Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book

The Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book has been presented annually since 1955 by the Children's Book Council of Australia

Children's Book Council of Australia

The Children's Book Council of Australia is a not for profit organisation which aims to engage the community with literature for young Australians. The CBCA presents annual awards for books of literary merit, for outstanding contribution to Australian children's literature.-Awards:The first...

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The Award "will be made to outstanding books of the Picture Book genre in which the author and illustrator achieve artistic and literary unity, or, in wordless picture books, where the story, theme or concept is unified through illustrations."

Award winners

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
2009 2009 in Australian literature The year 2009 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2009 in literature.See also:2008 in Australian literature,2009 in Australia,...	Kylie Dunstan	Collecting Colour	Lothian
2008 2008 in Australian literature The year 2008 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2008 in literature.See also:2007 in Australian literature,2008 in Australia,...	Matt Ottley	Requiem for a Beast	Lothian
2007 2007 in Australian literature The year 2007 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2007 in literature.See also:2006 in Australian literature,2007 in Australia,...	Shaun Tan Shaun Tan Shaun Tan is the illustrator and author of award-winning children's books such as The Red Tree, The Lost Thing and The Arrival...	The Arrival	Lothian
2006 2006 in Australian literature The year 2006 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2006 in literature.See also:2005 in Australian literature,2006 in Australia,...	Colin Thompson	The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley	Lothian
2005 2005 in Australian literature The year 2005 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2005 in literature.See also:2004 in Australian literature,2005 in Australia,...	Alison Lester	Are We There Yet? A Journey Around Australia	Viking Books
2004 2004 in literature The year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation....	Joan Grant, illus. Neil Curtis	Cat and Fish	Lothian
2003 2003 in literature The year 2003 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Peter Ackroyd - The Clerkenwell TalesAtsuko Asano - No...	Norman Jorgensen, illus. Brian Harrison-Lever	In Flanders Fields	Fremantle Arts Centre Press Fremantle Arts Centre Press Fremantle Press is an independent publisher in Western Australia. Fremantle Press was established by the Fremantle Arts Centre in 1976...
2002 2002 in literature The year 2002 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the state's Islamic...	Libby Gleeson, illus. Armin Greder	An Ordinary Day	Scholastic Press Scholastic Press Scholastic is a global book publishing company known for publishing educational materials for schools, teachers, and parents, and selling and distributing them by mail order and via book clubs and book fairs. It also has the exclusive United States' publishing rights to the Harry Potter book...
2001 2001 in literature The year 2001 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The film version of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic book, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, is released to movie theaters...	Margaret Wild Margaret Wild Margaret Wild is an Australian author. She was born in 1948 in Eschew, a small town in South Africa, and came to Australia in 1972. She now lives in Sydney. Before becoming a fulltime writer, Margaret was a journalist for newspapers and magazines and then she worked for sixteen years as a book... , illus. Ron Brooks	Fox	Allen and Unwin
2000 2000 in literature The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 13 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published...	Margaret Wild Margaret Wild Margaret Wild is an Australian author. She was born in 1948 in Eschew, a small town in South Africa, and came to Australia in 1972. She now lives in Sydney. Before becoming a fulltime writer, Margaret was a journalist for newspapers and magazines and then she worked for sixteen years as a book... , illus. Anne Spudvilas	Jenny Angel	Viking Books
1999 1999 in literature The year 1999 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*June 19 - Stephen King is hit by a Dodge van while taking a walk. He spends the next three weeks hospitalized...	John Marsden John Marsden (writer) John Marsden is an Australian writer, teacher and school principal. Marsden has had his books translated into nine languages including Swedish, Norwegian, French, German, Dutch, Danish, Italian and Spanish.... , illus. Shaun Tan Shaun Tan Shaun Tan is the illustrator and author of award-winning children's books such as The Red Tree, The Lost Thing and The Arrival...	The Rabbits	Lothian
