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).
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."CBCA Guidelines for Publishers
Award winners
1950s YearAuthorIllustratorBookPublisherRef. 1955 No award 1956 Wish and the Magic Nut John Sands 1957 No award 1958 photographs Piccaninny Walkabout Angus & Robertson 1959 No award
1960s YearAuthorIllustratorBookPublisherRef. 1960 No award 1961 No award 1962 No award 1963 No award 1964 No award 1965 Hugh's Zoo Constable Young Books 1966 No award 1968 No award 1969 Sly Old Wardrobe Cheshire
1970s YearAuthorIllustratorBookPublisherRef. 1970 No award 1971 Waltzing Matilda Collins 1974 Longman Young 1975 Collins 1976 Collins 1978 John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat Viking Kestrel 1979 Collins
1980s YearAuthorIllustratorBookPublisherRef. 1980 One Dragon's Dream Nelson Australia 1981 No award 1982 Jan Ormerod Jan Ormerod Sunshine Penguin Books 1983 Who Sank the Boat? Nelson Australia 1984 Bertie and the Bear Nelson Australia 1985 Not awarded 1986 Felix & Alexander Oxford University Press 1987 , text based on a story by Kenji Miyazawa Kojuro and the Bears Collins 1988 Crusher is Coming! Lothian 1989 Viking Books Drac and the Gremlin Viking Kestrel
1990s YearAuthorIllustratorBookPublisherRef. 1990 Margaret Hamilton 1991 Greetings from Sandy Beach Lothian 1992 Window Julia MacRae 1993 Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten Penguin Books 1994 First Light Lothian 1995 Keystone, Era 1996 Lothian 1997 Not a Nibble! Little Ark 1998 , translated by Isao Morimoto Random House 1999 Lothian
2000s YearAuthorIllustratorBookPublisherRef. 2000 Jenny Angel Viking Books 2001 Fox Allen and Unwin 2002 Scholastic Press 2003 In Flanders Fields Fremantle Arts Centre Press 2004 Cat and Fish Lothian 2005 Are We There Yet? A Journey Around Australia Viking Books 2006 Lothian 2007 Lothian 2008 Requiem for a Beast Lothian 2009 Collecting Colour Lothian
2010s YearAuthorIllustratorBookPublisherRef. 2010 Allen & Unwin 2011 Mirror Walker Books 2011 Hamlet Allen & Unwin 2012 Walker Books 2013 Allen & Unwin 2014 Rules of Summer Hachette Australia 2015 My Two Blankets Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont2016FlightWindy Hollow Books2017Home in the RainWalker Books2018Affirm Press2019CicadaLothian
2020s YearAuthorIllustratorBookPublisherRef.2020I Need a ParrotFord Street2021How to Make a BirdWalker Books2022IcebergAllen & Unwin2023My Strange Shrinking ParentsThames & Hudson2024TimelessFremantle Press2025The Truck CatBright Light2026Once I Was a GiantThames & Hudson
See also
List of CBCA Awards List of Australian literary awards
References
External links CBCA Awards History