Oscar's Book Prize
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Oscar's Book Prize is a British children's book prize awarded annually to a book for pre-school age children, which was first published in the UK during the previous calendar year. The £5,000 prize is supported by the London Evening Standard and sponsored by Amazon and the National Literacy Trust, its patron is Princess Beatrice.[1][2] Actor Gillian Anderson was one of the judges for the 2015 prize.[3] In 2021, the prize money was raised to £10,000.[4]
The prize was founded in 2014 by James Ashton and Viveka Alvestrand in memory of their three-year-old son Oscar Ashton who died unexpectedly in 2012. It aims to celebrate a child's love for magical stories and to reward the creativity of early-years literature and to highlight the importance of reading with children.[2][5]
2014
[edit]The 2014 prize was awarded to Benji Davies for The Storm Whale.[6]
Shortlisted Books List[6]
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Open Very Carefully | Nick Bromley and Nicola O'Byrne |
| The Black Rabbit | Philippa Leathers |
| The Snatchabook | Helen Docherty and Thomas Docherty |
| The Storm Whale | Benji Davies |
| Spaghetti with the Yeti | Charlotte Guillain, Adam Guillain, and Lee Wildish |
2015
[edit]The 2015 prize was awarded to Steve Antony for The Queen's Hat.[6]
Shortlisted Books List[6]
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Dangerous! | Tim Warnes |
| Hedgehugs | Steve Wilson and Lucy Tapper |
| The Queen's Hat | Steve Antony |
| The Sea Tiger | Victoria Turnbull |
| This Book Just Ate My Dog! | Richard Byrne |
2016
[edit]The 2016 prize was awarded to Gemma Merino for The Cow Who Climbed a Tree.[6]
Shortlisted Books List[7]
2017
[edit]The 2017 prize was awarded to Rachel Bright and Jim Field for The Koala Who Could.[6][8]
Shortlisted Books List[9]
2018
[edit]The 2018 prize was awarded to John Dougherty and Laura Hughes for There's a Pig Up My Nose.[6]
Shortlisted Books List[10]
2019
[edit]The 2019 prize was awarded to Ed Vere for How to be a Lion.[6][11]
Shortlisted Books List[10]
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Almost Anything | Sophie Henn |
| Ruby's Worry | Tom Percival |
| The Way Home for Wolf | Rachel Bright and Jim Field |
| How to be a Lion | Ed Vere |
| Baby’s First Bank Heist | Jim Whalley and Stephen Collins |
2020
[edit]The 2020 prize was awarded to Benji Davies for Tad.[12]
Shortlisted Books List[13]
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| The Suitcase | Chris Naylor-Ballesteros |
| A Mouse Called Julian | Joe Todd Stanton |
| Alphonse, There’s Mud on the Ceiling! | Daisy Hirst |
| I Am a Tiger | Karl Newson and Ross Collins |
| The Runaway Pea | Kjartan Poskitt and Alex Willmore |
| Tad | Benji Davies |
2021
[edit]The 2021 prize was awarded to Lu Fraser and illustrator Kate Hindley for The Littlest Yak.[14]
Shortlisted Books List[15]
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| I’m Sticking with you | Smriti Halls and Steve Small |
| Meesha Makes Friends | Tom Percival |
| Rain Before Rainbows | Smriti Halls and David Litchfield |
| The Hospital Dog | Julia Donaldson and Sara Ogilvie |
| The Littlest Yak | Lu Fraser and Kate Hindley |
| Would You Like A Banana by | Yasmeen Ismail |
References
[edit]- ^ "Oscar's Book Prize". Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- ^ a b "Oscar's Book Prize - Oscar". Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- ^ Eyre, Charlotte (10 February 2015). "Gillian Anderson joins Oscar's First Book judges". The Bookseller.
- ^ Dex, Robert (12 April 2021). "Oscar's Book Prize shortlist revealed - along with double the prize money". Evening Standard. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ Ashton, James. "Announcing the Oscar's". The Bookseller. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Oscar's Book Prize - Winners". Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- ^ "Oscar's Book Prize 2016: Beatrice battles it out for book prize shortlist". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- ^ Campbell, Lisa (16 May 2017). "The Koala Who Could wins Oscar's Book Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ "Oscar's Book Prize 2017: final shortlist revealed". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- ^ a b "Oscar's Book Prize - News". Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- ^ Eyre, Charlotte (13 May 2019). "Ed Vere wins Oscar's Book Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ "Teaching Resources for Oscar's Book Prize 2020". CLPE. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ Law, Katie (4 May 2020). "This is the shortlist for the Oscar's Book Prize 2020". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ "Fraser and Hindley win £10k Oscar's Book Prize". Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ "Oscar's Book Prize shortlist revealed!". National Literacy Trust. Retrieved 16 June 2021.