The CBCA Picture Book of the Year has been awarded by the Children's Book Council of Australia since 1956. 56 books have won across 54 award years.
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All 56 Winners
2020s
- ☐ The Truck Cat (2025) — Deborah Frenkel & Danny Snell
- ☐ Timeless (2024) — Kelly Canby
- ☐ My Strange Shrinking Parents (2023) — Zeno Sworder
- ☐ Iceberg (2022) — Claire Saxby & Jess Racklyeft
- ☐ How to Make a Bird (2021) — Meg McKinlay & Matt Ottley
- ☐ I Need a Parrot (2020) — Chris McKimmie
2010s
- ☐ Cicada (2019) — Shaun Tan
- ☐ A Walk in the Bush (2018) — Gwyn Perkins
- ☐ Home in the Rain (2017) — Bob Graham
- ☐ Flight (2016) — Nadia Wheatley & Armin Greder
- ☐ My Two Blankets (2015) — Irena Kobald & Freya Blackwood
- ☐ Rules of Summer (2014) — Shaun Tan
- ☐ The Coat (2013) — Julie Hunt & Ron Brooks
- ☐ A Bus Called Heaven (2012) — Bob Graham
- ☐ Hamlet (2011) — Nicki Greenberg
- ☐ Mirror (2011) — Jeannie Baker
- ☐ The Hero of Little Street (2010) — Gregory Rogers
2000s
- ☐ Collecting Colour (2009) — Kylie Dunstan
- ☐ Requiem for a Beast (2008) — Matt Ottley
- ☐ The Arrival (2007) — Shaun Tan
- ☐ The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley (2006) — Colin Thompson
- ☐ Are We There Yet? (2005) — Alison Lester
- ☐ Cat and Fish (2004) — Joan Grant & Neil Curtis
- ☐ In Flanders Fields (2003) — Norman Jorgensen & Brian Harrison-Lever
- ☐ An Ordinary Day (2002) — Libby Gleeson & Armin Greder
- ☐ Fox (2001) — Margaret Wild & Ron Brooks
- ☐ Jenny Angel (2000) — Margaret Wild & Anne Spudvilas
1990s
- ☐ The Rabbits (1999) — John Marsden & Shaun Tan
- ☐ The Two Bullies (1998) — Junko Morimoto
- ☐ Not a Nibble! (1997) — Elizabeth Honey
- ☐ The Hunt (1996) — Narelle Oliver
- ☐ The Watertower (1995) — Gary Crew & Stephen Woolman
- ☐ First Light (1994) — Gary Crew & Peter Gouldthorpe
- ☐ Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten (1993) — Bob Graham
- ☐ Window (1992) — Jeannie Baker
- ☐ Greetings from Sandy Beach (1991) — Bob Graham
- ☐ The Very Best of Friends (1990) — Margaret Wild & Julie Vivas
1980s
- ☐ Drac and the Gremlin (1989) — Allan Baillie & Jane Tanner
- ☐ The Eleventh Hour (1989) — Graeme Base
- ☐ Crusher is Coming! (1988) — Bob Graham
- ☐ Kojuro and the Bears (1987) — Junko Morimoto
- ☐ Felix & Alexander (1986) — Terry Denton
- ☐ Bertie and the Bear (1984) — Pamela Allen
- ☐ Who Sank the Boat? (1983) — Pamela Allen
- ☐ Sunshine (1982) — Jan Ormerod
- ☐ One Dragon's Dream (1980) — Peter Pavey
1970s
- ☐ The Quinkins (1979) — Percy Trezise & Dick Roughsey
- ☐ John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat (1978) — Jenny Wagner & Ron Brooks
- ☐ The Rainbow Serpent (1976) — Dick Roughsey
- ☐ The Man from Ironbark (1975) — A. B. Paterson & Quentin Hole
- ☐ The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek (1974) — Jenny Wagner & Ron Brooks
- ☐ Waltzing Matilda (1971) — A. B. Paterson & Desmond Digby
1960s
- ☐ Sly Old Wardrobe (1969) — Ivan Southall & Ted Greenwood
- ☐ Hugh's Zoo (1965) — Elisabeth MacIntyre
1950s
- ☐ Piccaninny Walkabout (1958) — Axel Poignant
- ☐ Wish and the Magic Nut (1956) — Peggy Barnard & Sheila Hawkins