1998 1998 in literature The year 1998 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 5 - Tennessee Williams' 1938 play, Not About Nightingales, receives its stage première....	Junko Morimoto, translated by Isao Morimoto	The Two Bullies	Random House Random House Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
1997 1997 in literature The year 1997 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tom Clancy signs a book deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. , giving him US$50 million for the world-English rights to two new books . A second agreement gives him another US$25 million for a...	Elizabeth Honey	Not a Nibble!	Little Ark Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent book publisher and distributor based in Australia. The Australian directors have been the sole owners of the Allen & Unwin name since effecting a management buy out at the time the UK parent company, Unwin Hyman, was...
1996 1996 in literature The year 1996 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is removed from an advanced placement English reading list in Lindale, Texas because it "conflicted with the values of the community." In the United Kingdom, the first...	Narelle Oliver	The Hunt	Lothian
1995 1995 in literature The year 1995 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea is opened by Jimmy Carter....	Gary Crew Gary Crew -Life:Gary Crew was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 23 September 1947. An illness during childhood kept him home from school but enabled him to develop an interest in reading adventure stories.... , illus. Stephen Woolman	The Watertower	Keystone, Era
1994 1994 in literature The year 1994 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Kevin J. Anderson - Champions of the Force, Dark Apprentice and Jedi SearchReed Arvin - The Wind in the Wheat*Greg Bear - Songs of Earth and Power...	Gary Crew Gary Crew -Life:Gary Crew was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 23 September 1947. An illness during childhood kept him home from school but enabled him to develop an interest in reading adventure stories.... , illus. Peter Gouldthorpe	First Light	Lothian
1993 1993 in literature The year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times....	Bob Graham	Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten	Penguin Books Penguin Books Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
1992 1992 in literature The year 1992 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Ben Aaronovitch - TransitJulia Álvarez - How the García Girls Lost Their AccentsPaul Auster - LeviathanIain Banks - The Crow Road...	Jeannie Baker	Window	Julia MacRae
1991 1991 in literature The year 1991 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Douglas Coupland publishes the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation....	Bob Graham	Greetings From Sandy Beach	Lothian
1990 1990 in literature The year 1990 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*J. K. Rowling gets the idea for Harry Potter while on a train ride from Manchester to London. She says "I was staring out the window, and the idea for Harry just came. He appeared in my mind's eye, very fully formed...	Margaret Wild Margaret Wild Margaret Wild is an Australian author. She was born in 1948 in Eschew, a small town in South Africa, and came to Australia in 1972. She now lives in Sydney. Before becoming a fulltime writer, Margaret was a journalist for newspapers and magazines and then she worked for sixteen years as a book... , illus. Julie Vivas	The Very Best of Friends	Margaret Hamilton
1989 1989 in literature The year 1989 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.-Literature:...	Allan Baillie Allan Baillie Allan Baillie is an Australian writer. He was born in Scotland, but moved with his family to Australia when he was seven. He began work as a journalist working on papers such as the Melbourne Sun, Telegraph and the Australian Women's Weekly having studied journalism at Melbourne University... , illus. Jane Tanner Jane Tanner Barbara Jane Tanner, known as Jane Tanner, is an Australian children's book illustrator.Majoring in painting and printmaking at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, she worked as a traditional artist for many years...	Drac and the Gremlin	Viking Books
	Graeme Base Graeme Base Graeme Rowland Base is an Australian author and artist of picture books. He is perhaps best known for his second book, Animalia published in 1986, and third book The Eleventh Hour which was released in 1989....	The Eleventh Hour	Viking Books
1988 1988 in literature The year 1988 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Margaret Atwood - Cat's EyeJ.G. Ballard - Memories of the Space Age*Iain M...	Bob Graham	Crusher is Coming!	Lothian
1987 1987 in literature The year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tom Wolfe was paid $5 million for the film rights to his novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the most ever earned by an author, at the time.-Fiction:...	Helen Smith Helen Smith (writer) Helen Smith is an English novelist and dramatist. She's a member of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, English PEN and the Society of Authors, and a founder member of the writer-led Agent 160 theatre company. She lives in Brixton, London.- Biography :... , illus. Junko Morimoto, text based on a story by Kenji Miyazawa	Kojuro and the Bears	Collins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
