The Crichton Award aims to recognise and encourage new talent in the field of Australian children's book illustration. It is administered by the Victorian Branch of the CBCA and the judging panel of three is nominated and elected by the executive of the Victorian Branch. Full details regarding the award criteria can be found at the official Children's Book Council of Australia web site.
2008 Winner
Walker, Anna Santa’s Aussie Holiday Scholastic Australia
Text: Farrer, Maria
Book Description:
Each year Santa likes to have some fun, a chance to get some rest and sun he spins his globe for inspiration and finds a perfect destination...Australia! Join Santa and his new Aussie mates as they travel around Australia, from the Great Barrier Reef to Rottnest Island. Ages 4+
2008 Other Short listed
Blabey, Aaron Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley Viking, Penguin Group Australia
Edwards, Luke Ock Von Fiend Omnibus, Scholastic
Kwaymullina, Ambelin Crow and the Waterhole Fremantle Press
Martinez, Sonia The World according to Warren Fremantle Press
Text: Silvey, Craig
Oxlade, Jonathon The Empty City Lothian, Hachette Livre
Text: Megarrity, David
Past Winners
2008 - Anna Walker Santa’s Aussie Holiday
2007 - Vince Agostino When elephants lived in the sea
2006 - Jeremy Geddes The Mystery of Eilean Mor
2005 - Declan Lee Wings
2004 - Freya Blackwood Two Summers
2003 - Naomi Mairou The Dugong Meadow
2002 - Mini Goss When Mum was Little
2001 - Caroline Magerl Grandma's Shoes
2000 - Lorette Broekstra Baby Bear goes to the Zoo
1999 - No winner this year
1998 - Joint Winners
Shaun Tan The Viewer
Anna Pignataro I'm in the Sky and I Can't Come Back
1997 - Sally Rippin Fang Fang's Chinese New Year
1996 - Anne Spudvilas The Race
1995 - Joint Winners
Astri Baker I Wish I'd Gone to the Moon with Neil Armstrong
Geoff Kelly Power and Glory
1994 - Jenny Sands Is it True Grandfather?
1993 - Donna Leslie Alitiji in Dreamland
1992 - Kim Gamble The Magnificent Nose & Other Marvels
1991 - Grace Fielding Bip, the Snapping Bungaroo
1990 - Jeanie Adams Pigs and Honey
1989 - Marilyn Pride Australian Dinosaurs
1988 - Raymond Meeks The Pheasant and the Kingfisher
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