Shortlist announced for the 2024 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards
The English Association has announced the shortlist for the 2024 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 by the editorial board of English 4-11, the journal for primary teachers published by the English Association, the National Association for the Teaching of English, and the United Kingdom Literacy Association, from a shortlist selected by a panel of teachers and Primary specialists. Each year, one of the books submitted to the English 4-11 Picture Book Awards will be selected as the recipient of the Margaret Mallett Prize for Children’s Non-Fiction.
The shortlists are:
Non-fiction 4-7
The Secret Elephant by Ellan Rankin (Hachette Children’s Group)
LIFESIZE Deadly Animals by Sophy Henn (Farshore)
Saving H’Non- Chang and the Elephant by Trang Nguyen and Jeet Zdung (Kingfisher)
My First Space Atlas by Jane Wilsher and Paul Daviz (Weldon Owen Children’s Books)
Fiction 4-7
The Artist by Ed Vere (Penguin Random House UK)
One Little Word by Joseph Coelho and Alison Colpoys (The Quarto Group)
My Dad is a Tree by Jon Agee (Scallywag Press)
Holey Moley by Bethan Clarke and Anders Frang (Little Tiger
Non-fiction 7-11
How to Chat Chicken by Nick Crumpton and Adrienne Barman (What on Earth Books)
Weird Sea by Sophie Burrows (Penguin Random House UK)
Brilliant Black British History by Atinuke and Kingsley Nebechi (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
Britannica’s Encyclopedia Infographica by Andrew Pettie, Conrad Quilty-Harper, and Valentina D’Efilippo (What on Earth Books)
Fiction 7-11
Luna and the Treasure of Tlaloc by Joe Todd-Stanton (Flying Eye Books)
Tourmaline by David Cali and Fatinha Ramos (TatePublishing)
The Grand Hotel of Feelings by Lidia Brankovic (Cicada Books)
The Panda’s Child by Jackie Morris and Cathy Fisher (Otter-Barry Books)
Ten Word Tiny Tales by Joseph Coelho and friends (Walker Books
The winners in each category, plus the winner of this year’s Margaret Mallett Award for Children’s Non-Fiction, will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on Saturday 25 May 2024.
