Information Book Award 2025 longlist announced!

May 7th 2025

Today, the School Library Association (SLA) announced the longlisted titles for the Information Book Award (IBA). Peters is delighted to be supporting the Information Book Award again as a sponsor, alongside Hachette Children's Group.

The 2025 Information Book Award longlist is a brilliant demonstration of the quality of information books available for children and young people, selected by the SLA's panel of judges. The 34 outstanding non-fiction titles span everything from burps to skateboards, and politics to physics.

Revealing this year's Information Book Award longlist...

Age 0-7 years

• Along Came A ... Burp! by Saskia Gwinn, illustrated by Paula Bowles (Templar Books)
  
  
• Celebrations and Festivals: Diwali by Sital Gorasia Chapman, illustrated by Darshika Varma (Quarto)
  
  
• Finding Home by Mike Unwin, illustrated by Jenni Desmond (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
  
  
• First Questions and Answers: Why Do We Need Worms? by Katie Daynes, illustrated by Moesha Kellaway (Usborne)
  
  
• How to Shine at Primary School by Kit Brown, illustrated by Allison Steinfeld (Wren & Rook, Hachette Children’s Group)
  
  
• The Life-Changing Magic of Skateboarding by Sky Brown, illustrated by Shaw Davidson (Magic Cat Publishing)
  
  
• A Little Blue Dot by Maren Hasenjäger (Mama Makes Books)
  
  
• Me and My Hair by Kimberley Kinloch, illustrated by Jessica Gibson (Usborne)
  
  
• Patience... by Rachel Williams, illustrated by Leonie Lord (Magic Cat Publishing)
  
  
• This Book Will Make You an Artist by Ruth Millington, illustrated by Ellen Surrey (Nosy Crow)
  
  
• Welcome to Our Playground: A Celebration of Games Children Play Everywhere by Moira Butterfield, illustrated by Harriet Lynas (Nosy Crow)
  
  
• What is AI? by Neal Layton (Hodder Children’s Books, Hachette Children’s Group)

Age 8-12

• 50 Ways Into Football by Dan Freedman and Daniel Gee (Wren & Rook, Hachette Children’s Group)
  
  
• All About Flags by Robin Jacobs, illustrated by Ben Javens (Cicada Books)
  
  
• Amazing Asia by Rashmi Sirdeshpande, illustrated by Jason Lyon (Quarto)
  
  
• Colossal Words for Kids by Collette Hiller, illustrated by Tor Freeman (Quarto)
  
  
• Gold Rush by Flora Delargy (Quarto)
  
  
• How to Say No to Your Phone by Brad Marshall (Magic Cat Publishing)
  
  
• How to Walk on the Moon and Other Incredible Ideas About Physics by William Potter, illustrated by Richard Watson (Arcturus Publishing)
  
  
• Inside Story: How the News Works by ITN Productions, illustrated by Terri Po (Templar Books)
  
  
• The Jellyfish Garden: Explore their Curious World by Paola Vitale, illustrated by Rossana Bossù (Post Wave Children’s Books)
  
  
• On Track by Tom Adams, illustrated by Tom Jay (Quarto)
  
  
• Our Cosmos by Professor Raman Prinja, illustrated by Suzie Mason (Welbeck Children’s Books, Hachette Children’s Group)
  
  
• She Speaks: The Women of Greek Myths in their Own Words by Honor Cargill-Martin, illustrated by Camelia Pham (Magic Cat Publishing)

Age 13-16 years

• Alastair Campbell Talks Politics by Alastair Campbell (Red Shed, Farshore)
  
  
• Black History for Every Day of the Year by David and Yinka Olusoga, illustrated by Kemi Olusoga (Macmillan Children’s Books)
  
  
• Deborah Meaden Talks Money by Deborah Meaden (Red Shed, Farshore)
  
  
• Explodapedia: Rewild by Ben Martynoga, illustrated by Moose Allain (David Fickling Books)
  
  
• History for Beginners by Andy Prentice and Tom Mumbray, illustrated by Paul Boston (Usborne)
  
  
• The History of Information by Chris Haughton (DK Children’s)
  
  
• An Illustrated History of Urban Legends by Adam Allsuch Boardman (Flying Eye Books)
  
  
• Queerbook by Malcom Mackenzie, illustrated by Emily A. Foster (Red Shed, Farshore)
  
  
• Seriously HAPPY by Ben Aldridge (Quarto)
  
  
• The Usborne Teen Survival Guide by Caroline Young, illustrated by The Boy Fitz Hammond, Laura Wood (Usborne)

Sign up for the IBA Book Club for reading resources and a chance to vote for the winner

Schools across the UK can now sign up to join the IBA Book Club. Schools who take part in the book club will have the opportunity to vote for four winners in the Children’s Choice categories of the Information Book Award. 

Each participating school will receive a set of useful resources to help make their book club enjoyable and engaging for pupils. Every school that signs up to the IBA Book Club will also be entered into a draw to receive a free set of the shortlisted books. 

Schools that aren’t selected to receive a free book bundle will be able to purchase the shortlisted books from Peters with 26% off the RRP*, helping as many schools as possible to take part in the voting process.

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*Customers will receive our standard discount of 26% off the RRP of the majority of books in stock. Offer excludes some short discount items (a small number of academic titles, reading schemes, big books and audio books), bespoke selections and book pack orders.

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