Cast your vote for the Wolverhampton Children’s Book Award 2024/25!
Wolverhampton Children’s Book Award Shortlist 2024/2025
The Wolverhampton Children’s Book Award is back!
Are you aged 9 – 13? Then get ready to meet some inspirational characters, embark on perilous quests and be captivated by our fantastic 2024/2025 shortlisted titles. Congratulations to all of our authors who have been shortlisted.
Both the longlist and shortlist of books are chosen by young people from schools across the region. The purpose of the Wolverhampton Children’s Book Award is not only to celebrate children’s literature, but to promote reading for pleasure and to reinforce the importance of fiction.
The following titles have been shortlisted for the 2024/25 Award:
Since the Award began in 2019, young people across Wolverhampton have voted the following titles as their winners:
2018/19 – Will You Catch Me by Jane Elson
2019/20 – Little Badman and the Invasion of the Killer Aunties by Humza Arshad
2020/21 – Wilde by Eloise Williams
2021/22 – The Hideaway by Pam Smy
2022/23 – Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by A.F. Steadman
2023/24 – My Name is Sunshine Simpson by G.M. Linton
In collaboration with the publishers, our shortlisted authors will be invited to attend an award ceremony on Thursday, 3rd July. Please look out for updates on this page as author attendance is confirmed. If your school would like to attend the award ceremony, then please contact Zoe Rowley: .
For more information about this, or other ways Wolverhampton Grammar School can support your school or organisation, please contact Zoe Rowley by email: or telephone: 01902 421326.
