CBCA Notables Book Reviews

 

Book Reviews from StoryLinks for CBCA Notable Books

Picture Books

Blue Flower – Sonya Hartnett, Ill. Gabriel Evans

The Boy and the Elephant – Freya Blackwood

The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name – Sandhya Parappukkaran

Christmas Always Comes – Jackie French, Ill. Bruce Whatley

The Katha Chest – Radhiah Chowdhury, Ill. Lavanya Naidu

Mo and Crow – Jo Kasch, Ill. Jonathan Bentley

Salih – Inda Ahmad Zahri, Ill. Anne Ryan

Stellarphant – James Foley

 

Older Readers

House of Hollow – Krystal Sutherland

The Midnight Girls – Alicia Jasinska

Sugar Town Queens – Malla Nunn

 

Younger Readers

Always – Morris Gleitzman

The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel – Nicki Greenberg

Dragon Skin – Karen Foxlee

Eliza Vanda’s Button Box – Emily Rodda

The Edge of Thirteen – Nova Weetman

Elsewhere Girls – Emily Gale & Nova Weetman

Footprints on the Moon – Lorraine Marwood

Fozia and the Quest of Prince Zal – Rosanne Hawke

A Glasshouse of Stars – Shirley Marr

Listen Layla – Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Little Gem – Anna Zobel

Mim and the Baffling Bully (The Travelling Bookshop, #1) – Katrina Nannestad, ill. Cheryl Orsini

My Brother Ben – Peter Carnavas

Night Ride into Danger – Jackie French

Pawcasso – Remy Lai

Rabbit, Soldiier, Angel, Thief – Katrina Nannestad

The Right Way to Rock – Nat Amoore

Seven Wherewithal Way – Samantha-Ellen Bound

 

Early Childhood

Amira’s Suitcase – Vikki Conley, Ill. Nicky Johnston

Hello World – Lisa Shanahan, Ill. Leila Rudge

Train Party – Karen Blair

 

Eve Pownall Award

Book of Curious Birds – Jennifer Cousins

The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Peculiar Pairs in Nature – Sami Bayly