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…
- by Teachwire
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
- Nibbles: The Book Monster by Emma Yarlett (Little Tiger Press)
- Good Knight, Bad Knight by Tom Knight (Templar)
- There’s a Bear On My Chair by Ross Collins (Nosy Crow)
- I’m a Girl! by Yasmeen Ismail (Bloomsbury)
- Grrrrr! by Rob Biddulph (HarperCollins)
- Walter’s Wonderful Web by Tim Hopgood (Macmillan)
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