freya Blackwood The Terrible Suitcase Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont
2012 Nick Bland, illus. Freya Blackwood The Runaway Hug Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia
2011 Jan Ormerod, illus. Freya Blackwood Maudie and Bear Little Hare Books
2010 Lisa Shanahan, illus. Emma Quay Bear & Chook by the Sea Lothian Books

2000s

Year Author Title Publisher
2009 Bob Graham How to Heal a Broken Wing Walker Books
2008 Aaron Blabey Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley Viking Books
2007 Libby Gleeson, illus. Freya Blackwood Amy and Louis Scholastic Press
2006 Deborah Niland Annie's Chair Viking Books
2005 Mem Fox, illus. Judy Horacek Where Is the Green Sheep? Viking Books
2004 Pamela Allen Grandpa and Thomas Viking Books
2003 Penny Matthews, illus. Andrew McLean A Year on Our Farm Omnibus Books
2002 Bob Graham Let's Get a Pup! Walker Books
2001 Catherine Jinks, illus. Andrew McLean You'll Wake the Baby! Penguin Books

See also

  • CBCA Awards History

References

  1. CBCA Guidelines for Publishers Archived February 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  2. "CBCA Book of the Year 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 16 October 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  3. "CBCA Awards 2019 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 16 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  4. "CBCA - Book of the Year Awards 2018". cbca.org.au. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  5. Convery, Stephanie; Harmon, Steph (17 August 2017). "Claire Zorn's grief-and-surfing story wins children's book of the year award". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  6. Paek, Jooae. "Subject guides: Early Childhood Education: Children's Book Council of Australia". libguides.acu.edu.au. Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
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