Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood explained

Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood
Awarded For:	Excellence in Australian early childhood books
Presenter:	Children's Book Council of Australia
Country:	Australia
Year:	2001
Website:	http://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	, illus. Andrew McLean	You'll Wake the Baby!	Penguin Books
2002		Let's Get a Pup!	Walker Books
2003	, illus. Andrew McLean	A Year on Our Farm	Omnibus Books
2004		Grandpa and Thomas	Viking Books
2005	, illus. Judy Horacek	Where Is the Green Sheep?	Viking Books
2006		Annie's Chair	Viking Books
2007	, illus. Freya Blackwood	Amy and Louis	Scholastic Press
2008		Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley	Viking Books
2009		How to Heal a Broken Wing	Walker Books

2010s

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

2020s

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref.
2020		My Friend Fred	Allen & Unwin	^[6]
2021	and Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, illus. Mel Pearce	No! Never		Lothian	^[7]
2022	, illus. Hannah Sommerville	Jetty Jumping	Hardie Grant	^[8]
2023	, illus. Max Hamilton	Where the Lyrebird Lives	Windy Hollow	^[9]
2024	Briony Stewart	Gymnastica Fantastica!	Lothian	^[10]

External links

CBCA Awards History

Notes and References

http://cbca.org.au/docs/publisher%20guidelines.pdf CBCA Guidelines for Publishers
Web site: Paek . Jooae . Subject guides: Early Childhood Education: Children's Book Council of Australia . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170819092809/http://libguides.acu.edu.au/c.php?g=233942&p=1553246 . 19 August 2017 . 2017-08-18 . libguides.acu.edu.au . en.
News: Convery . Stephanie . Harmon . Steph . 2017-08-17 . Claire Zorn's grief-and-surfing story wins children's book of the year award . en-GB . . live . 2017-08-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170818082644/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/18/claire-zorns-grief-and-surfing-story-wins-childrens-book-of-the-year-award . 18 August 2017 . 0261-3077.
Web site: Book of the Year Awards 2018 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180903135412/https://cbca.org.au/winners-2018 . 3 September 2018 . 2018-08-28 . . en-AU.
Web site: 2019-08-16 . CBCA Awards 2019 winners announced . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190816183834/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/08/16/137855/cbca-awards-2019-winners-announced/ . 16 August 2019 . 2019-08-16 . . en-AU.
Web site: 2020-10-16 . CBCA Book of the Year 2020 winners announced . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201017014533/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/10/16/158101/cbca-book-of-the-year-2020-winners-announced/ . 17 October 2020 . 2020-10-16 . . en-AU.
Web site: 2021-08-21 . CBCA Book of the Year 2021 winners announced . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210820025648/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/08/20/191847/cbca-book-of-the-year-2021-winners-announced/ . 20 August 2021 . 2021-08-20 . . en-AU.
Web site: 2022-08-19 . CBCA announces 2022 Book of the Year Awards . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220819021253/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/08/19/219322/cbca-announces-2022-book-of-the-year-awards/ . 19 August 2022 . 2022-08-19 . . en-AU.
Web site: 2023-08-18 . CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced . 2023-08-19 . Books+Publishing.
News: Story . Hannah . 2024-08-16 . 'It's never been so difficult to get a book into kids' hands': The book prize reaching young people . 2024-08-16 . ABC News . en-AU.