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Indie Book Awards 2020 Shortlists
CHILDREN’S FICTION SHORTLIST - Toffee by Sarah Crossan (Bloomsbury) - Deeplight by Frances Hardinge (Macmillan Children’s Books) - Chinglish: An Almost Entirely True Story by Sue Cheung … More
The Queen’s Knickers Award Shortlist
The Queen's Knickers Award (inaugural year) The shortlist for this new annual prize, founded by Nicholas Allan, author of The Queen's Knickers (to be awarded for an outstanding children's … More
2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award Winners
Junko Yokota, Chair of the Jury for the Hans Christian Andersen Award of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) has announced the winners of the 2020 IBBY Hans Christian Andersen … More
The 2020 Alligator’s Mouth Award Shortlist
This is a great little award, founded in 2018, which highlights illustrated early fiction. The award takes its name from The Alligator's Mouth Children's Bookshop in Richmond and has as its official … More