Wolverhampton Children’s Book Award 2025/26

The Wolverhampton Children’s Book Award celebrates children’s books published in the last year. It is an opportunity for children from Years 5 – 8 to read a range of fiction and to nominate new books which they have enjoyed reading.

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.

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
• 2024/25 – The Misadventures of Mina Mahmood by Farhana Islam

In collaboration with Authors Aloud UK, the shortlisted authors will be invited to attend an award ceremony on Wednesday, 1st July. If your school would like to take part in the Award, then please contact Zoe Rowley.

For more information about this, or other ways Wolverhampton Grammar School can support your school or organisation, please email Zoe Rowley.

For information about Authors Aloud UK and their work to bring authors into schools, please email Annie Everall.