The CBCA Nan Chauncy Award has been created to honour a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of Australian Children’s Literature over a period of years.

Such a person could be an editor, publisher, teacher, librarian, bookseller, researcher, lecturer, author, illustrator, etc.

The Award is an opportunity to recognise an individual whose dedicated work in advocacy and promotion of literature and literacy might otherwise not be publicly celebrated.

Nominations close on Friday 30 April 2021.

For more information, and to nominate someone, please visit CBCA’s website.