The Lady Cutler Award is a bi-ennial award, administered by the CBCA NSW Branch, for Distinguished Service to Children’s Literature. Previous winners and information about the award can be found here. The award will be presented to the winner on Saturday November 14th at the Writing NSW centre. Cost is $65 for members/ $80 for non members. Bookings for the Lady Cutler Award 2026 are now open

This year we will be reintroducing THE MAURICE SAXBY LECTURE. Maurice Saxby was the first national president of the Children's Book Council of Australia in 1958 and served as a judge for the CBCA Book of the Year awards. He was affectionately referred to as "the Godfather of Australian Children's Literature." In 2026 the lecture will be held in conjunction with The Lady Cutler award on Saturday November 14th. We are excited to announce that Tristan Bancks, well known and highly regarded children's author and staunch supporter of the CBCA, will be our guest speaker.

Click on this LINK to watch the video of this year's awards held on Friday August 21st at The State Library of NSW. Click on 'View more' to take a look at our photo gallery of the day to see new and familiar faces. Congratulations to all of our winners and honour book authors and illustrators. 

Congratulations to our Collide Book Trailer Competition winners, runners up and highly commended students and schools. Click on the 'View more' button to watch the announcement video from our judges Nathan Luff, Deb Abela, Tristan Bancks and Alexa Moses. 

CBCA Sun Project/Shadow Judging aims to engage students to 'shadow judge' the CBCA Book of the Year Shortlist alongside our esteemed judging panel. Every year young people around Australia join the conversation about the shortlisted books. They judge the books themselves using the same criteria as the adult judges. Click view more to see the video of this year's Shadow Judging winners! 

A monthly magazine highlighting our author and illustrator creatives and linked to what's happening now in Australian books and writing. Featuring guest illustrators, there is a bounty of information for young readers and those who work with them. Access the latest issue and past issues by clicking on the 'View more' button. 

There are always fantastic events happening in our Regions. There's Storytime for Kids on the Central Coast, Vivid Voice with Zena Shapter in Northern Sydney and Lunch with the Stars in Western Sydney in September and another Lunch with the Stars event in the Illawarra/South Coast region in October. Click 'View more' for more information.