Dreaming with Eyes Open - Book Week

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CBCA Book Week 2022

With an enthralling theme, Dreaming with Eyes Open, this week marks CBCA Book Week 2022! We are celebrating all things bookish for children and young people. We celebrate the beautiful artwork of author, illustrator and educator, Jasmine Seymour who illustrated this year’s poster.

LOST IN BOOKS congratulates all the winners, commended and shortlisted artists this year. It was a mighty list with excellent representation from independent publishing houses too - Twelve Panels Press, Fremantle Press and Dirt Lane Press.

Congratulations!

You can find our collection of CBCA Notables for sale here.
A special shout out to authors and illustrators who collaborate with us and who were amongst the winners and shortlisted artists:

  • Safdar Ahmed, Still Alive, Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System
    (Winner, Eve Pownall Award)

    LOST IN BOOKS proudly sells Safdar’s graphic novel, a labour of love and talent, and compassion. Safdar also took out this year’s Premier’s Literary Awards Book of the year.
    LOST IN BOOKS can source its French translation, Nous sommes encore en vie. Let us know if you would like to buy a copy here.

  • Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter
    (Winner, Book of the Year, Older Readers)

  • Freda Chiu, A Trip to the Hospital
    (Shortlisted, CBCA Award for New Illustrators)

    Both Rebecca and Freda collaborate with Think+DO Tank and our partners, Scribble on the MIRROR Mentorship program designed to incubate and further the careers of historically underrepresented Australian literary artists to make more diverse Australian children’s literature.

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  • our fellow Western Sydney creative, Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys’ Cars (Honours, Book of the Year, Older Readers)

    You can watch the CBCA announcements and interviews with the artists here.

    Congratulations CBCA for another year’s great work!

Diversity and Multilingualism in Australian KidsLit

Think+DO Tank, through our LOST IN BOOKS project and MIRROR Mentorship Program, continues to advocate for more diverse and multilingual Australian KidsLit to mirror the cultures and languages that make up contemporary Australia - first and foremost, First Nations languages and cultures; and the languages and cultures of migrants and refugees. Across Australia, more than 27% of us are born elsewhere. And more than 22.3% of us use languages other than English in our everyday lives. Should we not also be able to read and write in those languages? Our increasing linguistic diversity is one of our hugest assets but is still an unrealised gift in both our literary and educational spheres.

To support an Australian that reaps the benefits of multilingualism, you can shop with us and support us by donating your hard-earned cash and/or your time and talents.

Our heartfelt congratulations to all the artists and their publishers and the hard-working CBCA!