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Shortlists Announced for New Children’s Fiction Awards 2016

Judges include comedian Lucy Porter, authors Clare Mackintosh and David Melling and Mumsnet editor Sarah Crown…

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The magazines Teach Primary and Teach Reading and Writing have announced the shortlists for their second annual New Children’s Fiction Awards. A panel of six judges will select a winner and two runners up for each of three categories, from the following titles:

Reception

KS1

  • Fox Investigates – a Brush With Danger by Adam Frost (Little Tiger Press)
  • Superbot and the Terrible Toy Destroyer by Nick Ward (David Fickling)
  • Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed by Michael Rosen, ill. Neal Layton (Bloomsbury)
  • The No 1 Car Spotter and the Broken Road by Atinuke (Walker)
  • Let’s Play by Hervé Tullet (Chronicle Kids)
  • Imaginary Fred by Eoin Colfer, ill. Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins)

KS2

  • How to Look for a Lost Dog by Ann M. Martin (Usborne)
  • The Many Worlds of Albie Bright by Christopher Edge (Nosy Crow)
  • Beetle Boy by M G Leonard (Chicken House)
  • Railhead by Philip Reeve (OUP)
  • Heartsong by Kevin Crossley-Holland, ill. Jane Ray (Orchard)
  • The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin (Macmillan)

The judging panel will comprise Brough Girling (founder of Readathon); Clare Argar (Programme Manager, National Literacy Trust Young Readers Programme); Sarah Crown (editor of Mumsnet, and former editor of Guardian Books); Clare Mackintosh (bestselling author of I Let You Go); David Melling (children’s author/illustrator); and Lucy Porter (comedian, writer, parent).

The results will be announced in the next issue of Teach Reading and Writing magazine, due for publication this June

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