All Awards/Children's Book Council of Australia Award

Award

Children's Book Council of Australia Award

78 years tracked (1946–2025), 292 entries total.

2025

Always Was, Always Will Be

Aunty Fay Muir and Sue Lawson

Grow Big, Little Seed

I'm Not Really Here

Gary Lonesborough

Laughter Is the Best Ending

Deborah Frenkel

The Wobbly Bike

Darren McCallum

2024

Isolde Martyn and Robyn Ridgeway, illust. Louise Hogan

Gymnastica Fantastica!

Hope is the Thing

2023

DEEP: Delve into hidden worlds

My Strange Shrinking Parents

Sally Soweol Han

Where the Lyrebird Lives

2022

A Glasshouse of Stars

Still Alive: Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System

The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name

Michelle Pereira

2021

Aster's Good, Right Things

Dry to Dry: The Seasons of Kakadu

Pamela Freeman, illus. Liz Anelli

How to Make a Bird

Libby Hathorn and Lisa Hathorn-Jarman

The End of the World Is Bigger than Love

This Small Blue Dot

2020

Jasmine Seymour

I Need a Parrot

The Little Wave

This Is How We Change the Ending

Vikki Wakefield

Young Dark Emu: A truer history

2019

Daniel Gray-Barnett

His Name Was Walter

Coral Vass, illus. Dub Leffler

Tricky's Bad Day

2018

A Walk in the Bush

Do Not Lick This Book

Idan Ben-Barak, illus. Julian Frost

Rodney Loses It!

Michael Gerard Bauer

Take Three Girls

2017

Amazing Animals of Australia's National Parks

Go Home, Cheeky Animals!

Home in the Rain

One Would Think the Deep

The Patchwork Bike

Words in Deep Blue

Cath Crowley · Older Readers

2016

Lennie The Legend: Solo to Sydney by Pony

Stephanie Owen Reeder

Morris Gleitzman

The Underwater Fancy Dress Parade

Allison Colpoys

2015

A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land

Go to Sleep, Jessie!

My Two Blankets

One Minute's Silence

Michael Camilleri

The Cleo Stories : The Necklace and the Present

Withering-By-Sea

Rossell Judith · Younger Readers

2014

Big Red Kangaroo

City of Orphans: A Very Unusual Pursuit

Catherine Jinks

Christopher Faille, illus. Danny Snell

Rules of Summer

Fairytales for Wilde Girls

Allyse Near · Older Readers

Life in Outer Space

Melissa Keil · Older Readers

The Sky So Heavy

Claire Zorn · Older Readers

2013

Margo Lanagan · Older Readers

The Children of the King

The Terrible Suitcase

Tom the Outback Mailman

Kristin Weidenbach, illus. Timothy Ide

2012

A Bus Called Heaven

One Small Island: The Story of Macquarie Island

Alison Lester and Coral Tulloch

The Dead I Know

The Runaway Hug

2011

Nicki Greenberg

Maudie and Bear

The Flying Orchestra

The Midnight Zoo

Isobelle Carmody

The Return of the Word Spy

Ursula Dubosarsky, illus. Tohby Riddle

Cath Crowley · Older Readers Book of the Year

Six Impossible Things

Fiona Wood · Older Readers Book of the Year

The Piper's Son

Melina Marchetta · Older Readers Book of the Year

2010

Australian Backyard Explorer

Bear & Chook by the Sea

Darius Bell and the Glitter Pool

David Metzenthen

Little Big Tree

The Hero of Little Street

The Terrible Plop

2009

Alive in the Death Zone

Collecting Colour

How to Heal a Broken Wing

Mending Lucille

Perry Angel's Suitcase

Tales from Outer Suburbia

Shaun Tan · Older Readers Book of the Year

Finnikin of the Rock

Melina Marchetta · Book of the Year - Older Readers

Morris Gleitzman · Younger Readers Book of the Year

2008

Carole Wilkinson

Parsley Rabbit's Book about Books

Frances Watts, illus. David Legge

Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley

Requiem for a Beast

Santa’s Aussie Holiday

The Ghost's Child

Sonya Hartnett · Older Readers - Book of the Year

2007

Catherine Bateson

Margo Lanagan · Book of the Year: Older Readers

Shaun Tan · Picture Book of the Year

The Penguin Book: Birds in Suits

When elephants lived in the sea

2006

Elizabeth Fensham

Scarecrow Army: The ANZACS at Gallipoli

The Mystery of Eilean Mor

The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley

The Story of Tom Brennan

2005

Are We There Yet? A Journey Around Australia

Michael Gerard Bauer

The Silver Donkey

Sonya Hartnett · Book of the Year: Younger Readers

To the Moon and Back: The Amazing Australians at the Forefront of Space Travel Plus Fantastic Moon Facts

Jackie French with Bryan Sullivan, illus. Gus Gordon

Where Is the Green Sheep?

2004

Animal Architects

Carole Wilkinson · Book of the Year: Younger Readers

Grandpa and Thomas

Saving Francesca

Melina Marchetta · Book of the Year for Older Readers

Freya Blackwood

2003

A Year on Our Farm

I Am the Messenger

Markus Zusak · Book of the Year: Older Readers

In Flanders Fields

Norman Jorgensen

Iron in the Blood: Convicts and Commandants in Colonial Australia

Rain May and Captain Daniel

Catherine Bateson

The Dugong Meadow

2002

An Ordinary Day

Let's Get a Pup!

