Children’s Book Award 2024
The winners were announced at a ceremony in Birmingham with children from our testing groups and special guests Korky Paul, Winnie the Witch and Wilbur
Photographs by David Bartlett
Overall Winner of the Children’s Book Award 2024
Press Start! Game On, Super Rabbit Boy! written and illustrated by Thomas Flintham, published by Nosy Crow
Winner of the Books for Younger Children’s category
Gigantic, written and illustrated by Rob Biddulph and published by HarperCollins
Winner of the Books for Younger Readers’ category
Press Start! Game On, Super Rabbit Boy! written and illustrated by Thomas Flintham, published by Nosy Crow
Winner of the Books for Older Readers’ category
The Final Year, written by Matt Goodfellow and illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton, and published by Otter-Barry Books
Watch again
A recording of the 2024 ceremony at the Novotel Birmingham Centre on 8th June can be viewed here
Photographs by David Bartlett
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
For more details on the books click here Books for Younger Children
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
For more details on the books click here Books for Younger Readers
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
For more details on the books click here Books for Older Readers
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.
To buy any of the books individually click here
Pick of the Year 2024
As well as the shortlist, every year we produce a list of Picks of the Year – books which have also proved popular with our young readers during the testing process. You can view the whole list here
