Here you’ll find reviews of my favourite books that have won, were shortlisted or recognised as ‘notable’ in the CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) Book of the Year Awards. Operating since 1945, CBCA Awards recognise Australian books of outstanding literary merit across 6 categories: Older Readers, Younger Readers, Early Childhood, Picture Book of the Year, Eve Pownall (non-fiction) Award and the Award for New Illustrator.
The highly anticipated 2023 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Shortlist has just been released by the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA). As Australia’s most prestigious children’s literature award, […]
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“Dreaming with eyes open” was the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s (CBCA) 2022 Book Week theme. The 2022 theme artwork was created by Jasmine Seymour, a Dharug woman, a primary
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As an enthusiast and aficionado of Australian children’s books every year I look forward to the announcement of the notable and shortlisted books and, eventually, the winners of the annual Book of the
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The Tea and Sugar train only came once a week on a Thursday. But the special Christmas train only came once a year. Today was Sunday. Four more days without
“Tea and Sugar Christmas” Robert Ingpen paints a moving picture of outback Australia Read More »
In a time when we may all be forgiven for thinking the end of days is near, along comes Davina Bell with her young adult fiction, The End of the
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