CBCA Winners

Our family is moving to a new country. We can't take all our things, so we need to make a list ... In this warm-hearted and lovingly detailed picture book,...

From the award-winning author of Nona & Me comes a stunning new novel about two teenagers separated by cultural differences, their parents' expectations and twenty kilometres of barbed-wire fence. Winner,...

Ladybirds Do Not Go to Day Care is a spirited, funny and empowering picture book to encourage even the most nervous of children to spread their wings and try something...

Author: Frane Lessac (Author/Illustrator) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 48 A factastic tour of Australian animals, by award-winning author-illustrator Frane Lessac. Australia is full of the most amazing animals on...

Author: Meg McKinlay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Extraordinary imagery and rich language spark the reader's imagination as they enter the creative world of a young girl. From award-winning...

Author: Angourie Rice Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The only thing worse than cleaning up after celebrities was having to watch her own family trying to impress them. The...

Author: Anita Heiss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Powerful and moving, Bidhi Galing (Big Rain) celebrates the Wiradyuri heroes of the Great Flood of Gundagai in 1852, told through...

Author: Carl Merrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Age range 10+ Mia could hear the squarks of her Jarriny before she saw them. Her eye's had flicked to the...

Author: Sally Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 *A CBCA 2020 Notable Book of the Year: Early Childhood* *A CBCA 2020 Notable Book of the Year: Picture Book* *Shortlisted...

Author: Sally Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 *CBCA 2022 Notable Book: Early childhood* *Longlisted for the ABIA Book Awards 2022: Small Publishers' Children's Book of the Year* Age...

Author: Aunty Fay Muir Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 *CBCA 2022 Notable Book: Early childhood* Age range 3 to 6 When we share, there is plenty for all. A...

Author: Aunty Patsy Cameron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 *CBCA 2022 Notable Book: Early childhood* Age range 0 to 9 Summer is the season for ripening wild cherries, tatas,...

Author: Matt Stanton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Two worlds collide in this conclusion to The Odds trilogy Kip, Dad and the Odds have been taken to Kip's Imaginatorium...

Author: Mark Greenwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 The second title in the OUR COUNTRY series, celebrating and contextualising the richness of Australia's history, and where it happened. In...

Author: Neridah McMullin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 The amazing true story of Jean Robertson and Kathleen Howell, who helped map Australia. In 1928, girls don't drive cars, let...

Author: Victor Steffensen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Take a walk with Uncle Kuu in The Trees, a picture book about caring for Country and respect for Indigenous knowledge....

Author: Suzanne Leal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Yearning to escape the new family he never wanted, thirteen-year-old Leo Arnold is transported to wartime Europe where he must draw...

Author: Jeannie Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 In spectacular and astonishing collage detail, Jeannie Baker captures the deep beauty, mystery, and hidden vitality of the desert landscape -...

Author: Debra Tidball Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 Despite being oceans apart, Tug and Ship are connected by strong bonds in Anchored, a tale of love and connection told...

Author: Kate Murray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Young Adults, this dynamic urban fantasy is about the youngest daughter of a...

Author: Violet Wadrill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country is a fascinating, illustrated science book that takes kids inside the life of...