- Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book
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Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book Awarded for Excellence in Australian picture books Presented by Children's Book Council of Australia Country Australia First awarded 1955 Official website http://cbca.org.au/index.htm The Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book has been presented annually since 1955 by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA).
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]
Contents
Award winners
Year Author Title Publisher 2009 Kylie Dunstan Collecting Colour Lothian 2008 Matt Ottley Requiem for a Beast Lothian 2007 Shaun Tan The Arrival Lothian 2006 Colin Thompson The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley Lothian 2005 Alison Lester Are We There Yet? A Journey Around Australia Viking Books 2004 Joan Grant, illus. Neil Curtis Cat and Fish Lothian 2003 Norman Jorgensen, illus. Brian Harrison-Lever In Flanders Fields Fremantle Arts Centre Press 2002 Libby Gleeson, illus. Armin Greder An Ordinary Day Scholastic Press 2001 Margaret Wild, illus. Ron Brooks Fox Allen and Unwin 2000 Margaret Wild, illus. Anne Spudvilas Jenny Angel Viking Books 1999 John Marsden, illus. Shaun Tan The Rabbits Lothian 1998 Junko Morimoto, translated by Isao Morimoto The Two Bullies Random House 1997 Elizabeth Honey Not a Nibble! Little Ark 1996 Narelle Oliver The Hunt Lothian 1995 Gary Crew, illus. Stephen Woolman The Watertower Keystone, Era 1994 Gary Crew, illus. Peter Gouldthorpe First Light Lothian 1993 Bob Graham Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten Penguin Books 1992 Jeannie Baker Window Julia MacRae 1991 Bob Graham Greetings From Sandy Beach Lothian 1990 Margaret Wild, illus. Julie Vivas The Very Best of Friends Margaret Hamilton 1989 Allan Baillie, illus. Jane Tanner Drac and the Gremlin Viking Books Graeme Base The Eleventh Hour Viking Books 1988 Bob Graham Crusher is Coming! Lothian 1987 Helen Smith, illus. Junko Morimoto, text based on a story by Kenji Miyazawa Kojuro and the Bears Collins 1986 Terry Denton Felix & Alexander Oxford University Press 1985 No award 1984 Pamela Allen Bertie and the Bear Nelson Australia 1983 Pamela Allen Who Sank the Boat? Nelson Australia 1982 Christobel Mattingley, illus. Patricia Mullins Rummage Angus & Robertson 1981 No award 1980 Peter Pavey One Dragon's Dream Nelson Australia 1979 Percy Trezise and Dick Roughsey The Quinkins Collins 1978 Jenny Wagner, illus. Ron Brooks John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat Viking Kestrel 1977 No award 1976 Dick Roughsey The Rainbow Serpent Collins 1975 A. B. Paterson, illus. Quentin Hole The Man from Ironbark Collins 1974 Jenny Wagner, illus. Ron Brooks The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek Longman Young 1973 No award 1972 No award 1971 A. B. Paterson, illus. Desmond Digby Waltzing Matilda Collins 1970 No award 1969 Ivan Southall, illus. Ted Greenwood Sly Old Wardrobe Cheshire 1968 No award 1967 No award 1966 No award 1965 Elizabeth MacIntyre Hugh's Zoo Constable Young Books 1964 No award 1963 No award 1962 No award 1961 No award 1960 No award 1959 No award 1958 Axel Poignant, illus. photographs Piccaninny Walkabout Angus and Robertson 1957 No award 1956 Peggy Barnard, illus. Shiela Hawkins Wish and the Magic Nut John Sands 1955 No award See also
External links
- CBCA Awards History [1]
References
Categories:- Australian children's literary awards
- Awards established in 1955
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