CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2024

The 2024 CBCA Book of the Year Award Honours, Winners, and Sun Project: Shadow Judging Book of the Year Award Winners have been announced.

Book of the Year: Older Readers Winner
Karen Comer Grace Notes

Honour Books
Lili Wilkinson A Hunger of Thorns
Megan Williams Let's Never Speak of This Again 

Shadow Judging Winner
Suzy Zail Inkflower

Book of the Year: Younger Readers
Tristan Bancks Scar Town 

Honour Books
H. Hayek Huda Was Here
Andrew McDonald (text) Ben Wood (illustrator) Real Pigeons Flap Out

Shadow Judging Winner
Tristan Bancks Scar Town   

Book of the Year: Early Childhood Winner
Briony Stewart Gymnastica Fantastica!

Honour Books
Caz Goodwin (text) Pip Kruger (illustrator) Grace and Mr Milligan
Sue DeGennaro Bear & Duck are Friends

Shadow Judging Winner
Bob Graham The Concrete Garden

Picture Book of the Year
Kelly Canby Timeless

Honour Books
Mateja Jager (illustrator) Margrete Lamond (text) Paper-flower Girl
Ronojoy Ghosh & Niharika Hukku (illustrators) Kate Temple & Jol Temple (text) That Bird Has Arms

Shadow Judging Winner
Peter Cheong Every Night at Midnight

Eve Pownall Award
Isolde Martyn & Robyn Ridgeway (text) Louise Hogan (illustrator) Country Town

Honour Books
Jess Racklyeft Australia: Country of Colour
Mark Greenwood (text)Frané Lessac (illustrator) Our Country: Where History Happened

Shadow Judging Winner
Jess Racklyeft Australia: Country of Colour

CBCA Award for New Illustrator
Erica Wagner (text by Johanna Bell) Hope is the Thing