Children’s Book Award 2024
The Children’s Book Award Top 10 2024
The full shortlist is as follows:
Books for Younger Children
Gigantic, written and illustrated by Rob Biddulph, published by Harper Collins
The Big Dreaming, written by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Daniel Egneus, published by Bloomsbury
The Fastest Tortoise in Town, written by Howard Calvert and illustrated by Karen Obuhanych, published by Walker Books
The Princess and the (Greedy) Pea, written and illustrated by Leigh Hodgkinson, published by Walker Books
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Books for Younger Readers
Adventure Mice: Otter Chaos, written by Philip Reeve and illustrated by Sarah McIntyre, published by David Fickling Books
Marv and the Killer Plants, written by Alex Falase-Koya and illustrated by Paula Bowles, published by OUP
Press Start! Game On, Super Rabbit Boy!, written and illustrated by Thomas Flintham, published by Nosy Crow
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Books for Older Readers
Code Name Kingfisher, written by Liz Kessler, published by Simon & Schuster
Deadlock, written by Simon Fox, published by Nosy Crow
The Final Year, written by Matt Goodfellow and illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton, published by Otter Barry Books
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Buy the books
Once again we have partnered with Heath’s Books to offer a discount on all of the Pick of the Year books including the Top Ten.
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Voting
Once you have read all the books in your chosen category you can vote through your book group or online through the Children’s Book Award resources page