UKLA Book Awards 2021 longlists announced
Posted on Tuesday, October 6, 2020
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The longlists for the UKLA Book Awards, which focus on encouraging teachers' knowledge of high-quality children's books and to reflect all identities and promote diversity, has been announced.
Here are the Longlists in full:
Longlist 3-6+
Under the Great Plum Tree by Sufiya Ahmed, illus Reza Dalvand (Tiny Owl)
I Am Brown by Ashok Banker, illus Sandya Prabhat (Lantana Publishing)
Sofia Valdez, Future Prez by Andrea Beatty, illus David Roberts (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
The Worrysaurus by Rachel Bright, illus Chris Chatterton (Orchard Books)
Look Up! by Nathan Bryon, illus Dapo Adeola (Puffin)
Mr Gumpy's Rhino by John Burningham (Jonathan Cape)
Hello Friend by Rebecca Cobb (Macmillan)
No Longer Alone by Joseph Coehlo, illus Robyn Wilson- Owen (Egmont)
Fair Shares by Pippa Goodhart, illus Anna Doherty (Tiny Owl)
Rabbit & Bear - A Bite in the Night by Julian Gough, illus Jim Field (Hodder)
Where Happiness Begins by Eva Eland (Andersen Press)
Brenda is a Sheep by Morag Hood (Two Hoots)
The Last Tiger by Petr Horacek (Otter- Barry Books)
The Fate of Fausto by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins)
My Hair by Hannah Lee, illus Allen Fatimarahan (Faber & Faber)
My Friend Earth by Patricia Maclachlan, illus Francesca Sanna (Chronicle Books)
The Misadventures of Frederick by Ben Manley, illus Emma Chichester Clark (Two Hoots)
Tibble and Grandpa by Wendy Meddour, illus Daniel Egneus (Oxford)
Umbrella by Elena Arevalo Melville (Scallywag Press)
I'm Not (Very) Afraid of the Dark by Anna Milbourne, illus Daniel Riley (Usborne)
It's a No Money Day by Kate Milner (Barrington Stoke)
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o, illus Vashti Harrison (Puffin)
Hey Water, by Antoinette Portis (Scallywag Press)
One Fox: A Counting Thriller by Kate Read (Two Hoots)
How About a Night Out? by Sam Williams (Boxer Books)
Longlist 7-10+
The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson (Usborne)
Too Small Tola by Atinuke, illus Onyinye Iwu (Walker Books)
The Space We're In by Katya Balen, illus Laura Carlin (Bloomsbury)
A Pocketful of Starsby Aisha Busby (Egmont)
The Somerset Tsunami by Emma Carroll (Faber & Faber)
Saving Winslow by Sharon Creech (Guppy Books)
Talking to the Moon by S.E Durrant (Nosy Crow)
The Girl Who Stole an Elephant by Nizrana Farook (Nosy Crow)
Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror by Natasha Farrant, illus Lydia Corry (Zephyr)
Check Mates by Stewart Foster (Simon & Schuster)
The Highland Falcon Thief by M.G Leonard and Sam Sedgeman, illus Elisa Paganelli (Macmillan)
Eagle Warrior by Gill Lewis (Barrington Stoke)
The Time of Green Magic by Hilary McKay (Macmillan)
The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty, illus Karl James Mountford (Guppy Books)
Lori and Max by Catherine OFlynn (Firefly Press)
The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates by Jenny Pearson, illus Rob Biddulph (Usborne)
The Star Outside My Window by Onjali Q Rauf (Orion)
Patina by Jason Reynolds, illus Selom Sunu (Knights of)
The Cloudhorse Chronicles - Guardians of Magic by Chris Riddell (Macmillan)
The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell, illus Matt Saunders (Bloomsbury)
Clean Getaway by Nic Stone (Knights Of)
Owen and the Soldier by Lisa Thompson, illus Mark Lowery (Barrington Stoke)
Longlist 11- 14+
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (Hot Key Books)
Black Flamingo by Dean Attaillustrated and Anishka Khullar (Hodder)
The M Word by Brian Conaghan (Bloomsbury)
Furious Thing by Jenny Downham (David Fickling Books)
The Last Paper Crane by Kerry Drewery, illus Natsko Seki (Hot Key Books)
Sofa Surfer by Malcolm Duffy (Zephyr)
On Midnight Beach by Marie Louise Fitzpatrick (Faber & Faber)
Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner (Zephyr)
Bearmouth by Liz Hyder (Pushkin)
And the Stars Were Burning Brightly by Danielle Jawando (Simon & Schuster)
A House Without Walls by Elizabeth Laird (Macmillan)
Run Rebel by Manjeet Mann (Penguin)
Burn by Patrick Ness (Walker Books)
Gloves Off by Louisa Reid Guppy Books
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds (Knights Of)
Snowflake AZ by Marcus Sedgwick (Zephyr)
The Boxer by Nikesh Shukla (Hodder)
The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead (Andersen Press)
Hello Now by Jenny Valentine (HarperCollins)
The Enigma Game by Elizabeth Wein (Bloomsbury)
Information Books 3-14+
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander, illus Kadir Nelson (Andersen Press)
Balloon to the Moon by Gill Arbuthnott, illus Chris Nielsen (Big Picture Press)
Africa, Amazing Africa by Atinuke, illus Mouni Feddag (Walker Books)
Gut Garden by Katie Brosnan (Cicada Books)
Nose Knows by Emanuelle Figueras, illus Claire De Gastold (What on Earth Publishing)
We Are Artists by Kari Herbert (Thames & Hudson)
River Stories by Timothy Knapman, illus Asling Lindsay and Irene Montano (Egmont)
A Planet Full of Plastic by Neal Layton (Wren & Rook)
The Apartment by Alexandra Litvina, illus Anna Desnitskaya, translated by Antonina Bouis (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
Humanimal by Christopher Lloyd, illus Mark Ruffle (What on Earth Publishing)
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall, illus Grace Easton and Jessica Smith (Simon & Schuster)
Who is in the Egg? by Alexandra by Milton (Boxer Books)
Corpse Talk: Rebels by Adam Murphyand Lisa Murphy (David Fickling Books)
Planet SOS by Marie G Rhodes (What on Earth Publishing)
Rise Up! The Art of Protest by Joanne Rippon (Palazzo Editions)
The Missingby Michael Rosen (Walker Books)
Hidden Planet by Ben Rothery (Ladybird)
Exquisite: The Life and Poetry of Gwendoline Brooksby Suzanne Slade, illus Cozbi Cabrera (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
Language of the Universe by Colin Stuart, illus Ximo Abadia (Big Picture Press)
Along the Tapajos by Fernando Vilela, translated by Daniel Hahn (Amazon Crossing Kids)
Children Who Changed the World by Marcia Williams (Walker Books)
Big Ideas for Young Thinkers by Jamia Wilson, illus by Andrea Pippins (Wide Eyed Editions)
Big Book of Blooms by Yuval Zommer (Thames & Hudson)
