News - Book Awards

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Margaret McDonald's Glasgow Boys has scored a hat trick with its third top literature award this year, winning the Branford Boase Award 2025 for outstanding debut writers and their editors. Editors Alice Swan and Ama Badu, who edited Glasgow Boys, wer...

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Friday, June 20, 2025

Colette Hiller has been announced as the winner of the 2025 CLiPPA children's poetry award for her collection Colossal Words for Kids, illustrated by Tor Freeman (Frances Lincoln Children's Books).  In Colossal Words for Kids, Hiller defines in rhyme 75 'colossa...

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Thursday, June 19, 2025

The winners of the UK's longest-running book awards for children and young people, The Carnegies, were announced today at a ceremony in London. Debut author Margaret McDonald has won the Carnegie Medal for Writing for her "life changing and emotional" novel <a h...

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Monday, June 9, 2025

The Federation of Children's Book Groups has announced the Overall Winner of the 2025 Children's Book Award: I Am Rebel by Ross Montgomery. The Children's Book Award, now in its 45th year, is the only national award voted for entirely by children.

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Thursday, May 15, 2025

The shortlist for the Klaus Flugge Prize, which highlights the most promising and exciting newcomer to children's picture book illustration, has been announced. This is the only prize specifically to recognise a published picture book by a debut illustrator.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

The School Library Association has announced the longlist of 34 non-fiction books for the Information Book Award, together with the launch of a book club opportunity for schools focusing on the longlisted titles. Schools that take part in the IBA Book Club, base...

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Thursday, April 24, 2025

The Branford Boase Award celebrates new children's writers, helping to identifying trends and new directions in children’s literature. It is also is the only award to honour the editor of the winning title and highlights the importance of editors in nurturing...

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

The shortlist for the annual CLPE children's poetry award, CLiPPA, has been announced with five collections by children's poets selected. Schools around the country will now start to shadow the awards, choosing their favourite poems to perform. 

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