2025
Children's & YA prize
Shortlist announcement:
22 April 2025
Winner announcement:
4 June 2025
Long list












-
Bringing Back Kay-Kay, Dev Kothari (Walker)
-
Flower Block, Lanisha Butterfield & Hoang Giang (Puffin)
-
It's Time to Hush and Say Goodnight, Chitra Soundar, ill Sandhya Prabhat (Walker)
-
King of Nothing, Nathanael Lessore (Hot Key)
-
Little Dinosaurs Big Feelings, Swapna Haddow & Yiting Lee (Magic Cat)
-
Mayowa and the Sea of Words, Chibundu Onuzo (Bloomsbury)
-
Red Sky at Night, Poet's Delight, Alex Wharton, ill Ian Morris (Firefly Press)
-
The Boy to Beat the Gods, Ashley Thorpe (Usborne)
-
The Gift, Jii and Nikos Parkes Trepkas (Tate Publishing)
-
The Hidden Story of Estie Noor, Nadine Aisha Jassat, ill Sandhya Prabhat (Orion)
-
The Thread That Connects Us, Ayaan Mohamud (Usborne)
-
These Stolen Lives, Sharada Keats (Scholastic)