Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood

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 award2001
Websitehttp://cbca.org.au/index.htm

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).

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

2000s

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

2010s

Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
2010 Lisa Shanahan, illus. Emma Quay Bear & Chook by the Sea Lothian Books
2011 Jan Ormerod, illus. Freya Blackwood Maudie and Bear Little Hare Books
2012 Nick Bland, illus. Freya Blackwood The Runaway Hug Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia
2013 Emma Allen, illus. Freya Blackwood The Terrible Suitcase Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont
2014 Jan Ormerod, illus. Andrew Joyner The Swap Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia
2015 Libby Gleeson, illus. Freya Blackwood Go to Sleep, Jessie! Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont
2016 Anna Walker Mr Huff Penguin Random House [2]
2017 Johanna Bell, illus. Dion Beasley Go Home, Cheeky Animals! Allen & Unwin [3]
2018 Michael Gerard Bauer, illus. Chrissie Krebs Rodney Loses It! Omnibus Books [4]
2019 Alison Lester Tricky's Bad Day Affirm [5]

2020s

Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
2020 Frances Watts My Friend Fred Allen & Unwin [6]
2021 Libby Hathorn and Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, illus. Mel Pearce No! Never! Lothian [7]
2022 Andrea Rowe, illus. Hannah Sommerville Jetty Jumping Hardie Grant [8]
2023 Vikki Conley, illus. Max Hamilton Where the Lyrebird Lives Windy Hollow [9]
2024 Briony Stewart Gymnastica Fantastica! Lothian [10]
2025 Darren McCallum, illus. by Craig Smith The Wobbly Bike Walker [11]

See also

References

  1. ^ CBCA Guidelines for Publishers Archived February 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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. Archived from the original on 18 August 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Book of the Year Awards 2018". Children's Book Council of Australia. Archived from the original on 3 September 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  5. ^ "CBCA Awards 2019 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 16 August 2019. Archived from the original on 16 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  6. ^ "CBCA Book of the Year 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 16 October 2020. Archived from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  7. ^ "CBCA Book of the Year 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 21 August 2021. Archived from the original on 20 August 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  8. ^ "CBCA announces 2022 Book of the Year Awards". Books+Publishing. 19 August 2022. Archived from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  9. ^ "CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 18 August 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  10. ^ Story, Hannah (16 August 2024). "'It's never been so difficult to get a book into kids' hands': The book prize reaching young people". ABC News. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  11. ^ "CBCA Book of the Year Award winners". Books+Publishing. 15 August 2025. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
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