CBCA Picture Book of the Year checklist
Every CBCA Picture Book of the Year book on our site, newest first. Print it and tick off the ones you have read.
| Read | Year | Title | By | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Once I Was a Giant | Zeno Sworder | Winner | |
| 2025 | The Truck Cat | Deborah Frenkel | Winner | |
| 2024 | Timeless | Kelly Canby | Winner | |
| 2023 | My Strange Shrinking Parents | Zeno Sworder | Winner | |
| 2022 | Iceberg | Claire Saxby | Winner | |
| 2021 | How to Make a Bird | Meg McKinlay | Winner | |
| 2020 | I Need a Parrot | Chris McKimmie | Winner | |
| 2019 | Cicada | Shaun Tan | Winner | |
| 2018 | A Walk in the Bush | Gwyn Perkins | Winner | |
| 2017 | Home in the Rain | Bob Graham | Winner | |
| 2016 | Flight | Nadia Wheatley | Winner | |
| 2015 | My Two Blankets | Irena Kobald | Winner | |
| 2014 | Rules of Summer | Shaun Tan | Winner | |
| 2013 | The Coat | Julie Hunt | Winner | |
| 2012 | A Bus Called Heaven | Bob Graham | Winner | |
| 2011 | Hamlet | Nicki Greenberg | Winner | |
| 2011 | Mirror | Jeannie Baker | Winner | |
| 2010 | The Hero of Little Street | Gregory Rogers | Winner | |
| 2009 | Collecting Colour | Kylie Dunstan | Winner | |
| 2008 | Requiem for a Beast | Matt Ottley | Winner | |
| 2007 | The Arrival | Shaun Tan | Winner | |
| 2006 | The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley | Colin Thompson | Winner | |
| 2005 | Are We There Yet? A Journey Around Australia | Alison Lester | Winner | |
| 2004 | Cat and Fish | Joan Grant | Winner | |
| 2003 | In Flanders Fields | Norman Jorgensen | Winner | |
| 2002 | An Ordinary Day | Libby Gleeson | Winner | |
| 2001 | Fox | Margaret Wild | Winner | |
| 2000 | Jenny Angel | Margaret Wild | Winner | |
| 1999 | The Rabbits | John Marsden | Winner | |
| 1998 | The Two Bullies | Junko Morimoto | Winner | |
| 1997 | Not a Nibble! | Elizabeth Honey | Winner | |
| 1996 | The Hunt | Narelle Oliver | Winner | |
| 1995 | The Watertower | Gary Crew | Winner | |
| 1994 | First Light | Gary Crew | Winner | |
| 1993 | Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten | Bob Graham | Winner | |
| 1992 | Window | Jeannie Baker | Winner | |
| 1991 | Greetings from Sandy Beach | Bob Graham | Winner | |
| 1990 | The Very Best of Friends | Margaret Wild | Winner | |
| 1989 | Drac and the Gremlin | Allan Baillie | Winner | |
| 1989 | The Eleventh Hour | Graeme Base | Winner | |
| 1988 | Crusher is Coming! | Bob Graham | Winner | |
| 1987 | Kojuro and the Bears | Helen Smith, text based on a story by Kenji Miyazawa | Winner | |
| 1986 | Felix & Alexander | Terry Denton | Winner | |
| 1984 | Bertie and the Bear | Pamela Allen | Winner | |
| 1983 | Who Sank the Boat? | Pamela Allen | Winner | |
| 1982 | Sunshine | Jan Ormerod | Winner | |
| 1980 | One Dragon's Dream | Peter Pavey | Winner | |
| 1979 | The Quinkins | Percy Trezise | Winner | |
| 1978 | John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat | Jenny Wagner | Winner | |
| 1976 | The Rainbow Serpent | Dick Roughsey | Winner | |
| 1975 | The Man from Ironbark | A. B. Paterson | Winner | |
| 1974 | The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek | Jenny Wagner | Winner | |
| 1971 | Waltzing Matilda | A. B. Paterson | Winner | |
| 1969 | Sly Old Wardrobe | Ivan Southall | Winner | |
| 1965 | Hugh's Zoo | Elisabeth MacIntyre | Winner | |
| 1956 | Wish and the Magic Nut | Peggy Barnard | Winner |
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