Past Winners

2025-26: King Edward VI Northfield School for Girls

2024-25: Strand on the Green Junior School

2023-24: Grand Avenue Primary and Nursery School

2022-23: Gosforth East Middle School

2021-22: Heathfield Nursery and Infant School

2020-21: Barnes Primary School

2025-26: Once I Was a Tree by Eoin McLaughlin and Guilherme Karsten

2024-25: Who Ate Steve? by Susannah Lloyd and Kate Hindley

2023-24: Dick the Delightful Duck by Kaye Umansky and Ben Mantle

2022-23: The Drama Llama by Rachel Morrisroe and Ella Okstad

2021-22: A Mouse Called Julian by Joe Todd-Stanton 

2020-21: Avocado Asks by Momoko Abe

2025-26: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello and Emma McCann 

2024-25: Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial by Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton

2023-24: Wildsmith: Into the Dark Forest by Liz Flanagan and Joe Todd-Stanton 

2022-23: Einstein the Penguin by Iona Rangeley and David Tazzyman

2021-22: The Accidental Diary of B.U.G. by Jen Carney

2020-21: Llama Out Loud! by Annabelle Sami and Allen Fatimaharan

2025-26: Shrapnel Boys by Jenny Pearson

2024-25: Jakub's Otter by Coral Rumble

2023-24: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow and Joe Todd-Stanton

2022-23: Rollercoaster Boy by Lisa Thompson and Gemma Correll

2021-22: Wolfstongue by Sam Thompson and Anna Tromop

2020-21: Voyage of the Sparrowhawk by Natasha Farrant

2025-26: I Dare You by Tamsin Winter

2024-25: King of Nothing by Nathanael Lessore

2023-24: This Book Kills by Ravena Guron

2025-26 Non fiction: Choose Your Own Evolution by Jules Howard and Gordy Wright

2024-25 Non fiction: Into the Volcano by Catherine Ard and Wenjia Tang

2023-24 Graphic novels: Investigators: Heist and Seek by John Patrick Green

2022-23 Poetry: Things That Should be in a Poem by Coral Rumble and Shih-Yu Lin

2021-22 Picture fiction: The Invisible by Tom Percival