Longlist 3-6+
Title | Author | Illustrator | Translator | Imprint |
When Sadness Came to call | Eland, Eva | Andersen Press | ||
Splash Day | Sharratt, Nick | Barrington Stoke | ||
I Can Fly | Kuo, Fifi | Boxer Books | ||
The Hug | McLaughlin, Eoin | Dunbar, Polly | Faber & Faber | |
If all the World were… | Coehlo, Joseph | Colpoys, Allison | Frances Lincoln | |
The Visitor | Damm, Antje | Spencer,Sally-Ann | Gecko Press | |
Tad | Davies, Benji | Harper Collins | ||
Amazing | Antony, Steve | Hodder | ||
Mixed | Chung, Aree | Macmillan | ||
I Am a Tiger | Newson, Karl | Collins, Ross | Macmillan | |
What Does an Anteater eat? | Collins, Ross | Nosy Crow | ||
The Suitcase | Naylor-Ballesteros, Chris | Nosy Crow | ||
The Rabbit, The Dark and the Biscuit Tin | O’Byrne, Nicola | Nosy Crow | ||
Lubna and Pebble | Meddour, Wendy | Egneus, Daniel | Oxford | |
Red and the City | Voight, Marie | Oxford | ||
How to be a Lion | Vere, Ed | Puffin | ||
The Wall in the Middle of the Book | Agee, John | Scallywag Press | ||
How to Light Your Dragon | Levy, Didier | Benaglia, Fred | Thames & Hudson | |
Cyril and Pat | Gravett, Emily | Two Hoots | ||
The Day War Came | Davies, Nicola | Cobb, Rebecca | Walker Books | |
Julian is a Mermaid | Love, Jessica | Walker Books | ||
Longlist 7-10+
Title | Author | Illustrator | Translator | Imprint |
Slick | Vaughan, M.M | Alma Books | ||
#Goldilocks | Willis, Jeanne | Ross, Tony | Andersen Press | |
Race to the Frozen North | Johnson, Catherine | Hickey, Katie | Barrington Stoke | |
Run Wild | Lewis, Gill | Barrington Stoke | ||
Armistice Runner | Palmer, Tom | Barrington Stoke | ||
The Boy Who Hit Play | Daykin, Chloe | Faber & faber | ||
High Rise Mystery | Jackson, Sharna | Knights of | ||
The Runaway Robot | Boyce, Frank Cottrell | Lenton, Steven | Macmillan | |
The Middler | Applebaum, Kirsty | Nosy Crow | ||
The Boy at the Back of the Class | Rauf, Onjali Q | Orion | ||
Corey’s Rock | Brahmachari, Sita | Ray, Jane | Otter-Barry Books | |
A Kid in My Class | Rooney, Rachel | Riddell, Chris | Otter-Barry Books | |
The Legend of Kevin | Reeve, Philip | McIntyre, Sarah | Oxford | |
The Eleventh Trade | Hollingsworth, Alyssa | Piccadilly | ||
The Lost Magician | Torday Piers | Quercus | ||
The Star-Spun Webb | O’Hart, Sinead | Stripes | ||
The Phoenix of Persia | Clayton, Sally Pomme | Sharif ,Amin Hassanzadeh | Tiny Owl | |
The Dog Who Lost His Bark | Colfer, Eoin | Lynch, P.J | Walker Books | |
Cloud Boy | Williams, Marcia | Walker Books | ||
The Dam | Almond, David | Pinfold, Levi | Walker Books | |
A Year of Nature Poems | Coehlo, Joseph | Judd, Kelly Louise | Wide Eyed Editions |
Longlist 11-14+
Title | Author | Illustrator | Translator | Imprint |
Monsters | Dogar, Sharon | Andersen Press | ||
No Fixed Address | Nielsen, Susin | Andersen Press | ||
Pay Attention Carter Jones | Schmidt, Gary D | Andersen Press | ||
One Shot | Landman, Tanya | Barrington Stoke | ||
Lark | McGowan, Anthony | Barrington Stoke | ||
Weight of a Thousand Feathers | Conaghan, Brian | Bloomsbury | ||
Toffee | Crossan, sarah | Bloomsbury | ||
Gifted, talented and Me | Sutcliff, William | Bloomsbury | ||
The Key to Flambards | Newbery, Linda | David Fickling Books | ||
Bone Talk | Gourlay, Candy | David Fickling Books | ||
Ghost | Reynolds, jason | Knights Of | ||
The Skylark’s War | McKay, Hilary | Macmillan | ||
Everything All At Once | Camden, Steve | Macmillan | ||
Catching Teller Crow | Kwaymullina, Ambelin | Puffin | ||
Lenny’s Book of Everything | Foxlee,Karen | Pushkin Press | ||
Lampie and the Children of the Sea | Schaap, Annet | Watkinson, Laura | Pushkin Press | |
The Burning | Bates, laura | Simon & Schuster | ||
And the Ocean was our Sky | Ness, Patrick | Walker Books | ||
Louis Undercover | Britt, Fanny | Arsenault, Isabelle | Walker Studio |
Information Books
Title | Author | Illustrator | Translator | Imprint |
When the Stars Come Out | Edwards, Nicola | Cartwright, Lucy | 360 Degrees | |
Born to Ride | Theule, Larissa | Garrity-Riley, Kelsey | Abrams Books for Young Readers | |
Mary and Frankenstein | Bailey, Linda | Sardὰ,Jũlia | Andersen Press | |
Once Upon a Raindrop | Carter, James | Nomoco | Caterpillar books | |
Child of St Kilda | Waters, Beth | Childs Play | ||
The Lost Book of Adventure | Keen, Teddy | Frances Lincoln | ||
The Element in the Room | Barfield, Mike | Humphrey, Lauren | Laurence King Publishing | |
A Book of Bears | Viggers, Katie | Laurence King Publishing | ||
Counting on Katherine | Becker, Helaine | Phumiruk, Dow | Macmillan | |
Free to be Me | Dom & Ink | Penguin | ||
On the Origin of Species | Radeva, Sabina | Puffin | ||
Questions I am Asked about the Holocaust | Fried, Heidi | Scribe | ||
A History of Pictures for Children | Hockney,David and Gayford, Martin | Blake, Rose | Thames & Hudson | |
Bright Sparks | O’Doherty, Owen | The O’Brien Press | ||
Life: The First Four Billion Years | Jenkins,Martin | Baker-Smith, Grahame | Walker Studio | |
Absolutely Everything | Lloyd, Christopher | Forshaw, Andy | What on Earth Publishing | |
Eye Spy: Wild Ways Animals See the World | Duprat,Guillaume | What on Earth Publishing | ||
Boy oh Boy | Leek, Cliff | Rohlmann, Bene | Wide Eyed Editions |
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