WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE

The Waterstones Children's Book Prize is an annual award, voted for by Waterstones booksellers and divided into three categories: Illustrated Books, Younger Fiction and Older Fiction. The Waterstones Children's Book Prize Website.

2021 Waterstones Children's Book Prize Winners (Announced 1st July 2021)

Best Book for Younger Readers and Overall Waterstones Children's Book of the Year: A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll

Best Illustrated Book: The Grumpy Fairies by Bethan Stevens

Best Book for Older Readers: Wranglestone by Darren Charlton

The Klaus Flugge Prize 

The Klaus Flugge Prize is, awarded to the most promising and exciting newcomer to children’s picture book illustration. It honours publisher Klaus Flugge, a supremely influential figure in picture books who, over his long career nurtured many top illustrators including David McKee, Tony Ross, Ruth Brown, Satoshi Kitamura and Chris Riddell.

2020 Klaus Flugge Winner

When Sadness Comes to Call by Eva Eland

2021 Klaus Flugg Winner (announced 22nd September 2021)

Gustavo, the Shy Ghost by Flavia Z. Drago

COSTA BOOK AWARDS

An annual award to recognise the enjoyment of reading judged by a panel of expert across the industry. Costa Book Awards Website.

2020 Costa Book Award Winner

The 2020 Costa Children's Book award was won by Voyage of the Sparrowhawk - Natasha Farrant

Shortlist announced end November 2021

Category Winners announced early January 2022

Costa Book of the Year announced end of January 2022

CILIP CARNEGIE AND KATE GREENAWAY MEDALS

The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded annually by CILIP for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people. The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded annually by CILIP for a book with exceptional illustrations.

Books are nominated by CILIP members plus external bodies such as Booktrust, CLPE, National Literacy Trust and more. After nominations are published, each book is read by every member of the judging panel − 14 children's and youth librarians representing all regions of CILIP's Youth Libraries Group. From these nominations the judging panel will decide the long and shortlists and finally, the 2020 Medal winners, based on the official medals criteria. 

2020 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Winners

2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal: Lark by Anthony McGowan

2020 Kate Greenaway Medal: Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan

2021 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Winners (Announced 16th June 2021)

2021 CILIP Cargegie Medal:
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds

2021 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal: Small in the City by Sydney Smith

2021 Shadowers' Choice Carnegie: Run, Rebel by Manjeet Mann

2021 Shadowers' Choice Kate Greenaway: Starbird by Sharon King-Chai

BRITISH BOOK AWARDS

The British Book Awards (aka The Nibbies) is the most important awards for the trade and has been running since 1990. Alongside traditional categories such as fiction and non-fiction there are also awards for best bookshop, best publisher and more. Since 2019, Children's Book of the Year prize has been split into two for Fiction and Non-Fiction/Illustrated. 

2021 British Book Awards Winners (Announced 13th May 2021)

British Book Awards Children's Fiction Book of the Year was The Highland Falcon Thief by M.G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman

British Book Awards Children's Illustrated/ Non-Fiction Book of the Year was Black and British by David Olusoga

FCBG CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD

This is the only national award voted solely by children. Members of the Federation of Children's Book Groups vote on the longlist and then any children can vote on the shortlist. There are three categories: Books for Younger Children, Books for Younger Readers and Books for Older Readers. FCBG Website.

2020 FCBG Children's Book Award Winners (Announced 10th October 2020)

2020 Overall Winner: D-Day Dog by Tom Palmer

Book for Younger Children: The Runaway Pea by Kjartan Poskitt and Alex Willmore

Book for Younger Readers: Mutant Zombies Cursed My School Trip, by Matt Brown, illustrated by Paco Sordo

Book for Older Readers:On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

BLUE PETER AWARDS

The Blue Peter Awards are an annual celebration of the best authors, the most creative illustrators and the greatest reads for children. The 2020 Blue Peter Awards judges Meryl Fernandes, Joseph Coelho and Jean Menzies, will choose the shortlist and then children read the titles and vote for their favourites. 

2021 Blue Peter Awards Winners

Blue Peter Best Story: A Kind of Spark - Elle McNicoll

Blue Peter Best Book with Facts: A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You - Mike Barnfield & Jess Bradley

LOLLIES (LAUGH OUT LOUD AWARDS)

Three separate awards determined by age group, created to celebrate the very funniest and most engaging books in children’s fiction. A panel of experts vote on the Longlist and then children can vote on the shortlist. The panel was chaired by Michael Rosen in 2020.

2020 Lollies Winners

Announced on 6th February 2020.

