Books by Themes > Award Winners > CBCA Notables 2021
Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators, and publishers who have made the longlist for the 2021 Notables.
I’ll Always Be Older Than You by Jane Godwin / Sara Acton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
I’ll teach you to eat bananas And an ice cream in a cone, Its good you’ve got me, I had To learn this one on my own. This is a story of wonderment, a direct address from an older sister to a new sibling in which the narrator marvels at how she will always be older than her baby brother, no matter how ol ...Show more
Your Birthday Was the BEST! by Maggie Hutchings
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
From the author of the best-selling Mermaid! and Unicorn! and one of the world’s hottest new picture-book illustrators comes the story of a plucky young cockroach who gate-crashes a birthday party – with hilarious results.Funny, silly and surprisingly cute, Your Birthday Was the BEST! is the perfect ble ...Show more
Deep Water by Sarah Epstein
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
A suspenseful mystery about a missing boy and a group of teenagers, one of whom knows something but isn't telling, from the award-winning author of Small Spaces. HENRY WEAVER IS MISSING Three months ago, thirteen-year-old Henry disappeared from The Shallows during a violent storm, leaving behind his m ...Show more
Please Don’t Hug Me by Kay Kerr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
The most stressful interactions for me are ones like this, where the person's face says one thing but their words say another. Which one am I supposed to believe? Faces seem to be more truthful, but people always act as though their words are the only things that matter. Erin is looking forward to schoo ...Show more
The Mummy Animal Book (Board) by Jennifer Cossins
$9.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
An adorable and informative picture book about mummy animals and their babies from the author of The Baby Animal Book and 101 Collective Nouns. Did you know that a mother peacock is called a peahen and a baby peacock is called a peachick?The Mummy Animal Book is an adorable and informative picture ...Show more
The January Stars by Kate Constable
$16.99 AUD
Category: Advanced Reader 10+
This thoroughly enjoyable novel about two sisters determined to help their grandfather will delight middle fiction readers of all ages. From the author of the bestselling and much-loved novels Crow Country & Cicada Summer. When twelve-year old Clancy and her fourteen-year-old sister, Tash, visit the ...Show more
Ten Little Figs by Rhian Williams; Nathaniel Eckstrom
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A child counts down the figs on the backyard fig tree, as each one is snatched away by a different Australian animal, in this ode to Australia's natural landscape. Ten little figs are on my tree.I love figs and they're all for me. Ten Little Figs is a joyful rhyming picture book about a child keepi ...Show more
Me and My Boots by Penny Harrison
$19.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Bronte Ser.
Me and My Boots is the first title staring Bronte, a fun-loving character who inadvertently challenges gender stereotypes though her everyday adventures. In Me and My Boots, Bronte rejects the label bossy boots, and in introducing us to her family and friends, offers up alternative ways to describe asse ...Show more
The Republic of Birds by Jessica Miller
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Reader 8-12
Olga loves the stories of the old cartographers and pores over their ancient books and maps, trying to unlock their secrets. Sometimes, she thinks she can even feel through the maps- almost see into them-as if by magic. But magic is banned in Tsaretsvo, ever since the war with the birds that divided the ...Show more