Ed Vere has won this year’s £5,000 Oscar’s Book Prize with his picture book How to be a Lion (Puffin). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House division Puffin and Bloomsbury both have two titles shortlisted for this year’s £5,000 Oscar’s Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Flemish author Bart Moeyaert is the winner of the 2019 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children’s book prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Boy at the Back of the Class is "a future classic", Waterstones Children's Book Prize judges say. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf (Hachette Children’s Books) is the winner of this year’s overall £5,000 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, beating off competition from other category winners Tomi Adeyemi, Lauren Ace and Jenny Løvlie. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors and illustrators including Tomi Adeyemi, Sophie Anderson, Jessica Love and Onjali Q. Raúf are on the shortlist for this year’s Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, which is now in its fifteenth year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction was announced today at the El-Hakawati Palestinian National Theatre in East Jerusalem. The IPAF - often referred to as the ‘Arabic Booker’ - is an annual literary prize for prose fiction, which encourages the readership of... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-02-05 16:33:45 UTC ]
A book about optical illusions has beaten off competition from titles about space and dinosaurs to win this year’s £10,000 Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fiona Mozley has won the Polari First Book Prize 2018 for her Man Booker-shortlisted debut, Elmet (John Murray). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
There’s A Pig Up My Nose by John Dougherty and Laura Hughes (Egmont) has won the Oscar’s Book Prize 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Five picture books published by Hodder Children’s Books, Egmont, Flying Eye Books, HarperCollins Children’s Books and Nosy Crow are in the running for this year’s £5,000 Oscar’s Book Prize, organised by the Evening Standard. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
US author Angie Thomas has been crowned the overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2018 for her debut YA novel, The Hate U Give (Walker Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give is this year's recipient of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
One female writer is setting up a book prize to reward the best crime novel in which no woman is the victim. Some – inspired by the #MeToo movement – are happy with the initiative, others fear it fails to address tough, real life issues. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles by Matt Carr, Lisa Thompson and Alice Broadway are on the shortlist for this year’s Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, meaning Scholastic has more books in the running than any other publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Matthew Todd, Bantam author and award-winning editorial director of gay magazine Attitude, is among the six authors shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize, awarded annually to a writer whose first book (whether poetry, prose, fiction or non-fiction) explores what it is to be LGBT. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Koala Who Could by Rachel Bright and Jim Field has been named the winner of Oscar’s Book Prize 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholastic has claimed two titles out of the five shortlisted for Oscar’s Book Prize, which honours the best book published for children under five years old. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poet and playwright Kiran Millwood Hargrave has been named the winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017 for her debut novel The Girl of Ink and Stars (Chicken House). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children's Laureate Chris Riddell could win the Kate Greenaway illustration medal for a fourth time. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2017-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]