2025 CBCA Notables - Complete List

To and Fro

Footprint

I Hope This Doesn't Find You

One Little Dung Beetle

The Garden of Broken Things

a brand new 2024 picture from Australia's award-winning children's author and illustrator full of kindness and compass

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

Worms Are Our Friends

Our Friends in the Garden

How to Move a Zoo

The incredible true story

The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Extinct Animals

Always Was, Always Will Be

2025 CBCA Eve Pownall Award Winner

Unreal

Can you tell fact from fake?

South With the Seabirds

Laughter is the Best Ending

2025 CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR: Younger Readers

My Family and Other Suspects

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

Landovel

Presented in a stunning embellished giftbox containing all three books with colourful sprayed edges

Amid the Sand Dunes

Little Worlds

Comes the Night

Meerkat Mayhem

Over or Under?

Fluff, Mess Up!

Fluff

The Big Book of Australian Nursery Rhymes

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

Wedge-tailed Eagle

Nature Storybooks

The Skin I'm In

I'm Not Really Here

2025 CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR: Older Readers

When the World Was Soft

Yindjibarndi Creation Stories

Eleanor Jones Can't Keep a Secret

Spiro

Extreme Animal Facts

these long-loved things

Flora

Australia's Most Curious Plants

Afloat

We Live in a Bus

Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger

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

Willow's Gumboots

Real Pigeons Power Up

Real Pigeons #12

Don't Worry, Felix

Birdy

Shower Land 1

Break the Curse

Bernie Thinks in Boxes

Kate Forsyth's Long-Lost Fairy Tales

To Stir with Love

How to Break a World Record and Survive Grade Five

Worst Week Ever! Saturday

Sky Country

Design & Building on Country

First Knowledges for younger readers

For 60,000 Years

Saskia Spark-Lee

Fundraiser Fail

Ming and Ada Spark the Digital Age

The Girls Who Changed the World

Two Turtles

Walking Together

Thunderhead

Happy All Over

CBCA Notable Book 2025

The Land Recalls You

Kimberley Kickers : Jy Goes for Gold

Kimberley Kickers

Plantabulous!

More A to Z of Australian Plants

House

Look Me in the Eye

Sensational Australian Animals

BFFs (NOT) (Twinning #1)

Three Dresses

Into the Mouth of the Wolf

Wrong Answers Only

Six Summers of Tash and Leopold

Tweet

Follow Your Gut

a story from the microbes that make you

Why I Love Christmas

Come Together Again

A Celebration of First Nations Music, Song and Dance

Into the Ice

Reflections on Antarctica

The Invocations

Dinosaur in My Pocket

Grow Big, Little Seed

2025 CBCA Award for New Illustrator Winner

The Most Amazing Thing

Seed to Sky

Life in the Daintree

Hello Twigs, Look Who's Grumpy

Volume 6

Liar's Test

The Silverleaf Chronicles

Walking the Rock Country in Kakadu

Karrire kundenge karribolknan kunwarddehwardde

Reading to Baby

I Am Tree Rex!

Australia's Baby Animals

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

Good Hair

The Space Between

Listen, Hippo!

Small Acts

Dragon Folding

Deep Is the Fen

General Waste

Countdown to Yesterday

The Wobbly Bike

2025 CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR: Early Childhood

The Kindness Project

Wedge-tailed Eagle

Nature Storybooks

Maria Petranelli is Prepared for Anything (Except This)

Winner of the Ampersand Prize

All About the Brain 

Kittens Do Not Care for Baths

Preschool Problems

Tilly in a Tangle

Sunny Finds His Song

The Anti-Racism Kit

A Guide for High School Students

Just Like You

White Noise

How to Make a Bedtime