The Children’s Book Award 2022 shortlist has been announced, with children choosing their favourite books from the last two years after a year-long hiatus. The challenges of getting books out to the child judges in lockdown meant the award did not run last year. Children across the UK are now invited to vote for their […]
Congratulations to the following authors and illustrators who are on the shortlist for the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Award. Authors: Marie-Aude Murail from France, María Cristina Ramos from Argentina, Fatima Sharafeddine from Lebanon, Peter Svetina from Slovenia, Annika Thor from Sweden, and Margaret Wild from Australia. Illustrators: Beatrice Alemagna from Italy, Ryoji Arai from Japan, […]
Congratulations to Jenny Pearson and Rob Biddulph, Izzi Howell, and Sam Harper and Chris Jevons, who have been named winners of the Laugh Out Loud Awards aka The Lollies, a set of awards created by Scholastic UK to celebrate the funniest children’s books. They triumphed in the following categories: Best […]
Celebrating outstanding newcomers to picture book illustration
The books in contention for the 2022 Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards.
The 2022 Henrietta Branford Writing Competition, the annual competition for young people which runs in conjunction with the Branford Boase Award, is now open.
The longlist for the 2022 Branford Boase Award is announced today (Wednesday 26 January 2022). Set up in memory of award-winning author Henrietta Branford and her editor Wendy Boase, one of the founders of Walker Books, the Branford Boase Award is given annually to the author of an outstanding debut novel for children. It has […]
EmpathyLab has launched its 2022 Read for Empathy book collection. An expert judging panel has selected 60 books for 4-16 year-olds, ‘each chosen to empower an empathy-educated generation’. ‘The pandemic has triggered an empathy deficit in our children who have been deprived of interactions with others, denying them the chance to develop their social skills’ […]
The BookTrust Storytime Prize, which aims to celebrate the best books for sharing with babies and young children, has been awarded to The Whales on the Bus written by Katrina Charman and illustrated by Nick Sharratt (Bloomsbury Children’s Books). The BookTrust Storytime Prize is an annual prize set up to promote the life-changing […]
‘We all agreed this brilliant book is a wonder and will enrich all who read it.’ Manjeet Mann has won the 2021 Costa Children’s Book Award for The Crossing described by the judges as ‘brilliant’ and ‘a book to enrich all who read it.’ Written in verse, with a powerful dual narrative, the book is a […]
The shortlist for the 2021 Costa Children’s Book Award has been announced. The Costa is the only major UK book prize open solely to authors resident in the UK and Ireland and this is their 50th year. This year’s judges for the Costa Children’s Book Award are Gill Edwards, owner of The Little Ripon Bookshop; […]
Submissions are now open for the 2022 Little Rebels Award for Radical Fiction which celebrates children’s books which promote social equality and social justice. 2022 marks ten years of the Little Rebels Award. Its organisers hope to expand the educational reach of the prize next year by producing physical and digital resources that can be […]
John Agard has been named recipient of the BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution to children’s literature. The judges highlighted John’s persistence and creativity in championing and challenging the language norms that too often dominate literature and the curriculum as well as his ability to connect with children today and inspire them to […]
The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) have released their 4th annual Reflecting Realities Survey of Ethnic Representation within UK Children’s Literature. It reveals positive changes but warns against complacency and identifies further room for improvement. The survey shows that 15% of children’s books published in 2020 feature a minority ethnic character. This is a significant […]
The theme for National Non-Fiction November 2021 is Heroes!
Michael Rosen has won the CLiPPA (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education Poetry Award for his collection On the Move, Poems About Migration, published by Walker Books and illustrated by Quentin Blake. On the Move explores Michael Rosen’s own past, as the son of a Polish-Jewish family growing up in London, and includes poems about […]
Flavia Z. Drago has been named winner of the 2021 Klaus Flugge Prize for the most exciting and promising newcomer to children’s picture book illustration. She won for her book Gustavo the Shy Ghost (Walker Books) about a little ghost who despite being so shy he is invisible to the other monsters, eventually finds a […]
Andersen Press, along with project partner Wild in Art, are delighted to announce their most recent Elmer’s Big Art Parade auction raised an incredible £312,750 for the Heart of Kent Hospice, bringing the total raised across all trails to £1,072,000. The auction, held on Thursday 9th September at the Mercure Maidstone was the culmination of […]
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