News - Book Awards

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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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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