Longlist 12-16+
| Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher |
| All the Truth That’s In Me | Julie Berry | Templar | |
| The Ultimate Truth: Travis Delaney Investigates | Kevin Brooks | Macmillan | |
| Bird | Crystal Chan | Tamarind Books | |
| Ghost Hawk | Susan Cooper | Bodley Head | |
| Looking at the Stars | Jo Cotterill | Bodley Head | |
| Vango | Timothéede FombelleTranslated by Sarah Ardizzone | Walker Books | |
| Wierdosvs Quimboids | Natasha Desborough, | Catnip Publishing | |
| The Bubble Wrap Boy | Phil Earle, | Puffin | |
| After Iris: The Diaries of Bluebell Gadsby: | Natasha Farrant | Faber & Faber | |
| Blood Family | Anne Fine | Doubleday | |
| The Year of the Rat | Clare Furniss | Simon and Schuster | |
| Why We Took the Car | Wolfgang Herrndorf Translated by Tim Mohr | Andersen Press | |
| Buffalo Soldier | Tanya Landman | Walker Books | |
| Every Day | David Levithan | Egmont | |
| Brock | Anthony McGowan, | Barrington Stoke | |
| More Than This | Patrick Ness | Walker Books | |
| Close Your Pretty Eyes | Sally Nicholls | Scholastic | |
| The Dead Men Stood Together | Chris Priestley | Bloomsbury | |
| Picture Me Gone | Meg Rosoff | Puffin | |
| She Is Not Invisible | Marcus Sedgwick, | Orion | |
| Counting by 7’s | Holly Goldberg Sloan | Piccadilly Press | |
| The Story of Antigone | Ali Smith | Laura Paoletti | Pushkin Press |
| Rose Under Fire | Elizabeth Wein | Egmont |
Longlist 7-11
| Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher |
| Up for the Cup | Simon Bartram | Simon Bartram | Templar Publishing |
| Girl with a White Dog | Anne Booth | Catnip Publishing | |
| Stay Where You Are and Then Leave | John Boyne | Doubleday | |
| Us Minus Mum | Heather Butler | Little, Brown | |
| The Great Ice-Cream Heist | Elen Caldecott | Bloomsbury | |
| The Ransom Of Dond | Siobhan Dowd | Pam Smy | David Fickling Books |
| The Letter for the King | Tonke Dragt Translated by Laura Watkinson | Pushkin Press | |
| On Planet Fruitcake | Anne Fine | Kate Aldous | Egmont |
| The Amazing Tale of Ali Pasha | Michael Foreman | Michael Foreman | Templar Publishing |
| The Moonshine Dragon | Cornelia Funke, | Monica Armino | Barrington Stoke |
| Fortunately, the Milk | Neil Gaiman | Chris Riddell | Bloomsbury |
| Blackberry Blue | Jamila Gavin | Richard Collingridge | Tamarind Books |
| Cowgirl | Giancarlo Gemin | Nosy Crow | |
| Scarlet Ibis | Gill Lewis | Oxford University Press | |
| The Middle of Nowhere | Geraldine McCaughrean, | Usborne | |
| Perry Angel’s Suitcase | Glenda Millard | Stephen Michael King | Phoenix Yard Books |
| The River Singers | Tom Moorhouse | Simon Mendez | Oxford University Press |
| Oliver and the Seawigs | Philip Reeve | Sarah McIntyre | Oxford University Press |
| Choosing Crumble | Michael Rosen | Tony Ross | Andersen Press |
| PHOENIX | S.F Said | David McKean | David Fickling Books |
| Claude on the Slopes | Alex T Smith | Alex T Smith | Hodder |
| Circus of Thieves and the Raffle of Doom | William Sutcliffe | David Tazzyman | Simon and Schuster |
| Rules of Summer | Shaun Tan | Shaun Tan | Hodder |
| The Dark Wild | Piers Torday | Quercus |
Longlist 3-6
| Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher |
| Kicking a Ball | Allan Ahlberg | Sebastien Braun | Puffin |
| The Acrobat | Gabriel Alborozo | Gabriel Alborozo | Child’s Play |
| The Yes | Sarah Bee | Satoshi Kitamura | Andersen Press |
| Z is for Moose | Kelly Bingham | Paul O Zelinsky | Andersen Press |
| What if… ? | Anthony Browne | Anthony Browne | Doubleday |
| Aunt Amelia | Rebecca Cobb | Rebecca Cobb | Macmillan |
| NO! | Tracey Corderoy | Tim Warnes | Little Tiger Press |
| The Promise | Nicola Davies | Laura Carlin | Walker Books |
| The Day the Crayons Quit | Drew Daywalt | Oliver Jeffers | HarperCollins |
| MacavityI | T.S Eliot | Arthur Robins | Faber & Faber |
| Dragon Loves Penguin | Debi Gliori | Debi Gliori | Bloomsbury |
| Little Mouse’s Big Book of Beasts | Emily Gravett | Emily Gravett | Macmillan |
| Hermelin | Mini Grey | Mini Grey | Jonathan Cape |
| Shh! We Have A Plan | Chris Haughton | Chris Haughton | Walker Books |
| Zeraffa Giraffa | Dianne Hofmeyr | Jane Ray | Frances Lincoln |
| Little Answer | Tim Hopgood | Tim Hopgood | Corgi |
| Squishy McFluff: The Invisible Cat | Pip Jones | Ella Okstad | Faber & Faber |
| The Crocodile Who Didn’t Like Water | Gemma Merino | Gemma Merino | Macmillan |
| Abigail | Catherine Rayner | Catherine Rayner | Little Tiger Press |
| Mi and Museum City | Linda Sarah | Linda Sarah | Phoenix Yard Books |
| Do Not Enter The Monster Zoo | Amy Sparkes | Sarah Ogilvie | Red Fox |
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