CBCA 2024 Book of the Year: Shortlist Mega Bundle

CBCA BOOK WEEK: AUGUST 17-23 2024

Theme: Reading is Magic!

Older Readers
Entries in this category may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for readers in their secondary years of schooling. Ages 13-18 years.
Note: Books in this category are for mature readers and some may deal with particularly challenging themes including violence and suicide. Parental guidance is recommended.

Younger Readers
Entries in this category may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for readers from the middle to upper primary years. 7-12 years.
Note: Some of the titles in this category may only be suitable for readers who are in the upper primary years as they contain mature themes, including violence. Parental guidance is recommended.

Early Childhood
Entries in this category may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for children who are at pre-reading or early stages of reading. Ages 0-6 years.

Picture Books
Entries in this category should be 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. Ages 0-18 years.
Note: Some of these books may be for mature readers.

Information Books (Eve Pownall Award)
Entries in this category should be books which have the prime intention of documenting factual material with consideration given to imaginative presentation, interpretation and variation of style. Ages 0-18 years.
Note: Books in this category are for mature readers and some may deal with particularly challenging themes including violence and suicide. Parental guidance is recommended.

New Illustrator
This Award aims to recognise and encourage new talent in the field of Australian children's book illustration. Ages 0-18 years.

This bundle includes the following Shortlisted Books:

OLDER READERS

• A Hunger of Thorns - Lili Wilkinson
  
• Grace Notes - Karen Comer
  
• Inkflower - Suzy Zail
  
• Let's Never Speak of This Again - Megan Williams
• The Quiet and the Loud - Helena Fox
  
• Two Can Play That Game - Leanne Yong

YOUNGER READERS

• Being Jimmy Baxter - Fiona Lloyd
  
• Huda Was Here - H. Hayek
  
• Real Pigeons Flap Out - Andrew McDonald
  
• Scar Town - Tristan Bancks
• Scout and the Rescue Dogs - Dianne Wolfer
  
• The Sideways Orbit of Evie Hart - Samera Kamaleddine

EARLY CHILDHOOD

• Bear and Duck are Friends - Sue deGennaro
• Can You Teach a Fish to Climb a Tree? - Jane Godwin
• The Concrete Garden - Bob Graham
• *Grace and Mr Milligan - Caz Goodwin
• Gymnastica Fantastica! - Briony Stewart
• One Little Duck - Katrina Germein

PICTURE BOOKS

• Bowerbird Blues - Aura Parker
  
• Every Night at Midnight - Peter Cheong
  
• If I Was a Horse - Sophie Blackall
  
• Paper-flower Girl - Margrete Lamond
• That Bird Has Arms - Kate Temple
  
• Timeless - Kelly Canby

INFORMATION BOOKS

• Australia: Country of Colour - Jess Racklyeft
  
• Country Town - Isolde Martyn
  
• Eww Gross: Foul Facts and Putrid Pictures - Dan Marshall
  
• Our Country: Where History Happened - Mark Greenwood
• Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country - Violet Wadrill
  
• This Book Thinks Ya Deadly!: A Celebration of Blak Excellence - Corey Tutt

NEW ILLUSTRATOR

• Etta and the Shadow Taboo - Jared M. Field
  
• *Grace and Mr Milligan - Caz Goodwin
  
• Hope Is The Thing - Johanna Bell
  
• Phonobet - Kathy Weeden
• Raised by Moths - Charlie Archbold
  
• When You're A Boy - Blake Nuto

*NOTE:

*Grace and Mr Milligan by Caz Goodwin is shortlisted in two categories (Early Childhood and New Illustrator). This bundle contains one copy only.