Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards > 2023 Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards > Shortlists 2023
My Strange Shrinking Parents by Zeno Sworder
$25.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Picture Books
It goes without saying that all children believe their parents to be strange. Mine were unusual for a different reason...One boy's parents travel from far-off lands to improve their son's life. But what happens next is unexpected. What does it mean when your parents are different? What shape does love t ...Show more
Deep: Delve Into Hidden Worlds by Jess McGeachin
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Information Books
WINNER: Book of the Award Eve Pownall Award 2023 A book that explores the places hardest to reach, from the molten depths of our planet to the frigid depths of outer space. Linking seemingly diverse subject matter, it invites the reader to explore worlds hidden from view. What hidden worlds lie bene ...Show more
Xavier in the Meantime by Kate Gordon
$15.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels
Sometimes Xavier wakes up feeling hopeless. Every new doctor … this will fix it. Removing him from school … this will fix it. The therapy group … this will fix it. And his dad moving out. Maybe, this will fix it. Despite his positive affirmations, the black dog never really leaves him. It watch ...Show more
Paradise Sands: A Story of Enchantment by Levi Pinfold
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Picture Books
An enchanting tale of haunting places and mystical bargains, sumptuously illustrated by Levi Pinfold. Washed clean in his pool, we fall under his rule Away from what is, for we are now his. When a young girl and her brothers step into the ghostly Paradise Sands hotel, they fall under the rule of the mys ...Show more
Snap! by Anna Walker
$24.99 AUD
Category: 2023 CBCA Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood Shortlist
Tap, tap tap ... Frog thinks there's no one else in the forest, but you never know what's just around the corner ... Celebrated creator Anna Walker, invites us to hear with our eyes as we follow frog on a rollicking escapade in this pitch-perfect pre-school soundscape.
The Best Hiding Place (HB) by Jane Godwin
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Information Books
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one... Coming, ready or not! Archie has found the best hiding place. But after a while, it feels too quiet. Is the game still on? Has Archie been forgotten? From bestselling author Jane Godwin and emerging illustrator Sylvia Morris comes a rich and a ...Show more
Neverlanders (CBCA Winner 2023) by Tom Taylor
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)
Neverland has become a war zone and it's up to a new group of lost teens to set things right in this gritty YA graphic novel series from #1 New York Times bestselling Australian author Tom Taylor and powerhouse Australian comic artist Jon Sommariva!Bee and her fellow runaways are their own found family. ...Show more
There's No Such Book: CBCA Shortlisted Book by Jessica Dettmann
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Information Books
There's No Such Book is a funny and heartwarming that will resonate with anyone who has experienced the frenzy of Book Week.It's the night before the Book Week parade and Ellie announces that she needs a costume by the morning. Mum, who is taken by surprise, desperately tries to piece together a costume ...Show more
Market Day: CBCA Shortlisted Book by Carrie Gallasch
$24.99 AUD
Category: 2023 CBCA Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood Shortlist
When a girl is given a coin to spend at the market, she thinks carefully about what to buy. She is tempted by the towering stacks of fruit, spinning rides and glass jars filled with sweets.But it isn’t until a stranger gives something to her, without expecting anything in return, that she knows exactly ...Show more
Ask No Questions by Eva Collins
$25.00 AUD
Category: New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)
With a third of Australians born and around half with one parent born overseas, migration stories are a crucial part of our national experience. In her verse novel, Ask No Questions, Eva Collins writes spare affecting lines about her own experience as a teenager when her parents decided to emigrate from ...Show more
The Other Side of Tomorrow by Hayley Lawrence
$15.99 AUD
Category: New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)
What if you thought you had forever ... To live your life. To tell your story. But what if forever was taken from you? When your tomorrows are counted, all you have is this moment. And this story you wish was never yours to tell. When Abby traded her life in the city for a wholesome new life on the coas ...Show more
Our Dreaming (HB) by Kirli Saunders
$26.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Picture Books
Goodjagah, little one, walk with me ... I want to tell you our Dreaming as the Elders told it to me. Award-winning storytellers, Gunai woman Kirli Saunders and Bigambul man Dub Leffler, explore a deep love and respect for Country and all her spirits ... past, present and beyond.