CBCA Notables 2020
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
― Mason Cooley
Why not go on a new adventure? Get lost in books and #backyourbookshop. Take your pick from these great titles by authors, illustrators and publishers in the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Notables list for 2020.
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Book of the Year: Early Childhood
Cat and Dog - Jonathan Bentley
A Stack of Alpacas - Matt Cosgrove
Ivanhoe Swift Left Home at Six - Jane Godwin, Illus. A. Yi
I See, I See - Robert Henderson
The Book Chook - Amelia McInerney, Illus. Connah Brecon
Baz & Benz - Heidi McKinnon
Little Bird's Day - Sally Morgan, Illus. Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr
When Billy Was a Dog - Kirsty Murray, Illus. Karen Blair
You Might Find Yourself - Tai Snaith
My Friend Fred - Frances Watts, Illus. A. Yi
Picture Book of the Year
Ella and the Ocean - Jonathan Bentley, Text. Lian Tanner
Liarbird - Philip Bunting, Text. Laura Bunting
Dear Grandpa - Ronojoy Ghosh, Text. Kate Simpson
Mr Chicken All Over Australia - Leigh Hobbs
I Need a Parrot - Chris McKimmie
The Good Son: A Story from the First World War, Told in Miniature - Jules Coonan, Felicity Ober, Text. Pierre-Jacques Ober
Baby Business - Jasmine Seymour
Windcatcher: Migration of the Short-tailed Shearwater - Craig Smith Text. Diane Jackson Hil
Lottie and Walter - Anna Walker
Little Bird’s Day - Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr, Text. Sally Morgan
Hello Lighthouse - Sophie Blackall
Rodney - Kelly Canby
Mallee Sky - Tannya Harricks, Text. Jodi Toering
Nop - Caroline Magerl
Three - Stephen Michael King
Let Me Sleep, Sheep! - Leila Rudge, Text. Meg McKinlay
Queen Celine - Matt Shanks
The Gift - Michael Speechley
Tilly - Anna Walker, Text. Jane Godwin
One Tree - Bruce Whatley, Text. Christopher Cheng
EVE POWNALL AWARD
Australia's Amazing Dinosaurs - Australian Geographic
The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals - Sami Bayly
Australian Sea Life - Matt Chun
Explore Your World: Weird, Wild, Amazing! - Tim Flannery
Under the Stars: Astrophysics for Bedtime - Lisa Harvey-Smith
Illus. Mel Matthews
Now and Then - Fiona Levings
Born to Fly - Beverley McWilliams, Illus. Timothy Ide
Wilam: A Birrarung Story - Aunty Joy Murphy & Andrew Kelly, Illus. Lisa Kennedy
Young Dark Emu: A Truer History - Bruce Pascoe
Cooee Mittigar: A Story on Darug Songlines - Jasmine Seymour, Illus. Leanne Mulgo Watson
Playing with Collage - Jeannie Baker
Argh! There's a Skeleton Inside You! - Idan Ben-Barak & Julian Frost
The Ultimate Animal Counting Book - Jennifer Cossins
Searching for Cicadas - Lesley Gibbes, Illus. Judy Watson
Beauty - Sandra Kendell
Australian Backyard Earth Scientist - Peter Macinnis
A Hollow is a Home - Abbie Mitchell, Illus. Astred Hicks
Trouble in the Surf - Stephanie Owen Reeder, Illus. Briony Stewart
Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery - Tohby Riddle
Kulinmaya! Keep Listening, Everybody! - Kunmanara Williams
Book of the Year: Young Readers
A Great Escape - Felice Arena
Mr Walker and the Dessert Delight - Jess Black, Illus. Sara Acton
Pirate Boy of Sydney Town - Jackie French
How to Make a Movie in 12 Days - Fiona Hardy
Hapless Hero Henrie - Petra James, Illus. A. Yi
A Different Land - Paul Jennings, Illus. Geoff Kelly
Songbird - Ingrid Laguna
The Dog Runner - Bren MacDibble
The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Lucerne - Katrina Nannestad
Sick Bay - Nova Weetman
Detention - Tristan Bancks
The Days of in Between - Peter Valentine Fenton
As Happy as Here - Jane Godwin
The Little Wave - Pip Harry
Winston and the Wondrous Wooba Gymnastics Club - Tamsin Janu
The Thing About Oliver - Deborah Kelly
Maddie in the Middle - Julia Lawrinson
Catch a Falling Star - Meg McKinlay
The Glimme - Emily Rodda, Illus. Marc McBride
The Secrets of Magnolia Moon - Edwina Wyatt, Illus. Katherine Quinn
Book of the Year: Young Adult
The Man in the Water - David Burton
The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling - Wai Chim
The Last Balfour - Cait Duggan
Ghost Bird - Lisa Fuller
Aurora Rising - Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
Monuments - Will Kostakis
Promise Me Happy - Robert Newton
Invisible Boys - Holden Sheppard
Take the Shot - Susan White
Devil's Ballast - Meg Caddy
The Boy Who Steals Houses - C.G. Drews
How It Feels to Float - Fox, Helena
The Honeyman and the Hunter - Grant, Neil
It Sounded Better in My Head - Kenwood, Nina
All That Impossible Space - Anna Morgan
Angel Mage - Garth Nix
Four Dead Queens - Astrid Scholte
This Is How We Change the Ending - Vikki Wakefield
Impossible Music - Sean Williams