Booktrust Early Years Awards
The Booktrust have recently announced their shortlists for their annual Early Years Awards. The aim of the awards is to celebrate, reward and publicise the exciting range of children’s books, specifically aimed for pre-school children. These are the books which are hotly tipped to be making an appearence on children’s bookshelves this year.
There are three categories;
Best book for babies, under one-year-old.
Best picture book for pre-school children up to five years of age.
Best emerging illustrator of a book for pre-school children up to five years of age.
A panel of judges, that include Radio One presenter, Edith Bowman, and Bookstart founder, Wendy Cooling MBE, will decide on the winners. Each of which will receive £2,000 and the emerging illustrator will also receive a specially commissioned award by a leading illustrator.
On being included in the panel for the first time, Bowman spoke of her excitement and relevance of the awards to herself. “‘I’m over the moon to be involved in the Booktrust Early Years Awards – the timing couldn’t be better. I love nothing better than getting home from work and reading my little boy a bedtime story before bed. I can see the importance of words and pictures, colours and story already in him and the reaction you get is quite mesmerising. So together Rudy and I plan to spend a great deal of time reading all the wonderful entries.’ she said.
THE SHORTLISTED
Baby Book Award;
Chick by Ed Vere (Puffin)
The Big Night-Night Book by Georgie Birkett (Red Fox)
Baby Loves: Tiger by Claire Dowe (Scholastic)
Five Little Ducks by Francesca Stich & Jemima Lumley, illus. Jason Chapman (Simon & Schuster)
Baby’s Very First Outdoors Book by Stella Baggott (Usborne)
That’s Not My Frog by Fiona Watt, illus. Rachel Wells (Usborne)
Pre-School Award;
If I Were You by Richard Hamilton, illus. Babette Cole (Bloomsbury)
Oliver Who Travelled Far and Wide by Mara Bergman, illus. Nick Maland (Hodder Children’s)
Sylvia and Bird by Catherine Rayner (Little Tiger Press)
Wow! Said the Owl by Tim Hopgood (Macmillan)
The Tail of the Whale by Ellie Patterson, illus. Christine Pym (Meadowside)
Miaow Said the Cow by Emma Dodd (Templar Publishing)
Best Emerging Illustrator;
The Grump by Sarah Garson (Andersen Press)
Toot Toot Beep Beep by Emma Garcia (Boxer Books)
Box of Tricks by Katie Cleminson (Jonathan Cape)
Small Mouse Big City by Simon Prescott (Little Tiger Press)
The Haunted House by Kazuno Kohara (Macmillan)
Peas! by Andy Cullen, illus. Simon Rickerty (Puffin Books)
The winners will be announced on the 23rd of September
Popularity: 3% [?]
Similar childrens storage news:
[...] other news the Booktrust have deliberated on their Early Years Awards, which we mentioned on the blog, and have announced the [...]