Winners of the 2024 Week Junior Book Awards announced
Week Junior Book Award Ceremony
This week, The Week Junior celebrated the brilliant world of children’s books and the talented people who create them at The Week Junior Book Awards 2024.
The 2024 winners were revealed at an awards ceremony hosted by TV and radio presenter Fee Mak at County Hall in London on Monday (30th September).
Fourteen books were crowned from more than 450 entries, with two of the awards – Children’s Choice and Children’s Book Cover of the Year – voted for by readers of The Week Junior.
BooksForTopics director Alison Leach was among the judging panel, which included experts from the UK’s children’s publishing industry, media figures and subject specialists.
Among the winners were Adam Kay, G.M. Linton. Louie Stowell and Adam Rutherford, and a number of the winning books will be familiar to the BooksForTopics community from their appearances on our primary school booklists.
Celebrating Excellence in Children’s Books
Established in 2023, The Week Junior Book Awards were created to address the need for critical discourse around children’s literature and to spotlight the remarkable work of both emerging and established children’s authors. You can read about the full Week Junior Book Award shortlists here.
Anna Bassi, Editorial Director of The Week Junior and chair of the awards, said:
“We’re delighted to honour these incredible books and their power to bring pleasure to children through words, pictures, ideas and imagination. The line-up boasts extraordinary stories, compelling characters, fascinating facts, incredible illustrations and useful advice. With awards for both fiction and non-fiction and subjects spanning everything from dinosaurs to the digestive system, there is something here for every young reader – even those who say they don’t like reading.”
Some of the award-winning authors will be appearing at The Week Junior Book Festival, scheduled during the school half-term on 29 October at Barbican Centre, London.
The Winners of The Week Junior Book Awards 2024
Here are the winners of the 2024 Week Junior Book Awards:
Children’s Book Cover of the Year – The Kingdom Over the Sea by Zohra Nabi & Tom Clohosy Cole (Simon & Schuster)
Children’s Book of the Year: Younger Fiction 6-9 – Pizza Pete and the Perilous Potions by Carrie Sellon & Sarah Horne (Guppy Books)
Children’s Book of the Year: Older Fiction 9-12 – Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan (Andersen Press)
Children’s Book of the Year: Hobbies and Interests – Rhinoceros Can’t Draw… But You Can! by Luke Newell and Mr Griff (Noodle Juice)
Children’s Audiobook of the Year –Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Ruling the World by Louie Stowell and narrated by Ben Willbond (WF Howes)
Children’s Book of the Year: Breakthrough – My Name is Sunshine Simpson by G M Linton & Fuuji Takashi (Usborne)
Children’s Book of the Year: Graphic Novel – Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martin, publisher (Guppy Books)
Children’s Choice – Guinness World Records 2024 by Craig Glenday & Rod Hunt (Guinness World Records)
Children’s Book of the Year: Non-Fiction – Welcome to Our Table: A Celebration of What Children Eat Everywhere by Laura Mucha & Ed Smith (Nosy Crow)
Children’s Book of the Year: STEM – Where Are You Really From? by Adam Rutherford, E L Norry & Adam Ming, (Hachette Children’s Group)
Children’s Book of the Year: Animals and Nature – The Tyrannosaur’s Feathers by Jonathan Emmett, Dr Adam S Smith & Stieven Van der Poorten (UCLan)
Children’s Book of the Year: Picturebook – Amy Gets Eaten by Adam Kay & Henry Paker (Penguin Random House)
Children’s Book of the Year: Wellbeing – Friendship Survival Guide by Caroline Young (Usborne)
Children’s Book of the Year: Poetry – A Dinosaur at the Bus Stop: Poems to Have Fun With by Kate Wakeling & Eilidh Muldoon (Otter-Barry Books)
You can see the full Week Junior Book Award shortlist here.
Further information can be found on The Week Junior Book Awards website.
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