The shortlist for the 2022 Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction has been announced. Bold, uncompromising narratives tackling prejudice and foreshadowing far-right dystopias dominate. The featured books present powerful indictments of homophobia, racism, disablism and colorism. Dystopic novels highlight all-too-relatable challenges to civil society, including fake news, dictatorships, authoritarian ideologies, fuel and food shortages […]
The School Library Association have announced the 2022 longlist for their Information Book Award (IBA). Now in its twelfth year, the IBA aims to emphasise the importance of non-fiction by highlighting and celebrating the high standard of children’s information books. The awards are divided into three age categories, judged by a panel of educators. Children […]
The shortlist for the 2022 Branford Boase Award is announced today, Thursday 28 April 2022. Founded in 2000 to commemorate author Henrietta Branford and influential Walker Books editor Wendy Boase, the Branford Boase Award is awarded annually to the author of the year’s outstanding debut novel for children. Uniquely, it also honours the editor of […]
The shortlists have been announced for the UKLA Book Awards 2022. The only awards chosen by teachers, talented new authors are well represented and independent publishers feature strongly. The shortlists are: 3 to 6+ Freedom We Sing written by Amyra León, illustrated by Molly Mendoza (Flying Eye) What […]
The shortlists are announced today for the UK’s longest running book awards for children and young people, the Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards. There are eight books on each shortlist, selected from a longlist of 33 titles. They were chosen by an expert team of volunteer judges, featuring 14 librarians from CILIP’s Youth Libraries Group based […]
‘Poetry for children is stretching its limbs in all directions’ CLiPPA 2022 is underway. Organisers CLPE have announced the judges for the UK’s leading award for published poetry for children and its plans for the biggest celebration of poetry for children yet. Poet and former professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Wales […]
The votes of primary school aged-children from across the UK are in and the winner of the Best Book with Facts is Invented by Animals by Christiane Dorian and Gosia Herba while The Last Bear by Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold is winner in the Best Story category. Winning author Hannah Gold, said, ‘When I […]
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; […]
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