Welcome to the CBCA (Tasmanian Branch) Inc. website

2025: CELEBRATES 80 YEARS OF CBCA

Find out more at Book Week 2025

2025 AGM: Saturday October TBA 2025

All positions are declared vacant at the AGM. 

2025 Executive elected on October 19, 2024

Your 2024-25 executive are:
President - Steve Martin
Vice President - Roxanne Steenbergen
Secretary - Jo-Ann Wolf
Treasurer and Public Officer - Felicity Sly

We welcome enquiries. Please go to our contacts page.

2025 MERCHANDISE

Merchandise for the 2025 Book of the Year Awards, will become available early in 2025 at https://store.cbca.org.au.

 

 

Membership for 2024/25

New forms are now available on the Membership page, or by emailing tas@cbca.org.au.

All memberships received from Sept 1 are eligible for the remainder of 2024 and all of 2025 membership.

Join or renew now to support the volunteer operations of CBCA Tas Branch.

Personal or institution membership forms can be accessed here.

Book of the Year Awards 2024

Shortlist 2024

Notables 2024

Winners 2024

Book Week 2025

August 16-23

Theme: Book an Adventure

Artwork by Jess McGeachin

Dates to remember

February 25 2025 Notables announced

March 25 2025 Shortlist announced

August 15 2025 Winners and Shadow Judged Winners announced

 

READ ALOUD TO YOUR CHILD EVERY DAY

Launched October 29 2023

CBCA Tasmania Branch and Toast 4 Kids charity have co-launched an initiative to encourage parents/caregivers to read aloud to children in their care...every day. We aim for this message to go Australia-wide, with the opportunity for any organisation to add their own logo to the banner/email signature. Please contact us at tas@cbca.org.au if you would like a copy of the logo.

Read Aloud Logo


OCTOBER 2024: PARLIAMENTARY FRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S LITERACY ESTABLISHED

It is intended that this Group will support the promotion of public messages encouraging parents and caregivers throughout Australia to read to their children every day; and inform Members and Senators of the importance of and benefits of children's literacy.

Contact Persons:

Senator Catryna Bilyk MP
Ms Angie Bell MP
(Co-Chairs)

Events calendar

Foundation for Literacy and Learning Symposium

More information

Shadow Judging

2024 Shadow Judging Winners

Register for 2025 via the SUN Project website


 

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Online Resources

Visit the CBCA website to access Reading Time for children's book news and reviews.

Links to book related activities from the Kid Lit blog

Audible resources free whilst schools closed

Cloudyseas activities (Coral Tulloch facebook)

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From the blog: Have you ever found a fossil?

Tasmanian author and illustrator, Fiona Levings, also has a PhD in Geology. Although no longer working in that field Fiona has expertly harnessed her experiences and knowledge to craft an informative and captivating picture  book to tell, in lyrical prose and amazingly detailed illustrations, the story of the mountain that embraces Hobart in its foothills. Fiona shares some of the challenges, planning, book design and illustrative techniques undertaken to capture a millennia of geological change in Before the Mountain had a Name.

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From the blog: Lost in a Good Book

When was the last time you were so immersed in a book that the world passed you by? Maureen Mann considers some possible criteria to bring on such a state of absorption and shares some titles have engrossed her. Can you think of others?

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From the blog: Discovering Digger Digs Down

This week we welcome author Johanna Bell and illustrator Huni Melissa Bollinger to talk about their publication, Digger Digs Down published by University of Queensland Press. Recently settling in Tasmania, this dynamic duo have produced a delightful and exuberant story about how a dog, left alone for the day, entertains himself by … digging!
 

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From the blog: http://cbcatas.blogspot.com/2024/08/make-for-joy.html

Perseverance is evident in Blake Nuto’s post as he shares his love of story creation from an early age and his self-doubts about his illustrative abilities. With maturity came purpose – and the joy of expression through art. This passion is beautifully portrayed in his recent title, When You’re a Boy, shortlisted for the New Illustrator award in the 2024 CBCA Book of the year nominations.

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