1986 1986 in literature The year 1986 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:Michael Grade. Controller of BBC One, axes plans to televise Ian Curteis's The Falklands Play.-New books:Kingsley Amis - The Old Devils...	Terry Denton Terry Denton Terry Denton is an Australian illustrator and author. The second youngest of five boys, he was born and grew up in Melbourne, Victoria....	Felix & Alexander	Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
1985 1985 in literature The year 1985 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Isaac Asimov - Robots and EmpireMargaret Atwood - The Handmaid's TaleJean M. Auel - The Mammoth HuntersIain Banks - Walking on Glass...	No award
1984 1984 in literature The year 1984 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The book Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is widely read....	Pamela Allen Pamela Allen Pamela Allen, born in April 1934, in Devonport, New Zealand is a children's writer and illustrator. She has published over 30 picture books since 1980, when she moved to Australia. Eight of her books have been adapted for the stage by The Patch Theatre Company and performed at the Sydney Opera House...	Bertie and the Bear	Nelson Australia
1983 1983 in literature The year 1983 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:Ironweed by William Kennedy is published.Salvage for the Saint by Peter Bloxsom and John Kruse is published. This is the final book in a series of novels, novellas and short stories featuring the Leslie Charteris...	Pamela Allen Pamela Allen Pamela Allen, born in April 1934, in Devonport, New Zealand is a children's writer and illustrator. She has published over 30 picture books since 1980, when she moved to Australia. Eight of her books have been adapted for the stage by The Patch Theatre Company and performed at the Sydney Opera House...	Who Sank the Boat?	Nelson Australia
1982 1982 in literature The year 1982 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*La Bicyclette Bleue by Régine Deforges becomes France's best selling novel ever.-New books:...	Christobel Mattingley, illus. Patricia Mullins	Rummage	Angus & Robertson Angus & Robertson Angus & Robertson is a bookstore chain in Australia. Its first bookstore was opened in 110½ Market Street, Sydney by Scotsman David Angus in 1884; it sold second-hand books. In 1886, he went into partnership with fellow Scot, George Robertson with whom he had worked earlier.- Bookselling history...
1981 1981 in literature The year 1981 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction given for the first time...	No award
1980 1980 in literature The year 1980 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first woman to be elected to the Académie française....	Peter Pavey	One Dragon's Dream	Nelson Australia
1979 1979 in literature The year 1979 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyV.C...	Percy Trezise Percy Trezise Percy Trezise AM was an Australian pilot, painter, explorer and writer as well as, notably, a discoverer, documenter and historian of Aboriginal rock art. He was born in Tallangatta, Victoria but is associated especially with Far North Queensland and the rock art galleries of the Cape York Peninsula... and Dick Roughsey	The Quinkins	Collins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
1978 1978 in literature The year 1978 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, a humorous award given annually to books with unusual titles is created. The first winner was Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude...	Jenny Wagner, illus. Ron Brooks	John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat	Viking Kestrel
1977 1977 in literature The year 1977 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:Douglas Adams begins writing for BBC radio.V. S. Naipaul declines the offer of a CBE....	No award
1976 1976 in literature The year 1976 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Saul Bellow won both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.-New books:*Kingsley Amis – The Alteration...	Dick Roughsey	The Rainbow Serpent	Collins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
1975 1975 in literature The year 1975 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* August 12 — with the 20-year time limit stipulated by Thomas Mann at his death having expired, sealed packets containing 32 of the author's notebooks were opened in Zurich, Switzerland.* Writing under the...	A. B. Paterson, illus. Quentin Hole	The Man from Ironbark	Collins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
1974 1974 in literature The year 1974 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman.-New books:Richard Adams - Shardik*Kingsley Amis - Ending Up...	Jenny Wagner, illus. Ron Brooks	The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek	Longman Young
