Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood

Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood
Awarded for	Excellence in Australian early childhood books
Country	Australia
Presented by	Children's Book Council of Australia
First awarded	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

2010s

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
2016	Anna Walker	Mr Huff	Penguin Random House
2015	Libby Gleeson, illus. Freya Blackwood	Go to Sleep, Jessie!	Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont
2014	Jan Ormerod, illus. Andrew Joyner	The Swap	Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia
2013	Emma Allen, illus. Freya Blackwood	The Terrible Suitcase	Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont
2012	Nick Bland, illus. Freya Blackwood	The Runaway Hug	Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia
2011	Jan Ormerod, illus. Freya Blackwood	Maudie and Bear	Little Hare Books
2010	Lisa Shanahan, illus. Emma Quay	Bear & Chook by the Sea	Lothian Books

2000s

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
2009	Bob Graham	How to Heal a Broken Wing	Walker Books
2008	Aaron Blabey	Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley	Viking Books
2007	Libby Gleeson, illus. Freya Blackwood	Amy and Louis	Scholastic Press
2006	Deborah Niland	Annie's Chair	Viking Books
2005	Mem Fox, illus. Judy Horacek	Where Is the Green Sheep?	Viking Books
2004	Pamela Allen	Grandpa and Thomas	Viking Books
2003	Penny Matthews, illus. Andrew McLean	A Year on Our Farm	Omnibus Books
2002	Bob Graham	Let's Get a Pup!	Walker Books
2001	Catherine Jinks, illus. Andrew McLean	You'll Wake the Baby!	Penguin Books

External links

CBCA Awards History

References

↑ CBCA Guidelines for Publishers Archived February 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.

Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood
2001-2009	You'll Wake the Baby! by Catherine Jinks (2001) Let's Get a Pup! by Bob Graham (2002) A Year on Our Farm by Penny Matthews (2003) Grandpa and Thomas by Pamela Allen (2004) Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox (2005) Annie's Chair by Deborah Niland (2006) Amy and Louis by Libby Gleeson (2007) Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley by Aaron Blabey (2008) How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham (2009)
2010-present	Bear & Chook by the Sea by Lisa Shanahan (2010) Maudie and Bear by Jan Ormerod (2011) The Runaway Hug by Nick Bland (2012)
Picture Book (1955-present) Younger Readers (1982-present) Older Readers (1946-present) Eve Pownall Award for Information Books (1988-present)

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