News - Book Awards

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

The 20 books shortlisted in the UKLA Book Awards 2026 have been revealed across four categories, with 85 teacher judges selecting the shortlisted titles. The book award aims to highlight high quality children's books that reflect all identities, promote diversi...

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Tuesday, March 10, 2026

The Carnegies book award shortlists were announced today at the London Book Fair, the signal for thousands of schools around the country and abroad to launch their shadowing groups in the run-up to the announcement of the final winners on 23 June. The Carnegies...

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Tuesday, March 10, 2026

School librarians, teachers and public libraries across the UK have voted The Boy at the Window by Lucy Strange (Barrington Stoke) winner of the Peters Children's Book of the Year Award for 2026, with Peters' team describing it as the 'perfect ghost story,'

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Thursday, February 26, 2026

The six winners of the Inclusive Books for Children Awards have been announced. Celebrating the best UK-published inclusive children's books for ages one to nine, this year's winners will share a £30,000 prize fund and showcase their work at Hay Festival in May. Spannin...

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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

The 2026 longlists for The Carnegies, the UK's longest running book awards for children and young people, have been announced, together with a new pilot aimed at making the awards' shadowing scheme available to a wider audience. The award medals for writing and...

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Thursday, January 22, 2026

The School Library Association (SLA) has revealed the shortlist for the 2026 Information Book Award (IBA), celebrating inspiring UK-published information books for young people, up to age 16. The winners of the IBA and the Children's Choice accolades will be ann...

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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

The longlist for the 2026 Branford Boase Award has been announced. As well as recognising new writers for children and young people, the Branford Boase Award honours the editor of the winning book, highlighting the importance of the editor in nurturing new talent. This...

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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Jamila Gavin's 'exceptionally powerful' historical novel My Soul, A Shining Tree (Farshore) has won the Children's Fiction category of the Nero Book Awards 2025. Winners of the remaining categories included: Fiction Category Winner 2025 Seascraper by B...

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