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. The first award was presented in 1988. 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.

List of CBCA Award for New Illustrator 2019–

*2019 – Daniel Gray-Barnett for ''Grandma Z'' *2020 – Jasmine Seymour for ''Baby Business'' *2021 – Zeno Sworder for ''This Small Blue Dot'' *2022 – Michelle Pereira for ''The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name''

Crichton Award winners 1988–2018

* 1988 – Raymond Meeks for ''The Pheasant and the Kingfisher'' * 1989 – Marilyn Pride for ''Australian Dinosaurs'' * 1990 – Jeanie Adams for ''Pigs and Honey'' * 1991 – Grace Fielding for ''Bip, the Snapping Bungaroo'' * 1992 –

Kim Gamble Kim Gamble (13 July 1952 – 19 February 2016) was an Australian illustrator of children's books. He is best known for the ''Tashi'' books, which have been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for television. Early life Kim Hunter ...

for ''The Magnificent Nose & Other Marvels'' * 1993 – Donna Leslie for ''Alitiji in Dreamland'' * 1994 – Jenny Sands for ''Is it True Grandfather?'' * 1995 – Joint Winners :::Astri Baker for ''I Wish I'd Gone to the Moon with Neil Armstrong'' :::Geoff Kelly for ''Power and Glory'' * 1996 – Anne Spudvilas for ''The Race'' * 1997 – Sally Rippin for ''Fang Fang's Chinese New Year'' * 1998 – Joint Winners :::

Shaun Tan Shaun Tan (born 1973) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for '' The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated inc ...

for ''The Viewer'' :::Anna Pignataro for ''I'm in the Sky and I Can't Come Back'' * 1999 – No winner this year * 2000 – Lorette Broekstra for ''Baby Bear goes to the Zoo'' * 2001 – Caroline Magerl for ''Grandma's Shoes'' * 2002 – Mini Goss for ''When Mum was Little'' * 2003 – Naomi Mairou for ''The Dugong Meadow'' * 2004 –

Freya Blackwood Freya Blackwood (born 1975) is an Australian illustrator and special effects artist. She worked on special effects for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy from 2001 to 2003 and won the Kate Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration ...

for ''Two Summers'' * 2005 – Declan Lee for ''Wings'' * 2006 –

Jeremy Geddes Jeremy Geddes is a photo-realistic painter from Wellington, New Zealand. He is widely known for the Cosmonaut series of paintings, and has illustrated for comic book covers, in collaboration with friend Ashley Wood. Geddes won the Spectrum Gol ...

for ''The Mystery of Eilean Mor'' * 2007 – Vince Agostino for ''When elephants lived in the sea'' * 2008 – Anna Walker for ''Santa’s Aussie Holiday'' * 2009 – Sarah Davis for ''Mending Lucille'' * 2010 – Joint Winners :::

Andy Geppert Andy Geppert is an Australian illustrator and author of children's books. He won the Crichton Award for new illustrators for his work on ''Little Big Tree'' in 2010. His follow up picture book A picture book combines visual and verbal narrat ...

for ''Little Big Tree'' :::Andrew Joyner for ''The Terrible Plop'' * 2011 – Clare McFadden for ''The Flying Orchestra'' * 2012 – Sara Acton for ''Ben & Duck'' * 2013 – Marc Martin for ''A Forest'' * 2014 – Graham Byrne for ''Big Red Kangaroo'' * 2015 – Michael Camilleri for ''One Minute's Silence'' * 2016 – Allison Colpoys for ''The Underwater Fancy Dress Parade'' * 2017 – Van T. Rudd for ''The Patchwork Bike'' * 2018 – Rovina Cai for ''Tintinnabula''

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References

Crichton Award Guidelines
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Award category and description

List of CBCA Award for New Illustrator 2019–

Crichton Award winners 1988–2018

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