Children’s Picture Book of the Year

This award celebrates the creativity and craft involved in producing books for younger children in which illustration plays a key and dominant part. The winning entry will surprise and delight, combining pictures with words to create an engaging tale that lends itself to being read aloud.

 

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Blue Monster

Petr Horacek

Otter Barry Books

Godfrey is a Frog

Author & Illustrator Alex Latimer

Oxford University Press

Grandpa Kuma

Michelle Maiden
Cover Design, David Rose

Wacky Bee Books

Serena and the Little Blue Dog

Author & Illustrator Rosemary Clunie

Zephyr, Head of Zeus

The Cafe at the edge of The Woods

Author & Illustrator Mikey Please

Haper Collins

There's a Tiger on the Train

Mariesa Dulak
Illustrator, Rebecca Cobb

Faber