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Andersen Press, Random House Children’s Publishers (RHCP) and Walker lead the way on this year’s UKLA Book Awards with two nominations each. Piers Torday's debut The Last Wild (Quercus) and Katherine Rundell's Rooftoppers (Faber), which has just won the Blue Peter Best Story award, are among the authors featuring on the three age-ranged shortlists [full details below].
The UKLA prize is coordinated by the United Kingdon Literacy Association and is the UK’s only national book prize voted for by teachers. It is divided into three age categories – 3-6, 7-11 and 12-16+ - and is aimed at improving literacy in schools. To qualify for the award, the book can be fiction or non-fiction but must offer layered meanings, imaginative expression and exciting vocabulary.
Andersen Press’ Don’t Spill the Milk by Stephen Davies has been nominated in the 3-6 catetory, while Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead has been nominated for the 7-11 award. RHCB publishes The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne, which is in the 7-11 shortlist, and Now is the Time for Running, which is up for the 12-16+ award.
Walker Books’ also has a title in the 12-16+ shortlist, Monkey Wars by Richard Kurti, as well as This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen in the 3-6 category.
Nosy Crow, Simon & Schuster, Orchard, Scholastic, Phoenix Yard Books, Faber, Quercus, Pushkin Press, Puffin, Oxford University Press and Bloomsbury also made the lists.
UKLA awards committee chair Lynda Graham, said she was “delighted” with the selection.
The three winners will be announced at a reception on July 4th during the 50th UKLA International Conference at the University of Sussex (July 4-6th 2014).
The shortlists in full:
Shortlist 3-6
Open Very Carefully by Nick Bromley, illustrated by Nicola O’Byrne (Nosy Crow)
Don’t Spill the Milk by Stephen Davies, illustrated by Christopher Corr (Andersen Press)
This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen (Walker Books)
Monkey Nut by Simon Rickerty (Simon & Schuster)
The Dark by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Jon Klassen (Orchard)
How to Hide a Lion by Helen Stephens (Scholastic)
Shortlist list 7-11
The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers (RHCP)
The Naming of Tishkin Silk by Glenda Millard, illustrated by Caroline Magerl (Phoenix Yard Books)
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell (Faber and Faber)
Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead (Andersen Press)
The Last Wild by Piers Torday (Quercus)
The Story of the Blue Planet by Andri Snær Magnason and Julian Meldon, illustrated by Áslaug Jónsdóttir (Pushkin Press)
Shortlist list 12-16+
The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks (Puffin)
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner, illustrated by Julian Crouch (Hot Key Books)
Monkey Wars by Richard Kurti (Walker Books)
The Positively Last Performance by Geraldine McCaughrean (Oxford University Press)
The Wall by William Sutcliffe (Bloomsbury)
Now is the Time for Running by Michael Williams (RHCP)