English 4-11 Picture Book Awards

 

Thanks to the library I visit each week I have just discovered another wonderful UK Children's Book Award. Earlier today I talked about The Forgettery which won this award in 2022.

The English 4-11 Awards are for the best children’s picture books of the year in 4 categories fiction and non-fiction 4-7, 7-11.  Established in 1995, the awards are presented by the English Association to the best children’s picture books of the year.  Awards are given to Fiction and Non-Fiction in age ranges 4-7 years and 7-11 years. The winning books are chosen by the editorial board of English 4-11, the journal for primary teachers published by the English Association and the United Kingdom Literacy Association, from a shortlist selected by a panel of teachers and Primary specialists.

Scroll down on this site to see earlier winners. Here are more recent ones:

2022

Non-fiction 7-11  Rescuing Titanic by Flora Delargy (Wide Eyed Editions)

Non-fiction 4-7  In My Mosque by M. O. Yuksel and Hatem Aly (Farshore Books)

Fiction 7-11  A Cat Called Waverley by Debi Gliori (Otter-Barry Books)

Fiction 4-7  The Forgettery by Rachel Ip and Laura Hughes (Farshore Books)

2021

Non-fiction 7-11  The Homes we Build: A World of Habitats and Houses by Anne Jonas and Illustrated by Lou Rihn (Laurence King Publishing)

Non-fiction 4-7  A New Green Day written and illustrated by Antoinette Portis (Scallywag Press)

Fiction 7-11  The Wolf’s Secret by Myriam Dahman and Nicolas Digard and illustrated by Julia Sarda (Hachette Children’s Group)

Fiction 4-7  The Goody written and illustrated by Lauren Child (Hachette Children’s Group)

2020

Non-fiction 7-11 Rise Up! The Art of Protest by Jo Rippon, (Palazzo Editions Limited)

Non-fiction 4-7  A Million Dots written and illustrated by Sven Völker (Cicada Books)

Fiction 7-11 Through the Wall written and illustrated by Jonathan Standing (The Salariya Book Co) 

Fiction 4-7  The Suitcase written and illustrated by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros (Nosy Crow)

2019

Non- Fiction 4-7  The Rhythm of the Rain Grahame Baker-Smith (Templar Publishing)

Non-Fiction 7-11  Ocean Hélène Druvert and Emmanuelle Grundmann (Thames & Hudson)

Fiction 7-11  Ocean Meets Sky The Fan Brothers (The Quarto Group)

Fiction 4-7  I Say Ooh, You say Aah John Kane (Templar Publishing)

2018

Non-fiction 7-11  The Ways of the Wolf Smriti Prasadam-Halls, illustrated by Jonathan Woodward (Hachette Children’s Group)

Non-fiction 4-7  The Big Book of Beasts Yuval Zommer (Thames and Hudson)

Fiction 7-11  On A Magical Do-Nothing Day Beatrice Alemagna (Thames and Hudson)

Fiction 4-7  Stardust Jeanne Willis, illustrated by Briony May Smith (Nosy Crow)

Other famous titles that have either won or been selected for this award include: Ten Seeds (2002); The Cockerel and the Fox (2003); Bill in a China Shop (2004); The Arrival (2007); The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2008); Varmints (2008); We Are All Born Free (2009); The Black Book of Colours (2011); Mirror (2011); Press Here (2012); The Day the Crayons Quit (2014).