{"id":79844,"date":"2018-03-29T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=79844"},"modified":"2018-04-13T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T03:58:09","slug":"announcing-2018-cbca-awards-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2018\/03\/29\/announcing-2018-cbca-awards-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the 2018 CBCA Awards Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Announcing<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this week the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) announced the books selected for the 2018 CBCA Awards Shortlist. These are the best Australian children’s and YA titles from the last 12 months. With so many incredible books featured in the shortlist, the judges are definitely going to have their work cut out for them trying to decide on the winners!<\/p>\n

Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators, and publishers voted into each category!<\/p>\n

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The Book of the Year: Older Readers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"2018<\/a><\/p>\n

Shortlisted titles:<\/strong> Mallee Boys<\/a><\/em> by Charlie Archbold, In the Dark Spaces<\/a><\/em> by Cally Black, Take Three Girls<\/a><\/em> by Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell & Fiona Wood, Because of You<\/a><\/em> by Pip Harry, The Secret Science of Magic<\/a><\/em> by Melissa Keil, Ballad for a Mad Girl<\/a><\/em> by Vikki Wakefield.<\/p>\n

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The Book of the Year: Younger Readers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"2018<\/a><\/p>\n

Shortlisted titles:<\/strong> The Elephant<\/a><\/em> by Peter Carnavas, How to Bee<\/em><\/a> by Bren Madcdibble, Henrietta and the Perfect Night<\/em><\/a> by Martine Murray, Marsh and Me<\/em><\/a> by Martine Murray, The Shop at Hoopers Bend<\/em><\/a> by Emily Rodda, The Grand Genius Summer<\/em><\/a> of Henry Hoobler by Lisa Shanahan.<\/p>\n

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The Book of the Year: Early Childhood<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\"2018<\/a><\/p>\n

Shortlisted titles:<\/strong> Rodney Loses It!<\/em><\/a> by Michael Gerard Bauer and Chrissie Krebs (Illustrator), The Second Sky<\/em><\/a> by Patrick Guest and Jonathan Bentley (Illustrator), I’m Australian Too<\/em><\/a> by Mem Fox and Ronojoy Ghosh (Illustrator), Hark, It’s Me, Ruby Lee!<\/em><\/a> by Lisa Shanahan and Binny (Illustrator), The Very Noisy Baby<\/em><\/a> by Alison Lester, Boy<\/em><\/a> by Phil Cummings and Shane DeVries (Illustrator).<\/p>\n

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The Picture Book of the Year<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"2018<\/a><\/p>\n

Shortlisted titles:<\/strong> Mopoke.<\/em><\/a> by Philip Bunting, The Great Rabbit Chase<\/em><\/a> by Freya Blackwood, Swan Lake<\/em><\/a> by Anne Spudvilas, A Walk in the Bush<\/em><\/a> by Gwyn Perkins, Ten Pound Pom<\/em><\/a> by Carole Wilkinson and Liz Anelli (Illustrator), Florette<\/em><\/a> by Anna Walker.<\/p>\n

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The Eve Pownall Award for Information Books<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"2018<\/a><\/p>\n

Shortlisted titles:<\/strong> Do Not Lick This Book<\/em><\/a> by Idan Ben-Barak and Julian Frost (Illustrator), M is for Mutiny!: History by Alphabet<\/em><\/a> by John Dickon and Bern Emmerichs (Illustrator), Left & Right<\/em><\/a> by Lorna Hendry, Amazing Australians in Their Flying Machines<\/em><\/a> by Prue & Kerry Mason and Tom Jellett (Illustrator), Koala<\/em><\/a> by Claire Saxby and Julie Vivas (Illustrator).<\/p>\n

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Crichton Award for New Illustrators<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"2018<\/a><\/p>\n

Shortlisted titles:<\/strong> Can You Find Me?<\/em><\/a> by Gordon Winch and Patrick Shirvington (Illustrator), I Just Ate My Friend<\/em><\/a> by Heidi McKinnon, The Sloth Who Came to Stay<\/em><\/a> by Margaret Wild and Vivienne To (Illustrator), Once Upon an ABC<\/em><\/a> by Sophie Masson and Christopher Nielsen (Illustrator), Tintinnabula<\/a> by Margo Lanagan and Rovina Cai (Illustrator), Mopoke.<\/em><\/a> by Philip Bunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) announced the books selected for the 2018 CBCA Awards Shortlist. These are the best Australian children’s and YA titles from the last 12 months. With so many incredible books featured in the shortlist, the judges are definitely going to have their work cut out for them trying to decide on the winners! Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators, and publishers voted into each category! The Book of the Year: Older Readers Shortlisted titles: Mallee Boys by Charlie Archbold, In the Dark Spaces by Cally Black, Take Three Girls by Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell & Fiona Wood, Because of You by Pip Harry, The Secret Science of Magic by Melissa Keil, Ballad for a Mad Girl by Vikki Wakefield. The Book of the Year: Younger Readers Shortlisted titles: The Elephant by Peter Carnavas, How to Bee by Bren Madcdibble, Henrietta and the Perfect Night by Martine Murray, Marsh and Me by Martine Murray, The Shop at Hoopers Bend by Emily Rodda, The Grand Genius Summer of Henry Hoobler by Lisa Shanahan. The Book of the Year: Early Childhood \u00a0 Shortlisted titles: Rodney Loses It! by Michael Gerard Bauer and Chrissie Krebs…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":79863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,39,53],"tags":[1200,8681,8682,1249,6952,4849,6629],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/CBCAAwardsShortlistSocial.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79844"}],"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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79844"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80088,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79844\/revisions\/80088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}