Christine Pillainayagam is the winner of the 2023 Branford Boase Award for the year’s outstanding debut novel for young people for her funny, song-filled, second-generation coming of age story Ellie Pillai is Brown. The Branford Boase Award is unique in honouring editor as well as author and Christine shares the win with her editor, Leah Thaxton, […]
The winners of the Laugh Out Loud Book Awards (The Lollies) 2023 have been announced in a digital awards ceremony, hosted by author Ella McLeod. The Lollies are now in their sixth year and were created by Scholastic in response to the end of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. The prizes have historically been awarded […]
Ted Kooser and Connie Wanek have been announced as winners of the CLiPPA 2023 for their collection of poems inspired by nature, Marshmallow Clouds (Walker Books), illustrated by Richard Jones. This was announced at a buzzing live ceremony onstage at the Lyttleton Theatre, at the National Theatre. The shortlisted poets read their poems onstage to […]
A Year 10 student, Megan Urmston from Abbeyfield School in Chippenham has been named Pupil Library Assistant of the Year (PLAA) 2023. Megan received the award at a special ceremony for the National Pupil Library Assistant Award, hosted by digital media learning company, Pearson, in London. Megan was selected from eight finalists at secondary schools […]
The Grand Finale of Poetry By Heart, the national poetry speaking competition for schools, will take place at The Globe, this Monday 26 June 2023. A day in which ‘poetry won’t just be lifted off the page, it will be blasted off’, says founder Dr Julie Blake. It is ten years since then Poet Laureate […]
The winners of the 2023 UKLA Book Awards have been announced. Katya Balen has won the 7 – 10+ category for The Light In Everything. She won the same award last year with October, October. The 11-14+ category features another returning winner. Manjeet Mann was joint winner in 2021 with her debut novel Run Rebel. […]
The winners of the UK’s longest-running and best-loved book awards for children and young people, the Yoto Carnegies have been announced. Jeet Zdung has won the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration, formerly the Kate Greenaway Medal for Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear (Kingfisher, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Books). This is the second […]
The winners of the Children’s Book Award 2023 have been announced in a celebratory in-person awards ceremony. The winners are chosen and voted for entirely by children and Louie Stowell’s Loki, A Bad God’s Guide To Being Good – about the Norse god being banished to earth to live as an 11 year old schoolboy […]
The School Library Association have announced the shortlist for the 2023 Information Book Award (IBA). Sponsored by Hachette Children’s Group (HCG), and supported by Peters, the IBA aims to celebrate the importance of information books, highlight the wealth of impressive resources available and support school libraries to get the most out of them. The award, […]
The English Association has announced the winners of the 2023 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards. 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 years. The winning books are chosen […]
Danielle Jawando has won the Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize for her powerful coming of age story When Our Worlds Collided. First awarded in March 2017, the Jhalak Prize and its new sister award Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize founded in 2020, seek to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers. Praised as a […]
Caffè Nero has announced the launch of the Nero Book Awards: a new set of multi-category awards celebrating the craft of great writing and the joy of reading. With a mission to point readers of all ages and interests in the direction of the best books of the year, the Awards aim to recognise outstanding […]
The shortlist for the Klaus Flugge Prize has been announced today. 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 most promising and exciting newcomer to children’s picture book illustration. From […]
Jarvis has been named winner of the 2023 Oscars Book Prize for his poignant tale of friendship, The Boy with Flowers In His Hair (Walker Books). He was presented with the award by HRH Princess Beatrice at a ceremony in London and receives £10,000. The award, now in its tenth year, was set up by […]
The shortlist for the 2023 CLiPPA (CLPE Children’s Poetry Award) has been announced via a live online event watched by thousands of school children in the UK. Celebrating its twentieth anniversary, the CLiPPA is the UK’s leading award for published poetry for children and past winners include Carol Ann Duffy, John Agard, Jackie Kay and […]
The English Association has revealed the shortlist for the 2023 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards. Established in 1995, the awards are presented by the English Association to the best children’s picture books of the year. The winning books are chosen by the editorial board of English 4-11, the journal for primary teachers published by the […]
The shortlist for the 2023 Branford Boase Award is announced today, Thursday 27 April 2023. Founded in 2000 to commemorate prize-winning author Henrietta Branford and influential Walker Books editor Wendy Boase, the Branford Boase Award is given annually to the author of the year’s outstanding debut novel for children. Uniquely, it also honours the editor […]
Can You Tickle A Tiger? by Gemma Cooper (writing as Bobbie Brooks), illustrated by Carrie Hennon and published by Imagine That has been recognised as the best new book for sharing with young children by BookTrust and awarded the BookTrust Storytime Prize. The winning book, one of a selection of six shortlisted, was voted for by librarians and families […]
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