Check out the guest blog today from Catherine Cawthorne about using Oh No, Flo and some other funny picture books with young readers! Can you remember….? Using Oh No, Flo! and other picture books for following and recalling instructions At one point, I had three children under 5 years old. Trying to get them […]
The Children’s Book Award is the only national award voted for solely by children from start to finish. This year we celebrated the Top Ten Shortlisted titles with a blog tour for each category of book. We invited bloggers to host content from the shortlisted creators in celebration of their title and the award. We […]
The Children’s Book Award blog tour has drawn to a close for 2025 and we are truly grateful to the authors for sharing their words with our fantastic team of bloggers. In case you missed this week’s incredible line up, find the links below to the four pieces for the four shortlisted titles. Grotti, […]
Check out our guest blog from Jack Noel about Dadbot, his new graphic novel! I love comics! I loved comics when I was a beautiful little boy and I love comics now I am a grisly old dad. I like comics because, well … see how boring these words are? I grew up in the […]
Welcome to the blog tour round up for the Children’s Book Award 2025. This week we celebrated the titles in the Books for Older Readers Category. We had hoped to have a guest blog from each of our shortlisted authors but unfortunately, Sam Sedgman has been on a book tour and unable to write for […]
Meet Scarlet, Defender of the Universe by James Davis! After reading, we had some interesting questions for the author about this character and the story- check out his answer’s below! Where did the idea for Scarlet and her story come from? It started as an idea about a zoo on a different planet, which […]
Every year as part of the Top Ten Announcement for the Children’s Book Award, we ask popular bloggers to host a special blog tour to celebrate the most popular books, as voted on solely by children across the UK. We launched the Top Ten shortlist on 3rd March and have a spectacular line up of […]
We love a Q&A with authors and illustrators- it gives us great insight into where their book began and how it came to be! Check out today’s with Steve Tomecek, author of The Greatest Stuff on Earth. Q&A with Steve Tomecek, author of The Greatest Stuff on Earth The Greatest Stuff on Earth is a […]
Let’s Play Rugby was co-written by Paul Howard and Gordon D’Arcy. In our blog today, Paul shares how co-authoring worked for them. Co-authoring children’s books with Gordon D’Arcy has been one of the happiest twists that my career as a writer has taken. Gordon and I actually knew each other in a previous life, long […]
The Children’s Book Award shortlist for 2025 We’re delighted to announce the Children’s Book Award 2025 shortlist today. Children from the 10 FCBG testing groups read over 600 books submitted by the publishers and registered over 55,000 votes, from which the Top 10 has been selected. The full shortlist is as follows: Books for Younger […]
