2025 Make Your Own Story Book Awards Winners

​​Congratulations to the 2025 Make Your Own Story Book Awards Winners!

Author and screenwriter Kathryn Lefroy and CBCA WA Branch Committee members welcomed 20 excited winners and their guests to the WA State Library for the Make Your Own Story Book Awards Ceremony on Sunday August 17. 

Category	FIRST	SECOND	THIRD
Picture book PP – Yr 2	Vicky Dillmann Year 1 East Fremantle Everything is Grey	Quinn Miller Year 2 Como P.O.V of Life in a Handball	Gavin Arinduque Year 2 Carey Baptist College Harrisdale We’re All In!
Picture book 3 – 4	Sophy Wang Year 3 Riverton Strawbeary Island	Grace Hanson Year 3 Mary’s Mount Primary School The Pickle Princess ​	Vanessa Lew Year 3 Bull Creek May and Millie and the Not Right Houses
Story book 3 – 4	Isobel Brierley Year 4 Guildford The Grandpa Bear Who Didn’t Share	Henley Storch Year 4 Kallaroo Inspector Chubberts and the Curious Case of the Missing Heirloom Watch	Samuel Raschella Year 4 Mary’s Mount Primary School Chasing Falcons
Picture book 5 – 6	Hannah Chan Year 6 North Metro PEAC North Cottesloe I am Brave	Sophie Head Year 6 Mary’s Mount Primary School The Great Outdoors	Judson Thang Year 6 Lockridge Primary School The Perfect House
Story book 5 – 6	Zoë Testa Year 6 Perth Roach Motel	Levi Graham Year 5 Leschenault Captured	Joy Wang Year 6 Riverton The Library of Unfinished Stories
Picture book 7 – 8	Sally Huang Year 8 Perth Modern School Birds of a Feather	Abigail Koh Year 8 Perth Modern School Star Collector	Ainesh Bala Year 8 Perth Modern School The Odd Seed
Story book 7 – 8	Katalina Chalker Year 8 Dalyellup The Monsters	Elena Harrison Year 8 Perth Modern School All the Shades of Grey	Samuel MacPherson Year 8 Udec A Peasant’s Calling