News - Book Awards

Thursday, April 23, 2026

The shortlist for the 2026 Branford Boase Award, which highlights upcoming new voices in books for children and young adults, has been announced with seven titles making it to the shortlist. This year's shortlist includes a rom com, a horror story, thought-provo...

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Thursday, April 16, 2026

The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) has announced the shortlist for the 2026 CLiPPA (CLPE Poetry Award). Each year the CLiPPA prize highlights outstanding new poetry collections for the young and very young. Past winners include Carol Ann Duffy, Michael...

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

The shortlists for the 2026 Jhalak Prize have been announced, celebrating the best books by writers and illustrators of colour in the UK and Ireland. This year also marks the Prize's tenth anniversary celebrations, reflecting a decade of books that 'excavate his...

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Thursday, March 26, 2026

Picture book Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob, created by Huw Aaron, has been named Overall Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize The shortlisted and winning books are voted for by Waterstones booksellers. The overall prize includes a £5,000 award and the...

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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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