Exploring the 2012 CBCA Short List


The PETAA Teachers’ Guide to the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards.

Units of work focussed on books in the five categories.
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Book of the Year: Early Childhood

No Bears
Author: Meg McKinlay
Illustrator: Leila Rudge

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No Bears

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The Runaway Hug
That’s Not a Daffodil!
The Last Viking
Come Down, Cat!
Rudie Nudie

Picture Book of the Year

Flood
Author: Jackie French
llustrator: Bruce Whately

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Flood

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Look, a Book!
The Dream of the Thylacine
For All Creatures
A Bus Called Heaven
No Bears

Book of the Year: Older Readers

The Golden Day
Author: Ursula Dubosarsky

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The Golden Day

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Ship Kings: The Coming of the Whirlpool
When We Were Two
Ishmael and the Hoops of Steel (for age 14+)
A Straight Line to my Heart (14+)
The Dead I Know (14 +)