News - Book Awards

Thursday, June 8, 2023

The School Library Association has announce the 2023 shortlist for the Information Book Award (IBA), which celebrates the importance of information books and highlight the wealth of resources available.

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Thursday, June 1, 2023

The Branford Boase Award highlights debut authors, and often discovers the 'big names' at the start of their writing careers. We wanted to find out more about how this year's shortlist was chosen. Branford Boase judge Sajeda Amir is an English teacher a...

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Thursday, April 27, 2023

The shortlist for the 2023 Branford Boase Award has been announced. The award is given annually to the author of the year's outstanding debut novel for children. Uniquely, it also honours the editor of the winning title and highlights the importance of the editor in nurturing new talen...

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

The 2023 Little Rebels Award shortlist, with books spotlighting social justice issues for the youngest readers and celebrating young people's resilience and strength, has been announced. In these stories, children band together to protest and push back against economic...

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Friday, March 31, 2023

The shortlists for the UKLA Book Awards, judged entirely by teachers, have been announced. The awards seek books from a "wide and inclusive range" of publishers that "recognise a broad range of perspectives, experiences and voices".

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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Nadia Mikail has been named Overall Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for her debut novel, The Cats We Meet Along The Way, which also won the Older Reader's Category.  M.T. Khan's Nura and the Immortal Palace won the Young...

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Friday, March 17, 2023

The Yoto Carnegies celebrate outstanding achievement in children's writing and illustration and are judged by children's and youth librarians, with the Shadowers' Choice Medals voted for by children and young people.

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

The winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2022, announced today, is If the world were 100 people, by Jackie McCann and Aaron Cushley (HarperCollins Children's Books).

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