The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) have announced their Book of the Year Awards shortlists for 2017. Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators, editors and publishers!
Here are the shortlists for each category.
Older Readers
- Waer by Meg Caddy
- Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
- The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
- Yellow by Megan Jacobson
- Frankie by Shivaun Plozza
- One Would Think the Deep by Claire Zorn
Younger Readers
- Rockhopping by Trace Balla
- Within These Walls by Robyn Bavati
- A Most Magical Girl by Karen Foxlee
- Dragonfly Song by Wendy Orr
- Mrs Whitlam by Bruce Pascoe
- Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers Third Grade by Kate and Jol Temple (illustrated by John Foye)
Early Childhood
- Go Home, Cheeky Animals! by Johanna Bell (illustrated by Dion Beasley)
- All I Want for Christmas is Rain by Cori Brooke (illustrated by Megan Forward)
- The Snow Wombat by Susannah Chambers (illustrated by Mark Jackson)
- Nannie Loves by Kylie Dunstan
- Chip by Kylie Howarth
- Gary by Leila Rudge
Picture Book of the Year
- One Photo by Ross Watkins (illustrated by Liz Anelli)
- Mechanica by Lance Balchin
- Home in the Rain by Bob Graham
- My Brother by Dee, Oliver and Tiffany Huxley
- The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke (illustrated by Van T Rudd)
- Out by Angela May George (illustrated by Owen Swan)
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
- Spellbound: Making Pictures with the A-B-C by Maree Coote
- A – Z of Endangered Animals by Jennifer Cossins
- The Gigantic Book of Genes by Lorna Hendry
- Fabish, The Horse that Braved a Bushfire by Neridah McMullin (illustrated by Andrew McLean)
- Amazing Animals of Australia’s National Parks by Gina M Newton
- William Bligh: a stormy story of tempestuous times by Michael Sedunary (illustrated by Bern Emmerichs)
Crichton Award for New Illustrators
- A Patch from Scratch by Megan Forward
- Mechanica by Lance Balchin
- ‘Melbourne’ Word by Word by Michael McMahon
- Small Things by Mel Tregonning
- The Patchwork Bike by Van T Rudd (illustrator) and Maxine Beneba Clarke (text)
- Welcome to Country by Lisa Kennedy (illustrator) and Auntie Joy Murphy (text)
