Oh my lord, it’s tonight. Oh my WORD, it’s NOW! Cannot wait to celebrate the #BritishBookAwards this evening - especially the children’s illustrated book award which I had so much fun helping to judge! Going red and gold for the sheer giddy heck of it #Nibbies

Yet another glorious shortlist! The “best contemporary poetry for children” is very VERY good indeed. The kids who get to hear and read this magic stuff are lucky - and CLPE are so brilliant at flying the poetry flag!

The Oscar's Book Prize winner 2024 is When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth by Sean Taylor and Zehra Hicks!

The judges have introduced the brilliant shortlist - and now the moment of truth…Oscar's Book Prize

Met Gala, pah! I’m all about the Oscar’s (Book Prize) for Sheer Glamour…But seriously, WHAT a shortlist! Such a demonstration of just what picture books can do Oscar's Book Prize

May 📚✨ from Uma Menon Rahele Bell Sarah Tagholm Nicky Smith-Dale 🍄 Sarah Horne Shaw Davidson Paula Franco Illustration Sarah Chavez Walker Picture Books Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚 Joseph Coelho is laureating! Manon Steffan Ros Lucy Strange Theo Parish Holly Jackson Nathanael Lessore Sharada Keats 📕 theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Beside myself over the STUNNERS on this shortlist. I. MEAN. !!!

Gloriously grim, melancholically meandering - could not have been more of a joy to celebrate 25 years of Unfortunate Events!

VERY much looking forward to looking back! Looking back, that is, over 25 years of Unfortunate Events with Lemony Snicket - or possibly Daniel Handler - at Waterstones Piccadilly, London this evening. Can’t wait! waterstones.com/events/lemony-…

SO excited to announce our 2024 shortlists for
1. Jhalak Prize
and
2. Jhalak C&YA Prize

Congratulations to all our shortlistees!
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Do you have a favourite fantasy novel? That's the question we asked some of our patrons & supporters. Here are their replies: bit.ly/3VYwzlG SF Said Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 Abi Elphinstone #PeterBunzl Dr Nazneen Ahmed Pathak #KieranLarwood Salman Rushdie #KatherineRundell #AlakePilgrim

Absolutely brilliant report from National Literacy Trust into the impact that reading comics can have on children, saying (prepares to shout from rooftops):
CHILDREN WHO READ COMICS IN THEIR FREE TIME ARE ALMOST TWICE AS LIKELY TO SAY THAT THEY ENJOY READING THAN THOSE WHO DON'T

March kids 📚✨Jyoti Rajan Gopal AMERICAN DESI Tom Percival Richard Jones Diana Ejaita Stephanie Stansbie George Clarke Robert Sae-Heng Nicola Baker 💙 Katherine Woodfine Piu DasGupta 🐍💎 Clare Pollard Struan Murray Clare Furniss Sarah Crossan Christen Randall Nevin Holness
theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

📢 Drumroll, please! 🥁 We are thrilled to unveil the much-anticipated shortlists for the #YotoCarnegies24 ! 📚🌟 Congratulations to all the incredible authors and illustrators who made it in to this esteemed lineup.

Read the full announcement: yotocarnegies.co.uk/2024-shortlist…

Delighted to announce the longlist for Jhalak Children's and Young Adult Prize 2024

Each of these books is a literary gem, to be admired, loved and treasured forever.

Huge gratitude to the writers, creatives, publishers for bringing us this treasure trove!
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And the Gold Prize,
the first Nero Awards Book of the Year, goes to The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray!
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And here is Bernadine Evaristo, Chair of judges, to announce the big one…
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Winner, Children’s Fiction: beth lincoln (updates only) for THE SWIFTS
(and WHAT a shortlist, every one a barnstormer!)
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Winner, Fiction Category:
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
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