The shortlist for The Children’s Book Award for 2016 has been announced. This British award was previously known as the Red House Children’s Book Award. Voted on and chosen by children, this is a unique award. Here is the shortlist:

BOOKS FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN

 

Fabulous Pie by Gareth Edwards and Guy Parker-Rees

Is There a Dog in This Book? by Viviane Schwartz

 

Ready, Steady, Jump by Jeanne Willis and Adrian Reynolds

This Book Just Ate My Dog by Richard Byrne

BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS

  

Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen

Horrid Henry’s Krazy Ketchup by Francesca Simon, illustrated by Tony Ross

My Head Teacher Is a Vampire Rat by Pamela Butchart, illustrated by Thomas Flintham

BOOKS FOR OLDER READERS

  

Apple and Rain by Sarah Crossan

Listen to the Moon by Michael Morpurgo

Smart by Kim Slater

Publisher’s Weekly has released their list of the best books for 2015. These include books for preschoolers through young adults. Here are their picks:

PICTURE BOOKS

  

The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers

The Dog That Nino Didn’t Have by Edward van de Vendel, illustrated by Anton Van Hertbruggen

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick, illustrated by Sophie Blackall

  

Flutter & Hum: Animal Poems by Julie Paschkis

Home by Carson Ellis

The King and the Sea by Heinz Janisch, illustrated by Wolf Erlbruch

  

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena, illustrated by Christian Robinson

Lenny & Lucy by Philip C. Stead, illustrated by Erin E. Stead

Leo: A Ghost Story by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Christian Robinson

  

The Night World by Mordicai Gerstein

The Only Child by Guojing

The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton

  

Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson, illustrated by Sydney Smith

Thank You and Good Night by Patrick McDonnell

This Bridge Will Not Be Gray by Dave Eggers, illustrated by Tucker Nichols

 

Toys Meet Snow by Emily Jenkins, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky

Waiting by Kevin Henkes

 

MIDDLE GRADE

  

Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan

Friends for Life by Andrew Norriss

George by Alex Gino

  

Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead

Harriet the Invincible by Ursula Vernon

Listen, Slowly by Thanhha Lai

  

Lost in the Sun by Lisa Graff

The Marvels by Brian Selznick

Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin

  

My Diary from the Edge of the World by Jodi Lynn Anderson

The Nest by Kenneth Oppel, illustrated by Jon Klassen

Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt

  

Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson

The Thing about Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin

The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

 

YOUNG ADULT

  

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

  

Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans by Don Brown

The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough

  

The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz

Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley

MARTians by Blythe Woolston

  

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen

Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older

  

The Shepherd’s Crown by Terry Pratchett

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

A Song for Ella Grey by David Almond

  

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M. T. Anderson

Trouble Is a Friend of Mine by Stephanie Tromly

X by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon

Canada Council for the Arts have announced the winners of the 2015 Governor General’s Awards. Here are the winners of the youth categories:

Children’s Literature – Text Winner

The Gospel Truth by Caroline Pignat

Children’s Literature – Illustrated Books Winner

Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson, illustrated by Sydney Smith

Amnesty International and CILIP will be working together to celebrate human rights in UK children’s books. The prize will be named the Amnesty CILIP Honour and will offer a medal to one book on the shortlist for the Carnegie Medal and one book on the shortlist for the Kate Greenaway picture book award.

The medal will begin in 2016 with the first award given in June of that year.

Amnesty International’s Nicky Parker, said: “Books have a unique ability to inspire empathy, broaden horizons and empower young readers. We hope this award will make it easy to identify books which will teach children about truth, freedom and justice and encourage them to feel they can shape a better world.”

 

The longlist for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award has been released. It is the world’s largest prize in children’s literature with a purse worth more than $600,000.

215 authors and illustrators have been nominated from 59 countries around the world for the 2016 award.

   

American nominees include Eric Carle, Neil Gaiman, Maira Kalman, Ursula Le Guin, Lois Lowry, Naomi Shihab Nye, Peter Sis and David Wiesner.

  

United Kingdom nominees include Allan Ahlberg, David Almond, Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs, Aidan Chambers, Michael Foreman, Morris Gleitzman, Shirley Hughes, Oliver Jeffers, Michael Morpurgo, Patrick Ness, and Marcus Sedgwick.

Yesterday, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The winner will be announced on November 18.

Here are the five finalists:

 

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

 

Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

The Thing about Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin

Scholastic has stepped forward to offer a new series of awards for funny children’s books in the UK with the wonderful Michael Rosen acting as head judge. The Laugh Out Loud Book Prize will help fill the gap left by the end of the Roald Dahl Prize earlier in October.

The awards will cover the following categories:

• Best Laugh Out Loud Picture Book
• Best Laugh Out Loud Book for 6-8s
• Best Laugh Out Loud Book for 9-13s

The shortlist will be chosen by judges and announced in March. Final winners will be voted on by children with the winners announced in September of next year.

Hat tip to The Bookseller for the news.

The finalists for the 2nd Annual Kirkus Prizes were announced yesterday. The award comes with a $50,000 prize. Winners will be announced on October 15th.

Here are the finalists for Young Readers’ Literature:

 

Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuh

 

The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough

Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Shane W. Evans

 

The New Small Person by Lauren Child

Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older

The 2015 National Book Award Longlist for Young People’s Literature has been announced. The finalists will be named on October 14th and the winners announced on November 18th.

  

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin

  

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M. T. Anderson

  

The Thing about Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin

This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares and Laughing Dinosaurs by Gary Paulsen

Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson

X by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon