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2025 Derby Children's Picture Book Award - The Longlist

By - 10 January 2025 - 09:00am

The Longlisted books for Derby Children's Picture Book Award 2025. 

We're thrilled to share the longlist for Derby Book Festival’s Children’s Picture Book Award 2025.

Massive congratulations to all the authors and illustrators who have made the longlist and thank you to all the publishers who submitted this year – we had a phenomenal 75 entries!

Huge congratulations to:
‘If I Were Prime Minister’ by Trygve Skaug and Ella Okstad @lantana_publishing

‘The Blue Umbrella’ by Emily Ann Davison and Momoko Abe  @andersenpress

 

‘Meet the Wildlings’ by Gwen Millward @templarbooks

 

‘A Boy Called Book’ by Vincent Ralph and Aaron Cushley @scholastic_uk

 

‘Let’s Go!  haw êkwa!’ by Julie Flett @greystonekidsbooks

 

‘The Girl at the Front of the Class’ by Onjali Q. Raúf and Pippa Curnick @hachettekids

 

‘Terrible Horses’ by Raymond Antrobus and Ken Wilson-Max @walkerbooksuk

 

‘The Colour of the Sky’ by Layn Marlow @oxfordchildrens

 

‘Gina Kaminski Rescues the Giant’ by Craig Barr-Green and Francis Martin @littletigerbooks

 

‘Dexter Lost His Boo-Woo’ by Shane Hegarty and Ben Mantle @hachettekids

 

‘Flower Block’ by Lanisha Butterfield and Hoang Giang @puffinbooksuk

 

‘Is it a Seed’ by Emily Ann Davison and Adriena Fong  @flyingeyebooks

 

Shortlisting will take place on Saturday 18 January, when a team of teachers who have been involved with the Book Award previously, will whittle the list down to three. The three shortlisted books will then go into classrooms around Derby, where the children will study them and eventually vote to decide their favourite! We can't wait to find out which one of these fantastic books they choose!

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