# Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book

The Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book has been presented occasionally since 1955 by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA).
The Award "will be made to outstanding books of the Picture Book genre in which the author and illustrator achieve artistic and literary unity, or, in wordless picture books, where the story, theme or concept is unified through illustrations."

## Award winners
### 1950s

| Year | Author | Illustrator | Book | Publisher |
| 1955 | No award | | | |
| 1956 | Peggy Barnard | Sheila Hawkins | Wish and the Magic Nut | John Sands |
| 1957 | No award | | | |
| 1958 | Axel Poignant | photographs | Piccaninny Walkabout | Angus & Robertson |
| 1959 | No award | | | |

### 1960s

| Year | Author | Illustrator | Book | Publisher |
| 1960 | No award | | | |
| 1961 | No award | | | |
| 1962 | No award | | | |
| 1963 | No award | | | |
| 1964 | No award | | | |
| 1965 | Elisabeth MacIntyre | | Hugh's Zoo | Constable Young Books |
| 1966 | No award | | | |
| 1968 | No award | | | |
| 1969 | Ivan Southall | Ted Greenwood | Sly Old Wardrobe | Cheshire |

### 1970s

| Year | Author | Illustrator | Book | Publisher |
| 1970 | No award | | | |
| 1971 | A. B. Paterson | Desmond Digby | Waltzing Matilda | Collins |
| 1974 | Jenny Wagner | Ron Brooks | The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek | Longman Young |
| 1975 | A. B. Paterson | Quentin Hole | The Man from Ironbark | Collins |
| 1976 | Dick Roughsey | Dick Roughsey | The Rainbow Serpent | Collins |
| 1978 | Jenny Wagner | Ron Brooks | John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat | Viking Kestrel |
| 1979 | Percy Trezise | Dick Roughsey | The Quinkins | Collins |

### 1980s

| Year | Author | Illustrator | Book | Publisher |
| 1980 | Peter Pavey | | One Dragon's Dream | Nelson Australia |
| 1981 | No award | | | |
| 1982 | Jan Ormerod | Jan Ormerod | Sunshine | Penguin Books |
| 1983 | Pamela Allen | Pamela Allen | Who Sank the Boat? | Nelson Australia |
| 1984 | Pamela Allen | Pamela Allen | Bertie and the Bear | Nelson Australia |
| 1985 | Not awarded | | | |
| 1986 | Terry Denton | Terry Denton | Felix & Alexander | Oxford University Press |
| 1987 | Helen Smith, text based on a story by Kenji Miyazawa | Junko Morimoto | Kojuro and the Bears | Collins |
| 1988 | Bob Graham | Bob Graham | Crusher is Coming! | Lothian |
| 1989 | Graeme Base | Graeme Base | The Eleventh Hour | Viking Books |
| 1989 | Allan Baillie | Jane Tanner | Drac and the Gremlin | Viking Kestrel |

### 1990s

| Year | Author | Illustrator | Book | Publisher |
| 1990 | Margaret Wild | Julie Vivas | The Very Best of Friends | Margaret Hamilton |
| 1991 | Bob Graham | Bob Graham | Greetings from Sandy Beach | Lothian |
| 1992 | Jeannie Baker | | Window | Julia MacRae |
| 1993 | Bob Graham | Bob Graham | Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten | Penguin Books |
| 1994 | Gary Crew | Peter Gouldthorpe | First Light | Lothian |
| 1995 | Gary Crew | Stephen Woolman | The Watertower | Keystone, Era |
| 1996 | Narelle Oliver | | The Hunt | Lothian |
| 1997 | Elizabeth Honey | | Not a Nibble! | Little Ark |
| 1998 | Junko Morimoto, translated by Isao Morimoto | Junko Morimoto | The Two Bullies | Random House |
| 1999 | John Marsden | Shaun Tan | The Rabbits | Lothian |

### 2000s

| Year | Author | Illustrator | Book | Publisher |
| 2000 | Margaret Wild | Anne Spudvilas | Jenny Angel | Viking Books |
| 2001 | Margaret Wild | Ron Brooks | Fox | Allen and Unwin |
| 2002 | Libby Gleeson | Armin Greder | An Ordinary Day | Scholastic Press |
| 2003 | Norman Jorgensen | Brian Harrison-Lever | In Flanders Fields | Fremantle Arts Centre Press |
| 2004 | Joan Grant | Neil Curtis | Cat and Fish | Lothian |
| 2005 | Alison Lester | Alison Lester | Are We There Yet? A Journey Around Australia | Viking Books |
| 2006 | Colin Thompson | | The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley | Lothian |
| 2007 | Shaun Tan | Shaun Tan | The Arrival | Lothian |
| 2008 | Matt Ottley | | Requiem for a Beast | Lothian |
| 2009 | Kylie Dunstan | | Collecting Colour | Lothian |

### 2010s

| Year | Author | Illustrator | Book | Publisher |
| 2010 | Gregory Rogers | | The Hero of Little Street | Allen & Unwin |
| 2011 | Jeannie Baker | | Mirror | Walker Books |
| 2011 | Nicki Greenberg | | Hamlet | Allen & Unwin |
| 2012 | Bob Graham | Bob Graham | A Bus Called Heaven | Walker Books |
| 2013 | Julie Hunt | Ron Brooks | The Coat | Allen & Unwin |
| 2014 | Shaun Tan | Shaun Tan | Rules of Summer | Hachette Australia |
| 2015 | Irena Kobald | Freya Blackwood | My Two Blankets | Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont |
| 2016 | Nadia Wheatley | Armin Greder | Flight | Windy Hollow Books |
| 2017 | Bob Graham | Bob Graham | Home in the Rain | Walker Books |
| 2018 | Gwyn Perkins | Gwyn Perkins | A Walk in the Bush | Affirm Press |
| 2019 | Shaun Tan | Shaun Tan | Cicada | Lothian |

### 2020s

| Year | Author | Illustrator | Book | Publisher |
| 2020 | Chris McKimmie | Chris McKimmie | I Need a Parrot | Ford Street |
| 2021 | Meg McKinlay | Matt Ottley | How to Make a Bird | Walker Books |
| 2022 | Claire Saxby | Jess Racklyeft | Iceberg | Allen & Unwin |
| 2023 | Zeno Sworder | Zeno Sworder | My Strange Shrinking Parents | Thames & Hudson |
| 2024 | Kelly Canby | Kelly Canby | Timeless | Fremantle Press |