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Shortlisted books - Early Childhood Category
Shortlisted books - Picture Book Category
Shortlisted books - Younger Reader Category
Shortlisted books - Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
Shortlisted books - Older Reader Category
Shortlisted books - Crichton Award
Theme
Shortlisted books - Mini-books
The full list of notable and shortlisted books can be found on the CBCA website.
Also look at The Crichton Award shortlist for first time illustrators.
Go Home, Cheeky Animals! by Johanna BELL(illus by Dion Beasley)
All I Want For Christmas is Rain by Cori BROOKE (illus by Megan Forward)
The Snow Wombat by Susannah CHAMBERS (illus by Mark Jackson)
Nannie Loves by Kylie DUNSTAN
Chip by Kylie HOWARTH
Gary by Leila RUDGE
Wombat Facts (226 KB)
Find out more about wombats. What type of wombat is The Snow Wombat?
One Photo illustrated by Liz ANELLI (text by Ross Watkins)
Mechanica by Lance BALCHIN
Home in the Rain by Bob GRAHAM
My Brother by Dee, Oliver & Tiffany HUXLEY
The Patchwork Bike illustrated by Van T RUDD (text by Maxine Beneba Clarke)
Out illustrated by Owen SWAN (text by Angela May George
Mechanica parts (1527 KB)
This is a very small file of spare parts to be used with our book activity on pages 23 and 48.
Copyright is Lance Balchin. Larger file is on his website https://www.mechanica.com.au
Rockhopping by Trace BALLA
Within These Walls by Robyn BAVATI
A Most Magical Girl by Karen FOXLEE
Dragonfly Song by Wendy ORR
Mrs Whitlam by Bruce PASCOE
Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers Third Grade by Kate & Jol TEMPLE (illus by John Foye)
A Nature Story (110 KB)
Create your own story based on Rockhopping by Trace Balla
Spellbound: Making Pictures with the A-B-C by Maree COOTE
A – Z of Endangered Animals by Jennifer COSSINS
The Gigantic Book of Genes by Lorna HENDRY
Fabish, The Horse that Braved a Bushfire by Neridah McMULLIN (illus by Andrew McLean)
Amazing Animals of Australia’s National Parks by Gina M NEWTON
William Bligh: a stormy story of tempestuous times by Michael SEDUNARY(illus by Bern Emmerichs)
Fabish - Horse Heroes - answers to quizzes (167 KB)
These are the answers to the quizzes in our publication Escape to Everywhere - CBCA Book Week 2017
Waer by Meg CADDY
Words in Deep Blue by Cath CROWLEY
The Bone Sparrow by Zana FRAILLON
Yellow by Megan JACOBSON
Frankie by Shivaun PLOZZA
One Would Think the Deep by Claire ZORN
The Crichton Award is for first time illustrators and is adminstered by CBCA Victorian branch.
A Patch from Scratch by Megan Forward
Small Things by Mel Tregonning
Welcome to Country illustrated by Lisa Kennedy (Text: Aunty Joy Murphy)
Melbourne-Word-by-Word by Michael McMahon
The Patchwork Bike by Van T Rudd (Text: Maxine Beneba Clarke) (See Picture Book category)
Mechanica by Lance Balchin (See Picture Book category)
Welcome to Country - Mixed Media Landscapes (2029 KB)
This file contains Visual Instructions for mixed Media artworks art activity in Escape to Everywhere: CBCA Book Week 2017 pp 42-43.
Visit the official CBCA website to find out what great merchandise they have this year designed by Freya Blackwood. You can buy via their online store or from your local branch.
One of the resources in our book this year is about Escape Rooms with directions on how to create your own. Here are some extra websites about Escape Rooms in libraries.
There are a few websites now offering some great ideas for the Book Week theme.
Here are some ideas for what to do with our mini-books in the Book Week publication Escape to Everywhere.
How to use mini-books (117 KB)
Ideas for using the mini-books in our Book Week publication.