Teaching Units: CBCA Shortlist 2016

Every year, PETAA creates quality units of work on all primary-age books that are shortlisted for the prestigious Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards. These units are created by literacy experts, using evidence-based pedagogies and are designed with a busy classroom teacher in mind. They incorporate highlighted examples for close reading activities, as well as word recognition, phonic knowledge and spelling, plus a plethora of ways to use the book with your students for speaking, writing and creating. All activities are linked to the Australian Curriculum: English.

Book of the Year: Younger Readers

The Cleo Stories: A Friend and a Pet

The Cleo Stories book cover with children playing

Libby Gleeson and Freya Blackwood
  Years 1–2  Sample

Soon

Book cover with boy in a the street of a bombed city

Morris Gleitzman
Years 5–6  Unit
(Winner)

Molly and Pim and the Millions of Stars

Molly in a tree with Pim below on book cover

Martine Murray
Years 3–4  Unit

Run, Pip, Run

A Boy and his dog running on the book cover

J C Jones
  Years 3–4 Unit

Sister Heart

Lours bordering an indigo background on cover

Sally Morgan
Years 5–6 Unit

Star of Deltora: Shadows of the Master

Montage of a girl looming behind a ship at sea on cover

Emily Rodda
Years 4–6 Unit

Book of the Year: Early Childhood

Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas

Pirahnas, one with a banana, on the cover

Aaron Blabey
Years F–1 Unit

Ollie and the Wind

Ollie flying over water, propeled by the umbrella he holds, on cover

Ronojoy Ghosh
Years F–2 Unit

Mr Huff

Streetscape with a small boy and a very large Mr Huff

Anna Walker
Years F–2 Unit
(Winner)

My Dog Bigsy

A ginger and white dog (Bigsy) running against turquoise fabric on cover

Alison Lester
Years F–1 Unit

Perfect

Three kids and a cat walking on a fallen tree truck

Danny Parker and Freya Blackwood
Years F–1 Unit

The Cow Tripped over the Moon

An orbiting cow wearing red pants on the cover

Tony Wilson and Laura Wood
Years F–1 Unit

Picture Book of the Year

Ride, Ricardo, Ride!

Looking down ona boy on a bicycle on the street before passing soldiers, whose sillhouettes are on the ground by him

Phil Cummings and Shane Devries
Years 2–4 Unit

And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda

Trench scene in warfare on cover

Bruce Whatley and Eric Bogle
Years 5–6
Unit

Flight

Charachters ona lunar-like plain on cover, with a black sky

Nadia Wheatley and Armin Greder
Years 3–5 Unit
(Winner)

My Dead Bunny

Boy in the foreground and a bunny in the light of an open door behind him

Sigi Cohen and James Foley
Years 5–6 Unit

Suri’s Wall

Suri runing his hands along the bricks of the wall on the cover

Lucy Estella and Matt Oatley
Years 2–4 Unit

One Step at a Time

A boy embracing the trunk of a baby elephant on the cover

Jane Jolly and Sally Heinrich
Years 5–6 Unit

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

We are the Rebels: the Men and Women who Made Eureka

Cover with matches, one lit and the original gold cross of the Eureka flag

Clare Wright
Years 5–6 Unit

The White Mouse: The Story of Nancy Wake

War snese form a soldier feeing an exploding vehicle

Peter Gouldthorpe
Years 5–6 Unit

Lennie The Legend: Solo to Sydney by Pony

Horse rider in sillhouette against an image of the harbour bridge

Stephanie Owen Reeder
Years 5–6 Unit
(Winner)

The Amazing True Story of How Babies are Made

Crying baby and an egg being fertilised by a sperm on the cover

Fiona Katauskas
HarperCollins

Ancestry: Stories of Multicultural Anzacs

Photogrpah of a group of First World War Soldiers on the cover

Robyn Siers and Carlie Walker
Year 6 Unit

Phasmid: Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect

Cover with illustatin of the stick insect by the shoreline of Lord Howe Island

Rohan Cleave and Carol Tulloch
Years 3–4 Unit

Book of The Year: Older Readers

A Single Stone

Portraint of a girl, part obscured, on book cover

Meg McKinley
Years 5–8 Unit

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