Children's Book of the Year Award for New Illustrator

The CBCA Award for New Illustrator (previously Crichton Award for Children's Book Illustration) is one of several awards presented annually by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA).

The award was originally set up from a legacy made to the Victorian Branch of the CBCA by Wallace Raymond Crichton in 1985.^[1] The first award was presented in 1988.^[2]

In 2019, the award transferred to the CBCA Book of the Year Awards and was renamed the CBCA Award for New Illustrator. It is managed by the national awards committee and funded by the CBCA Awards Foundation.

Award category and description

The CBCA Award for New Illustrator is for recognising new talent in the field of Australian children's book illustration.^[1]

CBCA Award for New Illustrator winners (2019–present)

CBCA Award for New Illustrator winners

Year	Illustrator	Title	Ref.
2019	Daniel Gray-Barnett	Grandma Z	[3]
2020	Jasmine Seymour	Baby Business	[4]
2021	Zeno Sworder	This Small Blue Dot	[5]
2022	Michelle Pereira	The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name	[6]
2023	Sally Soweol Han	Tiny Wonders	[7]
2024	Erica Wagner	Hope is the Thing	[8]

Crichton Award winners (1988–2018)

Crichton Award winners

Year	Author	Title	Ref.
1988	Raymond Meeks	The Pheasant and the Kingfisher
1989	Marilyn Pride	Australian Dinosaurs
1990	Jeanie Adams	Pigs and Honey
1991	Grace Fielding	Bip, the Snapping Bungaroo
1992	Kim Gamble	The Magnificent Nose & Other Marvels	[9]
1993	Donna Leslie	Alitiji in Dreamland
1994	Jenny Sands	Is it True Grandfather?
1995	Astri Baker	I Wish I'd Gone to the Moon with Neil Armstrong
1995	Geoff Kelly	Power and Glory
1996	Anne Spudvilas	The Race
1997	Sally Rippin	Fang Fang's Chinese New Year
1998	Anna Pignataro	I'm in the Sky and I Can't Come Back
1998	Shaun Tan	The Viewer
1999	No winner
2000	Lorette Broekstra	Baby Bear goes to the Zoo
2001	Caroline Magerl	Grandma's Shoes
2002	Mini Goss	When Mum was Little
2003	Naomi Mairou	The Dugong Meadow
2004	Freya Blackwood	Two Summers
2005	Declan Lee	Wings
2006	Jeremy Geddes	The Mystery of Eilean Mor
2007	Vince Agostino	When elephants lived in the sea
2008	Anna Walker	Santa’s Aussie Holiday
2009	Sarah Davis	Mending Lucille
2010	Andy Geppert	Little Big Tree
2010	Andrew Joyner	The Terrible Plop
2011	Clare McFadden	The Flying Orchestra
2012	Sara Acton	Ben & Duck
2013	Marc Martin	A Forest
2014	Graham Byrne	Big Red Kangaroo
2015	Michael Camilleri	One Minute's Silence	[10]
2016	Allison Colpoys	The Underwater Fancy Dress Parade	[11]
2017	Van T. Rudd	The Patchwork Bike	[12]
2018	Rovina Cai	Tintinnabula	[13]

See also

• Children's literature portal

• List of CBCA Awards
• List of Australian literary awards