1973 1973 in literature The year 1973 in literature involved several significant events and the writing of many notable books.-Events:*September 25 - The funeral of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda becomes a focus for protests against the new government of Augusto Pinochet...	No award
1972 1972 in literature The year 1972 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Fiction:Richard Adams - Watership DownJorge Amado - Teresa Batista Cansada da Guerra *Martin Amis - The Rachel Papers...	No award
1971 1971 in literature The year 1971 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles wins the UK's first Whitbread Novel of the Year Award.-New books:Hiroshi Aramata - Teito Monogatari...	A. B. Paterson, illus. Desmond Digby	Waltzing Matilda	Collins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
1970 1970 in literature The year 1970 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Deliverance by American poet James Dickey published...	No award
1969 1969 in literature The year 1969 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The first Booker Prize is awarded.* "Penelope Ashe", author of the bestselling novel Naked Came the Stranger, is found to be several people who each took a turn writing a chapter of what they described as "junk" in...	Ivan Southall Ivan Southall Ivan Francis Southall AM, DFC was an award-winning Australian writer of young-adult fiction and non-fiction. He was the first and still the only Australian to win the Carnegie Medal in Literature for children's literature. His books include Hills End, Ash Road, Josh, and Let the Balloon Go... , illus. Ted Greenwood	Sly Old Wardrobe	Cheshire
1968 1968 in literature The year 1968 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Dean R. Koontz's first novel, Star Quest is published....	No award
1967 1967 in literature The year 1967 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:Influential science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions published.Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK.-New books:...	No award
1966 1966 in literature The year 1966 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*February 14 - Dissident writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to hard labour for "anti-Soviet activity"....	No award
1965 1965 in literature The year 1965 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Lloyd Alexander - The Black CauldronJ. G. Ballard - The DroughtRay Bradbury - The Vintage BradburyJohn Brunner...	Elizabeth MacIntyre	Hugh's Zoo	Constable Young Books
1964 1964 in literature The year 1964 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Jean-Paul Sartre becomes head of the Organization to Defend Iranian Political Prisoners....	No award
1963 1963 in literature The year 1963 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:First United States printing of John Cleland's 1749 novel, Fanny Hill . The book is banned for obscenity, triggering a court case by its publisher.Leslie Charteris publishes his final collection of stories...	No award
1962 1962 in literature The year 1962 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*January 7 - In an article in the New York Times Book Review, Gore Vidal calls Evelyn Waugh "our time's first satirist."...	No award
1961 1961 in literature The year 1961 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:First English production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo UiMichael Halliday publishes his seminal paper on the systemic functional grammar model....	No award
1960 1960 in literature The year 1960 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*November 2 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case in the United Kingdom....	No award
1959 1959 in literature The year 1959 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*April 30 - Theatrical première of Bertolt Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards, originally performed on radio in 1932....	No award
1958 1958 in literature The year 1958 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:August 18 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in United States.First volume of The Civil War by Shelby Foote is published....	Axel Poignant, illus. photographs	Piccaninny Walkabout	Angus and Robertson
1957 1957 in literature The year 1957 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Lawrence Durrell publishes the first volume of The Alexandria Quartet. The final of the four volumes will be published in 1960....	No award
1956 1956 in literature The year 1956 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Writing under the pseudonym of Emile Ajar, author Romain Gary becomes the only person ever to win the Prix Goncourt twice.*Iris Murdoch marries John Bayley....	Peggy Barnard, illus. Shiela Hawkins	Wish and the Magic Nut	John Sands
1955 1955 in literature The year 1955 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*28 May - Philip Larkin makes a train journey from Hull to London which inspires his poem The Whitsun Weddings....	No award

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