Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book

Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book
Awarded for	Excellence in Australian picture books
Country	Australia
Presented by	Children's Book Council of 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 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."^[1]

Award winners

Year	Author	Illustrator	Book	Publisher
1956[2]	Peggy Barnard	Sheila Hawkins	Wish and the Magic Nut	John Sands
1957[3]	No award
1958[4]	Axel Poignant	photographs	Piccaninny Walkabout	Angus & Robertson
1959[5]	No award
1960[6]	No award
1961[7]	No award
1962[8]	No award
1963[9]	No award
1964[10]	No award
1965[11]	Elizabeth MacIntyre		Hugh's Zoo	Constable Young Books
1966[12]	No award
1968[13]	No award
1969[14]	Ivan Southall	Ted Greenwood	Sly Old Wardrobe	Cheshire
1970[15]	No award
1971[16]	A. B. Paterson	Desmond Digby	Waltzing Matilda	Collins
1974[17]	Jenny Wagner	Ron Brooks	The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek	Longman Young
1975[18]	A. B. Paterson	Quentin Hole	The Man from Ironbark	Collins
1976[19]	Dick Roughsey	Dick Roughsey	The Rainbow Serpent	Collins
1978	Jenny Wagner	Ron Brooks	John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat	Viking Kestrel
1979	Percy Trezise	Dick Roughsey	The Quinkins	Collins
1980	Peter Pavey		One Dragon's Dream	Nelson Australia
1982	Christobel Mattingley	Patricia Mullins	Rummage	Angus & Robertson
1983	Pamela Allen	Pamela Allen	Who Sank the Boat?	Nelson Australia
1984	Pamela Allen	Pamela Allen	Bertie and the Bear	Nelson Australia
1986	Terry Denton	Terry Denton	Felix & Alexander	Oxford University Press
1987	Helen Smith, text based on a story by Kenji Miyazawa	Junko Morimoto	Kojuro and the Bears	Collins
1988	Bob Graham	Bob Graham	Crusher is Coming!	Lothian
1989	Graeme Base (joint winner)	Graeme Base	The Eleventh Hour	Viking Books
1989	Allan Baillie (joint winner)	Jane Tanner	Drac and the Gremlin	Viking Books
1990	Margaret Wild	Julie Vivas	The Very Best of Friends	Margaret Hamilton
1991	Bob Graham	Bob Graham	Greetings from Sandy Beach	Lothian
1992	Jeannie Baker		Window	Julia MacRae
1993	Bob Graham	Bob Graham	Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten	Penguin Books
1994	Gary Crew	Peter Gouldthorpe	First Light	Lothian
1995	Gary Crew	Stephen Woolman	The Watertower	Keystone, Era
1996	Narelle Oliver		The Hunt	Lothian
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 Rabbits	Lothian
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 Grant	Neil Curtis	Cat and Fish	Lothian
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 Riley	Lothian
2007	Shaun Tan	Shaun Tan	The Arrival	Lothian
2008	Matt Ottley		Requiem for a Beast	Lothian
2009	Kylie Dunstan		Collecting Colour	Lothian
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 Kobold	Freya Blackwood	My Two Blankets	Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont
2016[20]	Nadia Wheatley	Armin Greder	Flight	Windy Hollow Books

See also

• List of CBCA Awards
• List of Australian literary awards

References

1. CBCA Guidelines for Publishers Archived February 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
2. Austlit - Wish and the Magic Nut by Peggy Barnard
3. Austlit - Picture Book of the Year
4. "Colourful Display for Children's Book Week", The Canberra Times, 8 July 1958, p4
5. Austlit - Picture Book of the Year
6. Austlit - Picture Book of the Year
7. Austlit - Picture Book of the Year
8. Austlit - Picture Book of the Year
9. Austlit - Picture Book of the Year
10. Austlit - Picture Book of the Year
11. "Children's Book Awards", The Canberra Times, 3 July 1965, p14
12. "The award winners", The Canberra Times, 9 July 1966, p12
13. "Children's Book Week - Prizewinners", The Canberra Times, 6 July 1968, p13
14. "Book Council Award Winners", The Canberra Times, 12 July 1969, p16
15. "Judges' Awards", The Canberra Times, 11 July 1970, p16
16. "1971 Awards", The Canberra Times, 10 July 1971, p15
17. "Judges' Report", The Canberra Times, 6 July 1974, p11
18. "No major award for children's books", The Canberra Times, 26 April 1975, p11
19. "1976 children's book awards announced", The Canberra Times, 10 July 1976, p3
20. Children's Book Council of Australia (19 August 2016). "Book of the Year - Winners 2016". Children's Book Council of Australia. Children's Book Council of Australia. Retrieved 23 August 2016.

External links

• CBCA Awards History