In 2017, the Awards were re-launched to include both print and e-book sales. Silver, Gold & Platinum Awards are presented to single books that have sold over 250,000, 500,000 & 1 million copies respectively. Throughout the year, awards are presented to authors that have achieved outstanding sales in the 21st Century. In January each year, The Nielsen Bestsellers Awards take place, rewarding authors that have topped the sales charts.   https://youtu.be/BxYISyv8cUg

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The Bookbug Picture Book Prize is a project delivered by Scottish Book Trust celebrating the very best Scottish picture books and encouraging reading for pleasure in homes, nurseries, primary schools and libraries across the country. The winning picture book is voted for entirely by children across Scotland. The 2019 shortlist is: Eric Makes A Splash by Emily MacKenzie (Bloomsbury) One Button Benny by Alan Windram and illustrated by Chloe Holwill-Hunter (Little Door) I Am Bat by Morag Hood (Macmillan) The winning title will be announced in January. Shortlisted authors and illustrators receive £500 per book, and the winner will receive £3,000. Alan Windram …

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The Costa Book Awards is one of the UK’s most prestigious and popular literary prizes and recognises some of the most enjoyable books of the year, written by authors based in the UK and Ireland. Since their launch in 1971, the awards have rewarded a wide range of excellent books and authors across all genres. Uniquely, the prize has five categories – First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s Book – with one of the five winning books selected as the overall Costa Book of the Year. It is the only prize which places children’s books alongside adult books in …

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The Books Are My Bag Readers Awards are a unique set of awards. They are the only book awards with shortlists curated by bookshops, with the winners voted for by booklovers. Five shortlists are chosen by booksellers across the UK & Ireland: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Biography & Autobiography, Children’s and Breakthrough Author. A special Readers Choice Award; voted for entirely by booklovers; and a Beautiful Book Ward; voted for entirely by booksellers, complete the set. The Book Are My Bag Readers Awards are sponsored by National Book Tokens.

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The An Post Irish Book Awards brings together the entire literary community – readers, authors, booksellers, publishers and librarians – to recognise and celebrate the very best of Irish literary talent. The Awards dinner has become the major event in the literary calendar with some of Ireland’s, and indeed the world’s, most recognised authors gathering together in a spirit of camaraderie and friendly competition to celebrate the success of the past year. The Awards consist of a range of categories including Novel of the Year, Children’s, Cookery, Crime Fiction, Popular Fiction, Nonfiction, Sports, Short Story, Poetry and Teen and Young …

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The Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize began life back in 2005, with Stuart Hill’s fantasy The Cry of the Icemark bagging the inaugural award. The Prize now covers three key areas of children’s publishing – Picture Books, Younger Fiction and Older Fiction. Each year, of the three category winners from the 18-strong shortlist, one title will also have the honour of walking away with the overall Prize. The overall Waterstones Children’s Book Prize Winner is The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf The 2019 shortlist is: Illustrated Books Shortlist 100 Dogs by Michael Whaite Julian Is A Mermaid by Jessica …

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The enormously popular and influential Blue Peter Book Awards have been recognising and celebrating the best authors, the most creative illustrators and the greatest reads for children since 2000. The Blue Peter Book Awards 2019 celebrates children’s books published in the last year in two categories: the Best Story and the Best Book with Facts. Previous Blue Peter Book Award winners include Cressida Cowell, Michael Morpurgo, Katherine Rundell, Oliver Jeffers and Liz Pichon. Shortlist – Best Story  The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q Raúf The Clockwork Crow by Catherine Fisher The House With Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson Shortlist – Best Book With Facts …

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Launched in 2014, The YA Book Prize is awarded annually to the best young adult book written by an author living in the UK or Ireland. It is the first UK and Ireland prize to specifically focus on fiction for young adults and addresses an important need for a prize in the growing YA and teen market. The prize celebrates great books for teenagers and young adults and aims to get more teens reading and buying books. Worth £2,000 to the winning author, the prize is powered by the Bookseller and is run in partnership with the Hay Festival, where …

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The British Book Awards or Nibbies honours and celebrates the commercial successes of publishers, authors and bookshops. Organised by The Bookseller, it culminates in the stand-out event of the publishing year, The British Book Awards ceremony at the Grosvenor House hotel. Alongside trade accolades such as publisher of the year and book retailer of the year, The British Book Awards announces seven individual books of the year: Children’s; Debut fiction; Fiction; Crime & Thriller; Non-fiction: Lifestyle; Non-fiction: Narrative and (new in 2018) AudioBook. An overall Book of the Year is then chosen from the individual winners. Also new in 2018, The …

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The Children’s Book Award is the only national award voted for solely by children from start to finish. It is highly regarded by parents, teachers, librarians, publishers and children’s authors and illustrators as it truly represents the children’s choice. Thanks to the support of the publishers, over 1,000 new books are donated to be read and reviewed by our Testing Groups across the country every year, with over 150,000 total votes being cast in the process. At the end of each testing year, nearly 12,000 books are donated to hospitals, women’s refuges, nurseries and disadvantaged schools by our groups.

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The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals are the UK’s oldest and most prestigious children’s book awards. Often described by authors and illustrators as ‘the one they want to win’ – they are the gold standard in children’s literature. The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people. The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people.

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Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) is a campaign run by the Booksellers Association and its members to celebrate independent bookshops on the high streets of the UK & Ireland. The winners of the IBW Book Award 2019 are: Adult category: Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls (Penguin) Children’s Category: Catherine Doyle’s The Storm Keeper’s Island (Bloomsbury) Picture Book Category:  If All the World Were… (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books) by Joseph Coelho and illustrated by Allison Colpoys. The winners of the IBW Book Award 2018 were: – Adult category – A Gentleman in Moscow (Windmill) by Amor Towles – Children’s category – Where the World Ends (Usborne) by Geraldine McCaughrean – …

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The UKLA Book Awards seek to celebrate children’s books in order to: – encourage teachers to increase their professional and personal knowledge of recently published high quality children’s books – promote the place of books for young people in all educational settings from nursery to key stage 4 The books selected for the award will be titles that teachers can share with pupils as part of regular classroom experience, eg to: read for pleasure in the teacher’s read aloud programme to the whole class inspire extended response from learners (through discussion, creative interaction or understanding the wider curriculum) be the …

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The Kelpies Prize is an annual prize for new Scottish writing for children run by publisher Floris Books. Previous winners include Emily Illett for The Girl Who Lost her Shadow in 2017 and this years winner is Hannah Foley for the The Lost Wizard of Nine Witches Wood. 

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