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'The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) administers the oldest national prize for children’s literature in Australia. Each year, the CBCA confers “Book of the Year” awards to literature for young people in five categories: Older Readers, Younger Readers, Early Childhood, Picture Books and Information Books. In recent years the Picture Book category has emerged as a highly visible space within which the CBCA can contest discourses of cultural marginalization which construct Australian (‘colonial’) literature as inferior or adjunct to the major Anglophone literary traditions, and children’s literature as lesser than its adult counterpart. The CBCA has moved from asserting its authority by withholding judgment in the award’s early years towards asserting expertise via overtly politicized selections in the twenty-first century. Reading across the CBCA’s selections of picture books allows for insights into wider trends in Australian children’s literature and culture, and suggests a conscious engagement with social as well as literary values on the part of the CBCA in the twenty-first century.'
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- The Story of Karrawingi the Emu 1946 single work children's fiction
- The Magic Pudding : Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff 1918 single work children's fiction
- Piccaninny Walkabout : A Story of Two Aboriginal Children 1957 single work picture book
- Snugglepot and Cuddlepie : Their Adventures Wonderful 1918 single work children's fiction
- My Place : The Story of Australia from Now to Then 1987 single work picture book
- The Rabbits 1998 single work picture book
- The Arrival 2006 single work graphic novel
- Diary of a Wombat 2002 single work picture book
- Dust 2007 single work picture book
- Requiem for a Beast 2007 single work graphic novel
- The Dream of the Thylacine 2011 single work picture book