Information Book Awards 2021 Longlist

The IBA aims to emphasise the importance of non-fiction by highlighting and celebrating the high standard of children's information books.

The IBA (Information Book Awards) emphasise the importance of non-fiction by highlighting and celebrating the high standard of children's information books.

The awards are divided into three age categories, judged by a panel of educators. Children will also have the opportunity to vote for their favourites in each group, as well as their favourite overall, to determine four additional Children’s Choice winners.

The longlist for each age category is as follows:

Age 0 - 7

Building a Home by Polly Faber, Klas Fahlén (Nosy Crow)

Fox: A Circle of Life Story by Isabel Thomas, Daniel Egnéus (Bloomsbury)

Grow by Nicola Davies, Emily Sutton (Walker Books)

How to Build an Orchestra by Mary Auld, Elisa Paganelli (Hachette)

What Do Scientists Do All Day? by Jane Wilshire, Maggie Li (Wide Eyed Editions)

Who is in the Egg? by Alexandra Milton (Boxer Books)

Who Makes a Forest? by Sally Nicholls, Carolina Rabei (Anderson Press)

Why Do Things Die? by Katie Daynes, Christine Pym (Usborne)

Wild Weather by Emily Bone, Bao Luu (Usborne)

Age 8 - 12

Amazing Discoveries of 100 Brilliant Scientists by Abigail Wheatley, Leonard Dupond (Usborne)

Big Ideas for Young Thinkers by Jamia Wilson, Andrea Pippins (White Lion)

How Art Works by Sarah Hull, Various illustrators (Usborne)

How Many Mice Make an Elephant? by Tracey Turner, Aaron Cushley (Pan Macmillan)

I Am Not a Label by Cerrie Burnell, Lauren Mark Baldo (Wide Eye Editions)

Question Everything: An Investigator’s Toolkit by Susan Martineau, Vicky Barker (b small publishing)

The Missing by Michael Rosen (Walker Books)

This is Our World Tracey by Turner Asa Gilland (Pan Macmillan)

Wild City by Ben Hoare, Lucy Rose (Pan Macmillan)

Youthquake by Tom Adams, Sarah Walsh (Nosy Crow)

Age 13 - 16

Black and British by David Olusoga (Pan Macmillan)

Come on Life by Nikki Lilly (Walker Books)

Economics for Beginners by Andrew Prentice, Federico Mariani (Usborne)

Fake News by Tom Jackson, Cristina Guitian (QED Publishing)

Have Pride by Stella Caldwell (Welbeck Publishing)

This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell, Aurélia Durand (Frances Lincoln)

Timelines from Black History by DK and Mireille (DK)

Vegan Do It by Charlotte Willis, Anna Seixas (Hachette)

Yes, You Can by Natasha Devon (Pan Macmillan)

The shortlist will be announced in early June, along with the release of accompanying activities that can be easily implemented in a school library or classroom setting. These will be available at a discounted price from Peters.

Voting for the Children's Choice will also open with the shortlist announcement in June.

The winners will be announced in a virtual ceremony in November.