{"id":79410,"date":"2018-03-01T11:58:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T00:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=79410"},"modified":"2018-03-08T13:11:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T02:11:28","slug":"cbca-notable-books-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2018\/03\/01\/cbca-notable-books-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The CBCA notable books of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-79411 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-01-at-11.01.44-am.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s that time of year again and the Children&#8217;s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) have released their list of notables &#8211; the best Australian children&#8217;s and YA titles from the last 12 months. The list this year is particularly strong and we have no idea how the judges are going to pick a winner. Check out the list of Notables here &#8211; did your favourites make the list?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators and publishers voted into each category!<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Older Readers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Books in the Older Readers\u00a0category\u00a0are fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for readers aged 13-18 years. Below are just a few examples of the incredible books you&#8217;ll find! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/cbca-noteables-2018-older-readers\/series7026.html?utm_source=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=CBCA%20notables%202018\">See the full list of notables for this category here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79416 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Untitled-design-7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Younger Readers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Books in the Younger Readers category are perfect for kids aged between 8 and 12 years. They can be fiction, drama or poetry &#8211; as long as the style and content is appropriate for the readers.\u00a0Below are just a few examples of the incredible books you&#8217;ll find!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/cbca-notables-2018-younger-readers\/series7027.html?utm_source=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=CBCA%20notables%202018\">See the full list of notables for this category here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79420 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Untitled-design-8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Picture Book<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Authors and illustrators worked together to achieve incredible artistic beauty with these picture books! Entries for this category can be suitable for those aged 0-18 years. Below are just a few examples of the incredible books you&#8217;ll find!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/cbca-notables-2018-picture-books\/series7030.html?utm_source=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=CBCA%20notables%202018\">See the full list of notables for this category here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79421 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Untitled-design-9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Early Childhood<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In the Early Childhood category, the fiction, drama or poetry should be appropriate in style and content\u00a0for children who are at pre-reading or early stages of reading (between 0-7 years).\u00a0Below are just a few examples of the incredible books you&#8217;ll find!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/cbca-notables-2018-early-childhood\/series7028.html?utm_source=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=CBCA%20notables%202018\">See the full list of notables for this category here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79422 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Untitled-design-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Eve Pownall Award for Information Books<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Books entered into this category should intend to document factual material with consideration given to imaginative presentation, interpretation and variation of style, for kids aged anywhere between 0-18 years.\u00a0Below are just a few examples of the incredible books you&#8217;ll find!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/cbca-notables-2018-eve-pownall-award-for-information-books\/series7031.html?utm_source=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=CBCA%20notables%202018\">See the full list of notables for this category here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79423 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Untitled-design-12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-post__content copy\">\n<p>Congratulations to all those longlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards. The shortlist\u00a0is going to be announced on Tuesday 27 March, with the winners announced on Friday 17 August. Stay tuned! To learn more about the CBCA Awards, check out their website <a href=\"https:\/\/cbca.org.au\/notables-2018\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again and the Children&#8217;s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) have released their list of notables &#8211; the best Australian children&#8217;s and YA titles from the last 12 months. The list this year is particularly strong and we have no idea how the judges are going to pick a winner. Check out the list of Notables here &#8211; did your favourites make the list? Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators and publishers voted into each category! Older Readers Books in the Older Readers\u00a0category\u00a0are fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for readers aged 13-18 years. Below are just a few examples of the incredible books you&#8217;ll find! See the full list of notables for this category here. Younger Readers Books in the Younger Readers category are perfect for kids aged between 8 and 12 years. They can be fiction, drama or poetry &#8211; as long as the style and content is appropriate for the readers.\u00a0Below are just a few examples of the incredible books you&#8217;ll find!\u00a0See the full list of notables for this category here. Picture Book Authors and illustrators worked together to achieve incredible artistic beauty with these picture books!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":79413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[8361,2,756,978,993,1200,8018,7394,8604,7966,4434,6406,6567,8605],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/The-2018-CBCANotable-Books-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79410"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79563,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79410\/revisions\/79563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}