The Cbca Book Of The Year Awards, 2024 Notables List

Congratulations to all CBCA Book of the Year Award Notable authors, illustrators and publishers for 2024. Please enjoy our annual video presentation.
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The Notable Australian Children’s Books 2024 is the perfect guide to share with young people. Compiled from critiques submitted by our expert judges, this document can aid their discovery of good stories to read, a reported reason they give for not reading. So share it, discuss it, and let’s continue to grow our reading culture!

Book Of The Year: Older Readers

Entries in this category may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for readers in their secondary years of schooling. Ages 13-18 years.

Note: Books in this category are for mature readers and some may deal with particularly challenging themes including violence and suicide. Parental guidance is recommended.

Book Of The Year: Younger Readers

Entries in this category may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for readers from the middle to upper primary years. 7-12 years.

Note: some of the titles in this category may only be suitable for readers who are in the upper primary years as they contain mature themes, including violence. Parental guidance is recommended.

Book Of The Year: Early Childhood

Entries in this category may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for children who are at pre-reading or early stages of reading. Ages 0-6 years.

Picture Book Of The Year

Entries in this category should be outstanding books of the Picture Book genre in which the author and illustrator achieve artistic and literary unity or, in wordless picture books, where the story, theme or concept is unified through illustrations. Ages 0-18 years.

(Note: some of these books may be for mature readers.)

Eve Pownall Award

Entries in this category should be books which have the prime intention of documenting factual material with consideration given to imaginative presentation, interpretation and variation of style. Ages 0-18 years.

(Note: books in this category are for mature readers and some may deal with particularly challenging themes including violence and suicide. Parental guidance is recommended)

2024 Book of the Year Award Shortlist quick references

Please help yourself to any of these handy Shortlist document downloads.

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2024 Shortlist book critiquesPDF icon (PDF 2.1 Mb.)word document icon (DOCX 2.4 Mb.)
Book of the Year Award Shortlist, complete listPDF icon (PDF 238 Kb.)Word document icon (DOC. 66 Kb.)
2024 Notable Books critiques 2024PDF icon (PDF 178 Kb.) blank
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