Children's book Council of Australia - book of the year short list

On the 17th of August the  CBCA Book of the year awards will be announced.   We have many of the titles that have been shortlisted available in the Bundoora library.   Login to LibrarySearch and place a hold on them if you wish to view, or come in an grab them off the shelves if they are available!

This years theme for the CBCA book week 18-24th of August is "Find your treasure", we hope you enjoy these titles, and can make use of them in a classroom setting.

For more information please contact June Frost for further support, ideas and resources.

Below is the list of the titles in the categories they have been listed under, and links to the library records, if you wish to view them:

Older Readers

• Archbold, C. (2017). Mallee boys. Mile End, South Australia: Wakefield Press.
• Black, C. (2017). In the dark spaces (First ed.). Richmond, Vic.: Hardie Grant Egmont.
• Crowley, Cath, author, Wood, Fiona, & Howell, Simmone. (2017). Take three girls. Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan Macmillan.
• Harry, P. (2017). Because of you. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press.
• Keil, M. (2017). The secret science of magic. Richmond, Victoria: Hardie Grant Egmont.
• Wakefield, V. (2017). Ballad for a mad girl. Melbourne, Vic.: The Text Publishing Company.

Younger Readers

• Carnavas, P. (2017). The elephant. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press.
• MacDibble, B. (2017). How to bee. Sydney: A & U Children.
• Murray, M. (2017). Henrietta and the perfect night. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin.
• Murray, M. (2017). Marsh and me. Melbourne, Victoria: The Text Publishing Company.
• Rodda, E. (2017). The shop at Hoopers Bend. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus & Robertson, an imprint of HarperCollins.
• Shanahan, Lisa, author, & Watson, Judy. (2017). The grand, genius summer of Henry Hoobler. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin.

Early Childhood

• Bauer, Michael Gerard, author, & Krebs, Chrissie. (2017). Rodney loses it! Gosford, NSW: Omnibus Books.
• Cummings, Phil, author, & Devries, Shane. (2017). Boy. Lindfield, NSW: Scholastic Press.
• Fox, Mem, author, & Ghosh, Rhonojoy. (2017). I'm Australian too. Gosford, NSW: Omnibus Books an imprint of Scholastic Australia Pty.
• Guest, Patrick, The second sky (2017)
• Lester, A. (2017). The very noisy baby. South Melbourne, Vic.: Affirm Press.
• Shanahan, Lisa, author, & Binny. (2017). Hark, it's me, Ruby Lee! Sydney, NSW: Lothian Children's Books.

Picture Book of the Year

• Anelli, L. Ten pound pom (2017)
• Blackwood, F. (2017). The great rabbit chase. Gosford, NSW: Scholastic Australia.
• Bunting, P. (2017). Mopoke. Lindfield, NSW: Scholastic Australia.
• Perkins, Gwyn, author, illustrator, & Perkins, Gwyn. (2017). A walk in the bush. South Melbourne, VIC: Affirm Press.
• Spudvilas, Anne, author, illustrator, & Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich. (2017). Swan Lake. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin.
• Walker, A. (2018). Florette. Boston: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Eve Pownall Award - Non Fiction 

• Ben-Barak, Idan, author, Frost, Julian, & Rundgren, Linnea. (2017). Do not lick this book. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin.
• Dickson, John, 1951 June author, & Emmerichs, Bern. (2017). M is for mutiny! : History by alphabet. Kew East, Victoria: Berbay Publishing.
• Hendry, L. (2017). Left & right. Clifton Hill, Vic: Wild Dog.
• Hope, C. (2017). The big book of Antarctica. Clifton Hill, VIC: Wild Dog.
• Mason, P. Amazing Australians in their flying machines. (2017).
• Saxby, Claire, author, & Vivas, Julie. (2017). Koala. Newtown, NSW: Walker Books Australia Pty.

Chrichton Award - New talent

• Winch, Gordon, , author, & Shirvington, Patrick. (2017). Can you find me? Glebe, NSW: New Frontier Publishing Pty.
• McKinnon, H. (2017). I just ate my friend. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin.
• Bunting, P. (2017). Mopoke. Lindfield, NSW: Scholastic Australia.
• Masson, Sophie, author, & Nielsen, Christopher. (2017). Once upon an ABC. Richmond, Vic: Hardie Grant Egmont.
• Wild, Margaret, author, & To, Vivienne. (2017). The sloth who came to stay. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
• Lanagan, Margo, author, & Cai, Rovina. (2017). Tintinnabula. Richmond, Victoria: Little Hare, an imprint of Hardie Grant Egmont.