2025 CBCA Notables - Complete List

Happy All Over

CBCA Notable Book 2025

My Family and Other Suspects

2025 ABIA The John Marsden Book of the Year for Older Children (ages 13+)

The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Extinct Animals

We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord

How to Move a Zoo

The incredible true story

The Wobbly Bike

2025 CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR: Early Childhood

South With the Seabirds

Bernie Thinks in Boxes

Design & Building on Country

First Knowledges for younger readers

When the World Was Soft

Yindjibarndi Creation Stories

I Hope This Doesn't Find You

Over or Under?

Eleanor Jones Can't Keep a Secret

The Land Recalls You

Unreal

Can you tell fact from fake?

Don't Worry, Felix

Wedge-tailed Eagle

Nature Storybooks

Extreme Animal Facts

Worst Week Ever! Saturday

Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra

Ella and the Frogs

I'm Not Really Here

2025 CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR: Older Readers

For 60,000 Years

Comes the Night

Six Summers of Tash and Leopold

The Skin I'm In

Words That Taste Like Home

To Stir with Love

The Truck Cat

2025 CBCA Picture Book of the Year & 2025 ABIA Children's Picture Book of the year (ages 0-6) & National Simultaneous Storytime 2025

Ming and Ada Spark the Digital Age

The Girls Who Changed the World

Tweet

Laughter is the Best Ending

2025 CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR: Younger Readers

Come Together Again

A Celebration of First Nations Music, Song and Dance

these long-loved things

Always Was, Always Will Be

2025 CBCA Eve Pownall Award Winner

Worms Are Our Friends

Our Friends in the Garden

Plantabulous!

More A to Z of Australian Plants

Fluff, Mess Up!

Fluff

The Garden of Broken Things

A new picture book from Australia's award-winning children's author and illustrator, full of kindness and compassion

Into the Ice

Reflections on Antarctica

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy (And Some Things You Didn't)

The Midwatch

Walking Together

Wedge-tailed Eagle

Nature Storybooks

All About the Brain 

The Space Between

How to Break a World Record and Survive Grade Five

The Invocations

The Anti-Racism Kit

A Guide for High School Students

Dinosaur in My Pocket

Meerkat Mayhem

We Live in a Bus

Birdy

A CBCA Notable Book for Older Readers

Into the Mouth of the Wolf

Saskia Spark-Lee

Fundraiser Fail

The Sweetness Between Us

Countdown to Yesterday

To and Fro

The Most Amazing Thing

Wrong Answers Only

Three Dresses

Two Turtles

Kate Forsyth's Long-Lost Fairy Tales

Dragon Folding

I Am Tree Rex!

Stickboy

Reading to Baby

Look Me in the Eye

Kimberley Kickers : Jy Goes for Gold

Kimberley Kickers

My Brother, Finch

Maria Petranelli is Prepared for Anything (Except This)

Winner of the Ampersand Prize

Liar's Test

The Silverleaf Chronicles

Small Acts

Just Like You

Deep Is the Fen

Kittens Do Not Care for Baths

Preschool Problems

Footprint

The Kindness Project

Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger

A new thrilling historical adventure book from Jackie French! A CBCA Shortlist Book and winner of the ACT Literary Awards 2025

BFFs (NOT) (Twinning #1)

Sky Country

Hello Twigs, Look Who's Grumpy

Volume 6

Real Pigeons Power Up

Real Pigeons #12

Australia's Baby Animals

Sunny Finds His Song

Spiro

Good Hair

General Waste

A Way Home

The Other Shadow

Listen, Hippo!

Grow Big, Little Seed

2025 CBCA Award for New Illustrator Winner

Tilly in a Tangle

White Noise

How to Make a Bedtime

Afloat

One Little Dung Beetle

Shower Land 1

Break the Curse

The Big Book of Australian Nursery Rhymes

The bestselling Australian nursery rhyme collection in hardback for ages 2 and up

Flora

Australia's Most Curious Plants

Why I Love Christmas