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.
Shortlist 2026
There's A Shark In My Pants!
Michelle Harrison
Illustrator - David Tazzyman
Simon & Schuster Children's Books