Best Laugh Out Loud Picture Book: Ten Fat Sausages by Michelle Robinson and Tor Freeman

Best Laugh Out Loud Book for 6-8s: The World's Worst Children 3 by David Walliams, illustrated by Tony Ross

Best Laugh Out Loud Book for 9-13s: I Bet I Can Make you Laugh by Joshua Seigal and Friends, illustrated by Tom Wesson

2022 Lollies Key Dates

Shortlist announcement

Vote now

2020 BRANFORD BOASE AWARD

An annual award for an outstanding first novel to a first time writer of a book for young people. Judged by a team of industry experts.

2020 Branford Boase Winner

The winner of the 2020 Branford Boase award was Bearmouth by Liz Hyder

2021 Branford Boase Winner (announced 15th July 2021)

The winner of the  2021 Branford Boase award was Orphans of the Tide by Struan Murray

2020 SAINSBURYS CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARDS

Now in its seventh year, the Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards (run with Booktrust) aims to celebrate some of the best titles in children's publishing. Winners are chosen by a panel of experts.

2020 Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards Winners

Activity Book: Draw With Rob by Rob Biddulph

Baby and Toddler: Don't Tickle the Dinosaur by Sam Taplin, illustrated by Ana Martin Larranaga

Favourite Characters:Oi See it! Say it! by Kes Gray, illustrated by Jim Field

Fiction: Anisha, Accidental Detective by Serena Patel, illustrated by Emma McCann

Learning & Development: Do You Love Bugs? by Matt Robertson

Picture Book:Mabel and the Mountain by Kim Hillyard

Children's Classic: Where's Spot by Eric Hill

Book of the Year and Best Picture Book: The Littlest Yak by Lu Fraser, illustrated by Kate Hindley

Activity book: Let's Go For A Walk by Ranger Hamza, illustrated by Kate Kronreif

Baby & Toddler: Sometimes Babies... by Charlotte Trounce

Learning & Development: You are a Champion by Marcus Rashford and Carl Anka

Fiction: Twitch by M.G. Leonard

License: Minecraft Epic Bases: 12 mind-blowing builds to spark your imagination by Mojan AB

Children's Classic: Fox's Socks a lift-the-flap book by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler

The little rebels children's book award

The Little Rebels Children’s Book Award is a prize for radical fiction aimed at children aged 0-12. 

The award is given by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers and was established in conjunction with Letterbox Library.

2020 Little Rebels Award

The winner of the 2020 Little Rebels Children's Book Award was The Boy Who Loved Everyone by Jane Porter and Maisie Paradise Shearring

Key Dates for 2021

Shortlist Announced

Little Rebels Children's Book Award Winner (announced 8th September 2021)

The winner of the 2021 Little Rebels Children's Book Award was Boy, Everywhere by A. M. Dassu

YA BOOK PRIZE

Annual award to the best young adult book written by an author living in the UK or Ireland. Judged by a panel of industry experts. The winner of the 2021 YA Book Prize was Loveless by Alice Oseman. A Special Achievement Award was given to Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman. Previous winners have been Juno Dawson's Meat Market (2020); Sara Barnard's Goodbye, Perfect (2019); Will Hill's After the Fire (2018); Patrice Lawrence's Orangeboy (2017); Sarah Crossan's One (2016); Only Ever Yours (2015).

Longlist 2021 | Shortlist 2021 | Winners announced June 2021

jhalak prize

First awarded in March 2017, the Jhalak Prize and its new sister award Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize founded in 2020, seek to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers. 

2021 Children's & YA Award

The winner of the Children's & YA award was Eight Pieces of Silva by Patrice Lawrence

The Royal society young people's book prize

The Young People's Book Prize aims to promote literacy in young people and to inspire them to read about science. It also supports the writing of excellent, accessible STEM books for under-14s. 

The winner is selected by judging panels made up of young people at schools across the country from a shortlist curated by an adult judging panel. 

The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2020 Winner 

The winner of the 2020 The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize was Cats React to Science Facts by Izzi Howell

Key Dates for 2021

Shortlist Announcement: 14th September 2021

Winners Announcement: November 2021

FOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR 

Famous independent bookseller Foyles chooses its Books of the Year in three categories: fiction, non-fiction and children's. The books are chosen through a combination of Foyles bestsellers, staff vote and reader response.

2020 Foyles Children's Book of the Year

The winner of the 2020 Foyles Children's Book of the Year was The Wolf's Secret by Nicolas Digard & Myriam Dahman, illustrated by Julia Sarda Portabella

Dates for the 2021 awards are TBC

information book award school library association

The SLA Information Book Award is an annual event celebrating information books, and is designed to support school libraries and to reinforce the importance of non-fiction whilst highlighting the high standard of resources available.

The first award ceremony took place in 2011. 

Key dates for 2021

Longlist announced

Shortlist announced

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

The winners will be announced in a virtual ceremony to take place in November.