CBCA Picture Book of the Year
The Children's Book Council of Australia's award for picture books. Australia. 56 books on this site.
2026
- Once I Was a Giant by Zeno Sworder Winner
2025
- The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel Winner
2024
- Timeless by Kelly Canby Winner
2023
- My Strange Shrinking Parents by Zeno Sworder Winner
2022
- Iceberg by Claire Saxby Winner
2021
- How to Make a Bird by Meg McKinlay Winner
2020
- I Need a Parrot by Chris McKimmie Winner
2019
- Cicada by Shaun Tan Winner
2018
- A Walk in the Bush by Gwyn Perkins Winner
2017
- Home in the Rain by Bob Graham Winner
2016
- Flight by Nadia Wheatley Winner
2015
- My Two Blankets by Irena Kobald Winner
2014
- Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan Winner
2013
- The Coat by Julie Hunt Winner
2012
- A Bus Called Heaven by Bob Graham Winner
2011
2010
- The Hero of Little Street by Gregory Rogers Winner
2009
- Collecting Colour by Kylie Dunstan Winner
2008
- Requiem for a Beast by Matt Ottley Winner
2007
- The Arrival by Shaun Tan Winner
2006
- The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley by Colin Thompson Winner
2005
- Are We There Yet? A Journey Around Australia by Alison Lester Winner
2004
- Cat and Fish by Joan Grant Winner
2003
- In Flanders Fields by Norman Jorgensen Winner
2002
- An Ordinary Day by Libby Gleeson Winner
2001
- Fox by Margaret Wild Winner
2000
- Jenny Angel by Margaret Wild Winner
1999
- The Rabbits by John Marsden Winner
1998
- The Two Bullies by Junko Morimoto Winner
1997
- Not a Nibble! by Elizabeth Honey Winner
1996
- The Hunt by Narelle Oliver Winner
1995
- The Watertower by Gary Crew Winner
1994
- First Light by Gary Crew Winner
1993
- Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten by Bob Graham Winner
1992
- Window by Jeannie Baker Winner
1991
- Greetings from Sandy Beach by Bob Graham Winner
1990
- The Very Best of Friends by Margaret Wild Winner
1989
- Drac and the Gremlin by Allan Baillie Winner
- The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base Winner
1988
- Crusher is Coming! by Bob Graham Winner
1987
- Kojuro and the Bears by Helen Smith, text based on a story by Kenji Miyazawa Winner
1986
- Felix & Alexander by Terry Denton Winner
1984
- Bertie and the Bear by Pamela Allen Winner
1983
- Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen Winner
1982
- Sunshine by Jan Ormerod Winner
1980
- One Dragon's Dream by Peter Pavey Winner
1979
- The Quinkins by Percy Trezise Winner
1978
- John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat by Jenny Wagner Winner
1976
- The Rainbow Serpent by Dick Roughsey Winner
1975
- The Man from Ironbark by A. B. Paterson Winner
1974
- The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek by Jenny Wagner Winner
1971
- Waltzing Matilda by A. B. Paterson Winner
1969
- Sly Old Wardrobe by Ivan Southall Winner
1965
- Hugh's Zoo by Elisabeth MacIntyre Winner
1956
- Wish and the Magic Nut by Peggy Barnard Winner