The shortlisted titles for the 2015 Irish Book Awards have been announced. Here are the titles in the youth categories:

Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year – Junior

 

The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower, or John Howland’s Good Fortune by P. J. Lynch

The Day The Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers

  

A Dublin Fairytale by Nicola Colton

I’m a Girl! by Yasmeen Ismail

 

Imaginary Fred by Eoin Colfer & Oliver Jeffers

The Snow Beast by Chris Judge

 

Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year – Senior

 

Asking For It by Louise O’Neill

Darkmouth: Worlds Explode by Shane Hegarty

 

Demon Road by Derek Landy

Once upon a Place by Eoin Colfer

One by Sarah Crossan