CBCA Winners and Honour Books

Book of the Year: Older Readers

The Ink Bridge by Neil Grant
The Dead I Know by Scot Gardner
Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan
Lenny's Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee
Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
A Small Free Kiss in the Dark by Glenda Millard
Tiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim
The Cleo Stories 1: The Necklace and the Present by Libby Gleeson, illustrated by Freya Blackwood

Book of the Year: Younger Readers

Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers Third Grade by Kate Temple and Jol Temple, illustrated by Jon Foye
Dragonfly Song by Wendy Orr
Crow Country by Kate Constable
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Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee
Runt by Craig Silvey
Rockhopping by Trace Balla
The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst by Jaclyn Moriarty

Picture Book of the Year

Iceberg by Claire Saxby, illustrated by Jess Racklyeft
The Dream of the Thylacine by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks
One Minute's Silence by David Metzenthen, illustrated by Michael Camilleri
The Mediterranean by Armin Greder
Goodbye House, Hello House by Margaret Wild, illustrated by Ann James

Book of the Year: Early Childhood

Go Home, Cheeky Animals! by Johanna Bell, illustrated by Dion Beasley
Look See, Look at Me by Leonie Norrington and Dee Huxley
Here Comes Stinkbug! by Tohby Riddle
Noni the Pony Goes to the Beach by Alison Lester
My Friend Fred by Frances Watts, illustrated by A. Yi
When Billy Was a Dog by Kirsty Murray, illustrated by Karen Blair
The Tall Man and the Twelve Babies by Tom Niland Champion and Kilmeny Niland, illustrated by Deborah Niland

Eve Pownall Award

The Little Refugee by Anh Do and Suzanne Do, illustrated by Bruce Whatley
Do not lick this book by Idan Ben-Barak, illustrated by Julian Frost
Welcome to My Country by Laklak Burarrwanga, Dr Sarah Wright, Dr Sandie Suchet-Pearson and Dr Kate Lloyd
Maralinga, the Anangu Story by Yalata, Oak Valley Communities with Christobel Mattingley

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