News - Book Awards

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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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

The UKLA Book Awards are judged by teachers who sought 'positive, empowering or innovative representation of children's lives' in the judging process, so that all children and young people can find themselves represented in the books that they read or study.</...

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

The shortlists for the 2025 Carnegie Medals have been announced. The awards aim to spark a lifelong passion for reading by connecting more children with books that will change lives and are judged by librarians. From tomorrow, reading groups in schools and libr...

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

A book about the science of red-bottomed baboons and iridescent peacocks wins the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize!

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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

The longlists have been announced for the 2025 Carnegie Medals, including awards for writing and illustration, and for the books chosen by young people in the Shadowers' Choice Medal.  The Carnegies, the UK's longest running book awards for children and young people, aim to spark a lif...

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Thursday, February 6, 2025

With a focus on reading for pleasure, Waterstones' booksellers have voted for the books they believe are the very best in new children's writing and illustration. Previous winners of the prize have included Katherine Rundell, Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Rob Biddulph. Last year's winner...

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

The longlist for the 2025 Branford Boase Award has been announced. The Branford Boase Award is given annually to the author and editor of the year's outstanding debut novel for children.  It is the only award to honour the editor of the winning book as well as the book's autho...

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