Children’s Book Award 2022

On Monday we announced our TOP TEN books as voted on solely by children across the UK.  Every vote counts and as they were tallied up, a shortlist of ten titles was created.  We are so excited to share a bit more about each title throughout the month of March as we kick off our Children’s Book Award Blog Tour!

We have ten special bloggers all lined up and some exciting content from the creators of these shortlisted titles.  We want to thank the publishers for all their support in making this blog tour happen!  We also want to thank the bloggers for their time and energy!

The Children’s Book Award is the only national award voted for solely by children from start to finish. It is highly regarded by parents, teachers, librarians, publishers and children’s authors and illustrators as it represents the children’s choice. Thanks to the support of the publishers, around 800 new fiction titles are donated to be read and reviewed by local FCBG groups across the country every year. This year approx 50,000 total votes were cast, and we expect many thousands more to come in for the Top 10. At the end of each testing year, many of the books are donated to hospitals, women’s refuges, nurseries and disadvantaged schools by our groups.

There wasn’t an award in 2021 – the challenges of getting books out to the child judges in lockdowns meant the award did not run last year. Therefore, this year’s award celebrates the most popular books from 2020 and 2021 so no one misses out.

Our Top Ten comprises of Picture Books, Younger Readers and Older Readers.  Voting will open online soon- parents and guardians, this is not for you!  It is only for CHILDREN!!  Voting will remain open until the 27th of May.

If you are keen to get involved with your children, Heath Books have these books ready for purchase via the link below!

The winner of the Books for Younger Children category in 2020 was The Runaway Pea by written by Kjartan Poskitt and illustrated by Alex Willmore

The winner of the Books for Younger Readers category in 2020 was Mutant Zombies Cursed my School Trip written by Matt Brown and illustrated by Paco Sordo

The winner of the Books for Older Readers category in 2020 was D-Day Dog by Tom Palmer

And the overall winner was D-Day Dog by Tom Palmer!