Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book

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Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book
Awarded forExcellence in Australian picture books
Country Australia
Presented by Children's Book Council of Australia
First awarded1955
Website http://cbca.org.au/index.htm

The Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book has been presented occasionally since 1955 by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA).

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The Award "will be made to outstanding books of the Picture Book genre in which the author and illustrator achieve artistic and literary unity, or, in wordless picture books, where the story, theme or concept is unified through illustrations." [1]

Award winners

1950s

YearAuthorIllustratorBookPublisherRef.
1955 No award [2]
1956 Peggy BarnardSheila HawkinsWish and the Magic Nut John Sands [3]
1957 No award [2]
1958 Axel Poignant photographsPiccaninny Walkabout Angus & Robertson [4]
1959 No award [2]

1960s

YearAuthorIllustratorBookPublisherRef.
1960 No award [5]
1961 No award [5]
1962 No award [5]
1963 No award [5]
1964 No award [5]
1965 Elisabeth MacIntyre Hugh's ZooConstable Young Books [6]
1966 No award [7]
1968 No award [8]
1969 Ivan Southall Ted Greenwood Sly Old WardrobeCheshire [9]

1970s

YearAuthorIllustratorBookPublisherRef.
1970 No award [10]
1971 A. B. Paterson Desmond Digby Waltzing Matilda Collins [11]
1974 Jenny Wagner Ron Brooks The Bunyip of Berkeley's CreekLongman Young [12]
1975 A. B. Paterson Quentin Hole The Man from Ironbark Collins [13]
1976 Dick Roughsey Dick Roughsey The Rainbow Serpent Collins [14]
1978 Jenny Wagner Ron Brooks John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat Viking Kestrel
1979 Percy Trezise Dick Roughsey The Quinkins Collins

1980s

YearAuthorIllustratorBookPublisherRef.
1980 Peter PaveyOne Dragon's DreamNelson Australia [15]
1981 No award [16]
1982 Jan Ormerod Jan Ormerod SunshinePenguin Books [17]
1983 Pamela Allen Pamela Allen Who Sank the Boat?Nelson Australia [18]
1984 Pamela Allen Pamela Allen Bertie and the BearNelson Australia [19]
1985 Not awarded [20]
1986 Terry Denton Terry Denton Felix & Alexander Oxford University Press [21]
1987 Helen Smith , text based on a story by Kenji Miyazawa Junko Morimoto Kojuro and the Bears Collins [22]
1988 Bob Graham Bob Graham Crusher is Coming!Lothian [23]
1989 Graeme Base Graeme Base The Eleventh Hour Viking Books [24]
Allan Baillie Jane Tanner Drac and the Gremlin Viking Kestrel [25]

1990s

YearAuthorIllustratorBookPublisherRef.
1990 Margaret Wild Julie Vivas The Very Best of FriendsMargaret Hamilton
1991 Bob Graham Bob Graham Greetings from Sandy BeachLothian
1992 Jeannie Baker WindowJulia MacRae
1993 Bob Graham Bob Graham Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten Penguin Books
1994 Gary Crew Peter Gouldthorpe First LightLothian
1995 Gary Crew Stephen Woolman The Watertower Keystone, Era
1996 Narelle Oliver The HuntLothian
1997 Elizabeth Honey Not a Nibble! Little Ark
1998 Junko Morimoto , translated by Isao Morimoto Junko Morimoto The Two Bullies Random House
1999 John Marsden Shaun Tan The RabbitsLothian

2000s

YearAuthorIllustratorBookPublisherRef.
2000 Margaret Wild Anne Spudvilas Jenny Angel Viking Books
2001 Margaret Wild Ron Brooks Fox Allen and Unwin
2002 Libby Gleeson Armin Greder An Ordinary Day Scholastic Press
2003 Norman Jorgensen Brian Harrison-Lever In Flanders Fields Fremantle Arts Centre Press
2004 Joan GrantNeil CurtisCat and FishLothian
2005 Alison Lester Alison Lester Are We There Yet? A Journey Around Australia Viking Books
2006 Colin Thompson The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of RileyLothian
2007 Shaun Tan Shaun Tan The ArrivalLothian
2008 Matt Ottley Requiem for a BeastLothian
2009 Kylie Dunstan Collecting Colour Lothian

2010s

YearAuthorIllustratorBookPublisherRef.
2010 Gregory Rogers The Hero of Little Street Allen & Unwin
2011 Jeannie Baker Mirror Walker Books
2011 Nicki Greenberg Hamlet Allen & Unwin
2012 Bob Graham Bob Graham A Bus Called Heaven Walker Books
2013 Julie Hunt Ron Brooks The Coat Allen & Unwin
2014 Shaun Tan Shaun Tan Rules of Summer Hachette Australia
2015 Irena Kobald Freya Blackwood My Two Blankets Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont
2016 Nadia Wheatley Armin Greder FlightWindy Hollow Books [26]
2017 Bob Graham Bob Graham Home in the Rain Walker Books [27]
2018 Gwyn Perkins Gwyn Perkins A Walk in the BushAffirm Press [28]
2019 Shaun Tan Shaun Tan CicadaLothian [29]

2020s

YearAuthorIllustratorBookPublisherRef.
2020 Chris McKimmie Chris McKimmie I Need a ParrotFord Street [30]
2021 Meg McKinlay Matt Ottley How to Make a BirdWalker Books [31]
2022 Claire Saxby Jess Racklyeft IcebergAllen & Unwin [32]
2023 Zeno Sworder Zeno Sworder My Strange Shrinking ParentsThames & Hudson [33]
2024 Kelly CanbyKelly CanbyTimelessFremantle Press [34]

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  1. ↑ CBCA Guidelines for Publishers Archived February 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
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  9. ↑ "Book Council Award Winners". The Canberra Times . 12 July 1969. p. 16. Archived from the original on 7 March 2023. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
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