The organisers of the Diverse Book Awards have announced this year’s shortlist. With a new category of Picture Books added to the line-up, almost 200 books were submitted across the awards covering Children’s, Young Adult and Adult Fiction. Five years after the award was set up, the Diverse Book Awards continue to highlight the year’s […]
Kate Winter is the winner of the 2024 Klaus Flugge Prize awarded to the most exciting and promising newcomer to children’s picture book illustration. She won for her book The Fossil Hunter (Puffin Books), which tells the story of Mary Anning, the 19th century palaeontologist whose discoveries in the cliffs of Lyme Regis transformed scientists’ […]
The Wainwright Prize has announced the books on the shortlist for its 2024 award for Children’s Writing on Nature and Conservation. The prize showcases writing that reflects its namesake Alfred Wainwright’s values of celebrating nature and our environment, nurturing respect for the planet, and informing readers of the threats that the earth currently faces. The […]
The shortlist for this year’s Little Rebels Award has been announced. There are eight books on the list, books that ‘speak to a generation of young activists and critical thinkers’ say the organisers, and they cover a wide range of social justice issues from Black History to Black Lives Matter, from access to the arts […]
Congratulations to Matt Goodfellow who has won the 2024 CLiPPA, CLPE Poetry Award, for his verse novel The Final Year, illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton (Otter-Barry Books). The Final Year details Nate’s time in Year 6, an important time for any child, but particularly tough for Nate especially when his little brother falls ill. Helped by […]
Nathanael Lessore is the winner of the 2024 Branford Boase Award for outstanding debut novel for young people with Steady For This, his story of 13-year-old would be rapper Shaun, aka MC Growls, as he navigates life, love and dreams of stardom. The Branford Boase Award is unique in honouring editor as well as author and […]
The winners of the UKLA 2024 Book Awards have been announced. The judges, a panel of twelve teachers, have chosen winners across four categories, picturebooks, fiction and information books. The Hare-Shaped Hole written by John Dougherty and illustrated by Thomas Docherty (Frances Lincoln) is the winner in the 3 – 6+ category. The judges felt […]
Attended by 100 young finalists from all corners of the country as well as international champions from Ireland, France, Canada and the United States, the Grand Finale of Poetry By Heart, the national poetry speaking competition for schools, took place at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, on Monday 1 July 2024. In a spectacular day of competition […]
Frank Cottrell-Boyce, multi award-winning author and screenwriter, has been named Waterstones Children’s Laureate 2024 – 2026. He was presented with the bespoke silver Laureate medal by outgoing Waterstones Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho, at a ceremony held at Howard Assembly Room, Leeds today, Tuesday 2 July. Warning ‘we risk losing a generation unless we act’, Frank […]
The Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing is awarded to the current Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho for his verse novel The Boy Lost in the Maze illustrated by Kate Milner (Otter-Barry Books). The story portrays a boy’s journey into manhood and integrating the myth of the Minotaur with the contemporary journey of a teenager searching for […]
The winners of the HarperCollins Reading for Pleasure Awards 2024, in association with the Open University and the UK Literacy Association (UKLA), have been announced. The awards recognise and celebrate teachers who are putting Reading for Pleasure at the heart of their classrooms in creative and innovative ways, to inspire children to read. This year, […]
The winners of the Children’s Book Award 2024 have been announced at a special celebration award ceremony. Congratulations to Thomas Flintham, who is the overall winner. His graphic novel, Press Start! Game On Super Rabbit Boy! won the Books for Younger Readers category before going on to win the overall prize. The Final Year written […]
Pop Up Projects and The Week Junior are inviting young writers to write a story or poem for inclusion in their forthcoming book, Children for Change. Children For Change is a collection of stories, illustrations and facts inspiring young readers to ‘take an action’ – big or small, local or global – to protect the […]
The School Library Association has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Information Book Award (IBA). Sponsored by Hachette Children’s Group (HCG), and supported by Peters, the IBA celebrates information books and supports school libraries to get the most out of them. Now in its fourteenth year, the award is divided into three age categories. This […]
The winners of the 2024 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards were announced today, Saturday 25 May, at the Awards Ceremony in London. Established in 1995, the awards are presented by the English Association to the best children’s picture books of the year. Awards are given to Fiction and Non-Fiction in age ranges 4-7 years and 7-11 […]
The School Library Association have announced the shortlist for the Peter Usborne Primary School Library of the Year Award, sponsored by Usborne, and the Honour List for the 2024 Secondary School Librarian of the Year Award, sponsored by OverDrive. The SLA’s awards honour the hard work of library staff who run school libraries fostering a […]
Following a celebration event at Waterstones Piccadilly last night, the shortlist for the Klaus Flugge Prize is announced today (Wednesday 15 May). Established in 2016, the prize was set up to honour Klaus Flugge, founder of Andersen Press and a leading light in the world of children’s publishing and illustration. It is awarded to the […]
At a live online event starring shortlisted poets and watched by thousands of school children across the UK, the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) has announced the shortlist for the 2024 CLiPPA (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education Poetry Award), the UK’s leading award for published poetry for children. Established 21 years ago, […]
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