Winners 2020
Congratulations to all the creators and publishers of the CBCA 2020 Book of the Year Awards
The special Awards presentation can be viewed on our YouTube channel from 12:00 AEDT Friday 16 October
Download the Winners and Honours list in PDF
Book of the Year: Older Readers
Entries in this category may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for readers in their secondary years of schooling.
Ages 13-18 years (NB: These books are for mature readers).
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This Is How We Change the Ending
Wakefield, Vikki
Text Publishing
ISBN: 9781922268136
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The Boy Who Steals Houses
Drews, C.G.
Hachette Australia
ISBN: 9781408349922
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Ghost Bird
Fuller, Lisa
University of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702260230
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Book of the Year: Younger Readers
Entries in this category may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for readers from the middle to upper primary years.
Ages 8-12 years.
Winner
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The Little Wave
Harry, Pip
University of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702260476
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The Glimme
Rodda, Emily
Illus. McBride, Marc Scholastic Australia
ISBN: 9781862919570
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The Secrets of Magnolia Moon
Wyatt, Edwina
Illus. Quinn, Katherine Walker Books Australia
ISBN: 9781760651541
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Book of the Year: Early Childhood
Entries in this category may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for children who are at pre-reading or early stages of reading.
Ages 0-7 years.
Winner
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My Friend Fred
Watts, Frances
Illus. Yi, A. Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781760290948
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When Billy Was a Dog
Murray, Kirsty
Illus. Blair, Karen Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781760631826
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Goodbye House, Hello House
Wild, Margaret
Illus. James, Ann Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781743311103
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Picture Book of the Year
Entries in this category should be 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.
Ages 0-18 years (NB. Some of these books may be for mature readers).
Note: Picture Books are listed by the illustrator, followed by the author
Winner
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I Need a Parrot
McKimmie, Chris
Ford Street Publishing
ISBN: 9781925804287
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Honours
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Nop
Magerl, Caroline
Walker Books Australia
ISBN: 9781760651251
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Three
King, Stephen Michael
Scholastic Australia
ISBN: 9781760664053
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Eve Pownall Award
Entries in this category should be books which have the prime intention of documenting factual material with consideration given to imaginative presentation, interpretation and variation of style.
Ages 0-18 years.
Winner
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Young Dark Emu: A Truer History
Pascoe, Bruce
Magabala Books
ISBN: 9781925360844
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The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals
Bayly, Sami
Hachette Australia
ISBN: 9780734419019
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Wilam: A Birrarung Story
Murphy, Aunty Joy & Kelly, Andrew
Illus. Kennedy, Lisa Walker Books Australia
ISBN: 9781925381764
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CBCA Award for New Illustrator
The CBCA Award for New Illustrator aims to recognise and encourage new talent in the field of Australian children's book illustration. Ages 0-18 years.
Winner
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Baby Business
Seymour, Jasmine
Magabala Books
ISBN: 9781925768671
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