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Children's Book Award
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Children's Book Award
The Children’s Book Award (known as the Red House Children’s Book Award during the 14 years of The Book People’s sponsorship)  is the only national award for children’s books that is voted for entirely by children themselves. It was founded in 1980 by Pat Thomson of the Federation of Children's Book Groups to celebrate the books that children themselves love reading, and each year since then children in FCBG book groups and around the UK have been reading as many new books as they can and voting to pick both the shortlist and the eventual winners. It is highly respected by teachers, librarians and parents, and past winners include J.K. Rowling, Patrick Ness, Andy Stanton, Malorie Blackman, Anthony Horowitz and Oliver Jeffers. 

Lewes Children's Book Group helps enable local children to vote by lending copies of the shortlisted books to local schools and members' families. 


Children's Book Award 2020

For this year the categories will be Books for Younger Children, Books for Younger Readers, Books for Confident Readers and Books for Older Readers, with three titles in each category. By clicking on the titles, you will be able to read a blog post about each book.

Books for Younger Children

Jazz Dog - Marie Voigt
Matisse's Magical Trail - Tim Hopgood & Sam Boughton
The Runaway Pea - Kjartan Poskitt & Alex Willmore

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Books for Younger Readers
Mutant Zombies Cursed My School Trip - Matt Brown & Paco Sordo
Owen and the Soldier - Lisa Thompson
The Maker of Monsters - Lorraine Gregory


Books for Confident Readers 
Wildspark - Vashti Hardy
A Pocketful of Stars - Aisha Busby
D-Day Dog - Tom Palmer


Books for Older Readers 
Becoming Dinah - Kit de Waal
On the Come Up - Angie Thomas
Two Can Keep a Secret - Karen M. McManus

To vote, visit the 2020 Voting page.

The awards ceremony will be held online on 10th October, and the voting has been extended until the 11th September.

​For information on previous years' winners visit http://fcbg.org.uk/childrens-book-award/





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