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2023 CBCA Digital Yearly Planner
The hugely successful 2022 Yearly Planner is back in 2023 packed full with even more features than its predecessor. Featuring the whimsical artwork of Matt Ottley, the talent behind the 2023 Children's Book Week® theme "Read, Grow, Inspire", this planner can be adapted, printed, or used as an interactive file on your school, home, or portable device.
The planner includes:
- double–page spread weekly planner
- recording sheets for student information, professional records, websites and important dates
- printable CBCA Shortlist posters by Book of the Year category (available 24 hours after the official announcement Tuesday, 28 March 2023)
- supplementary poetry resources (available early in January 2023).
Your planner features:
- CBCA Book of the Year past winners by category
- recommeded First Nation Publications and resources
- resources to help encourage reluctant readers
- CBCA recommended great reads for older readers.
This planner has been made by CBCA book lovers and teachers, confident that no other yearly planner offers what this planner does!
Don't wish you had it, HAVE IT! Jump across to the eStore now and secure your copy.
2023 Children's Book Week® "Read, Grow, Inspire" Catalogue
There's something for everyone and every budget in our 2023 Children's Book Week® catalogue. Along with returning favourites you'll find our must-buy ‘Book Week in a Tube’ and exquisite new display products in our Artisan Range. We also bring you an exciting new partnership with SPENCIL with a limited range of gorgeous stationery guaranteed to be the envy of all colleagues!
Create your wish list and be ready for the eStore opening mid February 2023. Download the catalogue or simply SHOP NOW!
About the Children's Book Council of Australia
Established in 1945, the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) is a not-for-profit, volunteer run organisation which aims to engage the community with literature for young Australians.
Our purpose
To enrich young lives through Australian stories.
Our vision
A thriving creative world embracing the transformational power of stories across generations.
Our mission
To connect, communicate, celebrate and advocate for the value of stories.
Book of the Year
In 1946 the CBCA established annual book awards to promote children's books of high literary and artistic quality. These awards are now the most influential and highly respected in Australia.
Children's Book Week®
Each year, schools and public libraries across Australia spend a week celebrating books, and Australian authors and illustrators. Teachers and librarians conduct activities relating to a theme to highlight the importance of reading.
Merchandise
The CBCA produces a range of promotional items, including stickers for publishers to place on winning and honour books, and support materials for teachers, teacher librarians and public librarians. The range is always changing and developing.
CBCA Sun Project: Shadow Judging
Launching nationwide in 2022, this innovative program brings Australia's young readers directly into the CBCA Book of the Year Awards conversation. Rolled out through schools, libraries and book clubs, the professionally judged Shortlist is "shadowed" with the same criteria to find the Book of the Year voiced by the target readers themselves.
Donate to our Gift Fund
Throughout the year, we work in partnership with authors, illustrators, publishers and booksellers to bring literature into the hearts and minds of children. Your donation will help us continue this important work.
Reading Time
The CBCA has a strong commitment and a long history of reviewing Australian children's books. For many of the seventy years CBCA has been in existence reviews were presented in our print journal Reading Time.