Papunya School Book of Country and History

Papunya School Publishing Committee

When Mum was Little

Shaun Tan · Picture Book of the Year - Honour Book

2001

Grandma's Shoes

Caroline Magerl

Olympia: Warrior Athletes of Ancient Greece

Dyan Blacklock, illus. David Kennett

Two Hands Together

Wolf on the Fold

You'll Wake the Baby!

Catherine Jinks

Shaun Tan · Picture Book of the Year - Honour Book

2000

48 Shades of Brown

Baby Bear goes to the Zoo

Lorette Broekstra

Fishing for Islands: Traditional Boats and Seafarers of the Pacific

Hitler's Daughter

Jackie French · Book of the Year: Younger Readers

1999

Meme McDonald and Boori Pryor

John Marsden · Picture Book of the Year

1998

A Home Among the Gum Trees: The Story of Australian Houses

Catherine Jinks

I'm in the Sky and I Can't Come Back

Someone Like Me

Elaine Forrestal

The Two Bullies

1997

A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove

Fang Fang's Chinese New Year

Hannah Plus One

Killer Plants and How to Grow Them

Gordon Cheers and Julie Silk, illus. Marjorie Crosby-Fairall

Elizabeth Honey

1996

Catherine Jinks

The First Fleet: A New Beginning in an Old Land

1995

Ark in the Park

Gillian Rubinstein

I Wish I'd Gone to the Moon with Neil Armstrong

New Faces: The Complete Book of Alternative Pets

Robert E. Stewart

Power and Glory

1994

Is it True Grandfather?

Emily Rodda · Book of the Year: Younger Readers

Isobelle Carmody

V for Vanishing: An Alphabet of Endangered Animals

Patricia Mullins

1993

Alitiji in Dreamland

Looking for Alibrandi

Melina Marchetta · Book of the Year: Older Readers

Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten

The Bamboo Flute

Tjarany Roughtail: The Dreaming of the Roughtail Lizard and Other Stories told by the Kukatja

Gracie Greene and Joe Tramacchi, illus. Lucille Gill

1992

The House Guest

Eleanor Nilsson

The Magnificent Nose & Other Marvels

The Magnificent Nose and Other Marvels

1991

Bip, the Snapping Bungaroo

Finders Keepers

Greetings from Sandy Beach

Strange Objects

1990

Came Back to Show You I Could Fly

The Very Best of Friends

1989

Australian Dinosaurs

Beyond The Labyrinth

Gillian Rubinstein

Drac and the Gremlin

The Best-Kept Secret

The Eleventh Hour

Graeme Base · Picture Book of the Year - Joint Winner

1988

Crusher is Coming!

Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins

So Much to Tell You

The Pheasant and the Kingfisher

1987

Kojuro and the Bears

Graeme Base · Picture Books

1986

Felix & Alexander

1985

Something Special

The True Story of Lilli Stubeck

1984

Patricia Wrightson

Bernice Knows Best

Bertie and the Bear

Mem Fox · Picture Book of the Year - Highly Commended

1983

Master of the Grove

Victor Kelleher

Who Sank the Boat?

1982

Christobel Mattingley

The Valley Between

1981

Playing Beatie Bow

Ruth Park · Book of the Year

1980

Displaced Person

One Dragon's Dream

1979

The Plum-Rain Scroll

1978

John Brown, Rose And The Midnight Cat

Jenny Wagner · Picture Book of the Year

The Ice is Coming

Patricia Wrightson

1977

The October Child

1976

The Rainbow Serpent

1975

The Man from Ironbark

1974

The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek

The Nargun and the Stars

Patricia Wrightson

1973

Family at the Lookout

1972

Longtime Passing

H. F. Brinsmead

1971

Bread and Honey

Waltzing Matilda

1970

Annette Macarthur-Onslow

1969

Sly Old Wardrobe

When Jays Fly to Barbmo

Margaret Balderson

1968

To the Wild Sky

1967

Mavis Thorpe Clark

1966

Ivan Southall · Book of the Year

1965

Elisabeth MacIntyre

Pastures of the Blue Crane

H. F. Brinsmead

1964

The Green Laurel

1963

The Family Conspiracy

1962

Rafferty Rides a Winner

The Racketty Street Gang

1961

1960

All the Proud Tribesmen

1959

1958

Piccaninny Walkabout

Tiger in the Bush

1957

The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales

Enid Moodie Heddle

1956

The Crooked Snake

Patricia Wrightson

Wish and the Magic Nut

1955

The First Walkabout

Norman B. Tindale

1954

Australian Legendary Tales

K. Langloh Parker

1953

Aircraft of Today and Tomorrow

James H. Martin

Good Luck to the Rider

1952

The Australia Book

1951

Verity of Sydney Town

Ruth C. Williams

1950

Whalers of the Midnight Sun

Alan J. Villiers

1948

Shackleton's Argonauts: A Saga of the Antarctic Icepacks

1946

The Story of Karrawingi the Emu