Sainsburys Children's Book Awards 2018

The shortlist for the fifth Sainsbury's Children's Book Award has been announced and includes nominations for the best baby and toddler books, picture books, fiction, learning and development titles and favourite characters.

The winners of the 2018 awards will be announced on 29th August alongside the 'Sainsbury's Children's Classic' award - an accolade celebrating a book which has brought joy to generations of children and that parents will have grown up reading. 15 books have been nominated for this year's awards across the five categories. Popular authors including Ed Vere, Abi Elphinstone and Garth Jennings have made the cut alongside characters from Pokemon and Peppa Pig. The full shortlist is as follows: Baby and Toddler Are You There Little Fox? by Sam Taplin, illustrated by Emily Dove (Usborne) Norman's New Shell by Paul Linnet, illustrated by Sue Hendra (Simon & Schuster) My Magical Unicorn illustrated by Yujin Shin (Campbell/Macmillan) Picture Books 100 Dogs by Michael Whaite (Penguin Random House) How to Be a Lion by Ed Vere (Penguin Random House) The Wildest Cowboy by Garth Jennings, illustrated by Sara Ogilvie (Macmillan) Fiction Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend (Orion) Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone (Simon and Schuster) The Nothing to See Here Hotel by Steven Butler, illustrated by Steven Lenton (Simon and Schuster) Learning and Development Fantastically Great Women Who Made History by Kate Pankhurst (Bloomsbury) The Book of Comparisons by Clive Gifford, illustrated by Paul Boston (Ivy Kids) You Are Awesome by Matthew Syed, illustrated by Toby Triumph (Wren & Rook/Hachette Children's Books) Favourite Characters Big Stickers for Tiny Hands: PJ Masks (Pat-a-Cake/Hodder and Stoughton) Peppa's Magical Unicorn (Ladybird/Penguin Random House) Pokemon 1001 Sticker Book (Orchard Books/Hachette Children's Books)