Children’s Book Award 2025 Resources
Watch the ceremony
A recording of the 2024 ceremony at the Novotel Birmingham Centre on 8th June can be viewed here.
Pick of the Year
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 will be able to view the full list here soon.
Read, Review and Respond
We hope you have fun reading and talking about the books on this year’s Children’s Book Award shortlists.
The notes for each book are designed to help you to engage your child or children with the books in a variety of ways, to encourage them to write reviews and to get them responding creatively.
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Although there are many local children’s book awards around the country, the Federation of Children’s Book Groups’ Children’s Book Award is the only national award that is voted for entirely by children at all stages.
Downloadable Resources
Portfolios
As well as deciding which book to vote for in their age-relevant category, we would like children to respond to their favourite books on paper. The children’s votes submitted via our local book groups and online will decide on the three category winners, as well as the overall winner. In addition to the prizes awarded by the Federation of Children’s Book Groups, each author and illustrator will be presented with a professionally bound portfolio of children’s work, which the book creators always love to receive. Responses can take a variety of forms including pictures of characters or favourite scenes, reviews, letters to the author or illustrator, ideas about what might happen next, alternative endings or book covers, images of displays or artefacts inspired by the books, story maps, graphic story boards, poetry or fan fiction.
Responses can be submitted by email here or contact us to find out how to submit paper responses by post. Contributions should be submitted to arrive by Friday 9th May at the latest.