2025 CBCA Book of the Year Awards – Shortlists

The annual CBCA Book of the Year Awards affirm the quality of some of Australia’s most creative people and provide a boost to their capacity to devote time to their craft. This list includes: Older Readers Shortlist, Younger Readers Shortlist, Early Childhood Shortlist, Picture Book of the Year Shortlist, Eve Pownall Award Shortlist & New Illustrator Shortlist.

Updated May 24, 2025
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Afloat
Saunders, Kirli/ Blackwood, Freya (ILT)
Paper Book
A powerful picture book story for our time of climate crisis interwoven with Indigenous wisdom. From multi-award-winning Gunai author Kirli Saunders and Kate Greenaway Medal-winner Freya Blackwood comes Afloat. Against a backdrop of a changed environment, an...

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