Winners 1946-1959 - CBCA

Book of the Year

Authors & Illustrators

For Writers & Illustrators

Award Winners 1946 to 1959

1946 Book of the Year
Winner	Rees, Leslie Illus. Walter Cunningham	The Story of Karrawingi the Emu	John Sands, [1946]

1947 Book of the Year
Winner	No Award

1948 Book of the Year
Winner	Hurley, Frank Illus. photographs	Shackleton's Argonauts: A Saga of the Antarctic Icepacks	Angus and Robertson, 1948
Highly Commended	Martin, J. H. & W. D. Illus. photographs	The Australian Book of Trains	Angus & Robertson, 1947
Highly Commended	Jackson, Ada Illus. Nina Poynton	Beetles Ahoy!	Patersons Press, [1948]
Highly Commended	Morell, Musette Illus. Edwina Bell	Bush Cobbers	Australasian Publishing Company, 1948
Highly Commended	Basser, Veronica Illus. Edwina Bell	Ponny the Penguin	Australasian Publishing Company, 1948
Highly Commended	Rees, Leslie Illus. Walter Cunningham	The Story of Shadow the Rock Wallaby	John Sands, [1948]

1949 Book of the Year
Winner	No Competition

1950 Book of the Year
Winner	Villiers, Alan J. Illus. Charles Pont	Whalers of the Midnight Sun	Angus and Robertson, 1949
Highly Commended	Collins, Dale Illus. Sheila Hawkins	Bush Holiday	William Heinemann, 1948
Highly Commended	Collins, Dale Illus.Margaret Horder	Bush Voyage	William Heinemann, 1950
Highly Commended	Birtles, Dora	Bonza the Bull	Shakespeare Head, [1949]
Highly Commended	Rees, Leslie Illus. Walter Cunningham	Bluecap and Bimbi: The Blue Wrens	Trinity House, 1948
Highly Commended	Rice, Esmée Illus. Pixie O'Harris	The Secret Family	Angus & Robertson, 1948
Highly Commended	Fletcher, Jane Ada Illus. Margaret Senior	Little Brown Piccaninnies of Tasmania	John Sands, [1950]
Highly Commended	O'Reilly, Bernard	Wild River	Cassell, 1949
Highly Commended	Rees, Leslie Illus.Margaret Senior	The Story of Kurri Kurri the Kookaburra	John Sands, 1950
Special Mention	Dawson, Dagma	Ladybird Garden	Australasian Publishing Company, 1949

1951 Book of the Year
Winner	Williams, Ruth C. Illus. Rhys Williams	Verity of Sydney Town	Angus and Robertson, 1950
Highly Commended	McNair, William Allan Illus. William R. Taplin	Starland of the South	Angus & Robertson, 1950
Commended	Handford, Nourma	Carcoola	Dymocks, 1950
Commended	Aldous, Allan	Kiewa Adventure	Oxford University Press, 1949
Commended	Graves, Richard H.	Spear and Stockwhip	Dymocks, 1950
Commended	Wilson, Erle Illus.Sally Medworth	Churinga Tales: Stories of Alchuringa - The Dreamtime of the Australian Aborigines	Australasian Publishing Company, 1950

1952 Book of the Year
Winner	Pownall, Eve Illus. Margaret Senior	The Australia Book	John Sands, [1952]
Highly Commended	Pownall, Eve Illus. Margaret Senior	Cousins-Come-Lately: Adventures in Old Sydney Town	Shakespeare Head, 1952
Highly Commended	Various Authors Illus. Margaret Horder	Blue Wren Books [Series of 10 titles]	Angus & Robertson, 1951
Commended	Handford, Nourma	Carcoola Adventure	Dymocks, 1952
Commended	Hatfield, William	Wild Dog Frontier	Oxford University Press, 1951

1953 Book of the Year
Joint Winner	Phipson, Joan Illus. Margaret Horder	Good Luck to the Rider	Angus & Robertson, 1953
Joint Winner	Martin, J. H. & W. D. [Illus. photographs]	Aircraft of Today and Tomorrow	Angus & Robertson, [1953]

1954 Book of the Year
Winner	Parker, K. Langloh Ed. Henrietta Drake-Brockman Illus. Elizabeth Durack	Australian Legendary Tales	Angus & Robertson, 1953
Highly Commended	Hill, Fitzmaurice	Southward Ho with the Hentys	Whitcombe & Tombs, [1953]
Highly Commended	Norton, Frank	Fighting Ships of Australia & New Zealand	Angus and Robertson, 1953

1955 Book of the Year
Winner	Tindale, Norman B. & Lindsay, Harold Arthur Illus. Madeleine Boyce	The First Walkabout	Longmans Green, 1954
Highly Commended	Patchett, Mary Elwyn Illus. John Rose	Wild Brother	Collins, 1954
Commended	Palmer, Helen G. & MacLeod, Jessie Illus. Harold Freeman	The First Hundred Years	Longmans Green, 1954
1955 Picture Book of the Year
Winner	No Award
Highly Commended	Clark, Peter Text Sue Lightfoot (Aged 11 Years)	Things My Family Makes	John Sands
Commended	Macintyre, Elisabeth	Mr Koala Bear	Scribner, New York
Commended	Paice, Margaret	Mirram	Angus & Robertson

1956 Book of the Year
Winner	Wrightson, Patricia Illus. Margaret Horder	The Crooked Snake	Angus & Robertson
Highly Commended	Chadwick, Doris Illus. Margaret Senior	John of the "Sirius"	Nelson
Highly Commended	Dalziel, Ken Illus. Frank Norton	Penguin Road	Angus & Robertson
Highly Commended	Stevens, Lyla Illus. Anne Lissenden	Birds of Australia	Whitcombe & Tombs
1956 Picture Book of the Year
Winner	Hawkins, Sheila Text Peggy Barnard	Wish and the Magic Nut	John Sands, [1956]

1957 Book of the Year
Winner	Moodie-Heddle, Enid (ed.) Illus. Nancy Parker	The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales	Longmans Green
Highly Commended	Clark, Mavis Thorpe Illus. Genevieve Melrose	The Brown Land was Green	Heinemann
Highly Commended	Moodie-Heddle, Enid (ed.) Illus. M.R. Dods	The Boomerang Book of Australian Poetry	Longmans Green
Highly Commended	Palmer, Helen & McLeod, Jessie Illus. Pamela Lindsay	Makers of the First Hundred Years	Longmans Green
1957 Picture Book of the Year
Winner	No Award

1958 Book of the Year
Winner	Chauncy, Nan	Tiger in the Bush	Oxford University Press)
Highly Commended	Gardener, Lyndsay Illus. Nancy Parker	Pacific Peoples	Longmans Green)
Highly Commended	Phipson, Joan Illus. Margaret Horder	It Happened One Summer	Angus & Robertson
1958 Picture Book of the Year
Winner	Poignant, Axel [Illus. photographs]	Piccaninny Walkabout	Angus and Robertson, 1957

1959 Book of the Year
Joint Winner	Chauncy, Nan Illus. Margaret Horder	Devil's Hill	Oxford University Press
Joint Winner	Gunn, John	Sea Menace	Constable
Highly Commended	Mitchell, Eleyne Illus. Ralph Thomson	The Silver Brumby	Hutchinson
Commended	Norton, Frank [Illus. by author]	Australia and New Zealand Ships of Today	Angus & Robertson
Commended	Pownall, Eve Illus. Noela Young	Exploring Australia	Methuen, 1958
Commended	Wrightson, Patricia Illus. Margaret Horder	The Bunyip Hole	Angus & Robertson
1959 Picture Book of the Year
Winner	No Award