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October 8th 2019
The UKLA Book Awards seek to celebrate children’s books in order to:
The books selected for the award will be titles that teachers can share with pupils as part of regular classroom experience to:
Selection committees and teacher judges are asked to look, first and foremost, for well-written, engaging ‘reads’ and, where appropriate, outstanding illustration and design.
The UKLA have announced the titles included in this year’s longlist.
3-6+ Longlist Titles
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Title |
Author |
Illustrator |
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When Sadness Came to call |
Eland, Eva |
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Splash Day |
Sharratt, Nick |
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I Can Fly |
Kuo, Fifi |
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The Hug |
McLaughlin, Eoin |
Dunbar, Polly |
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If all the World were… |
Coehlo, Joseph |
Colpoys, Allison |
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The Visitor |
Damm, Antje |
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Tad |
Davies, Benji |
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Amazing |
Antony, Steve |
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Mixed |
Chung, Aree |
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I Am a Tiger |
Newson, Karl |
Collins, Ross |
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What Does an Anteater eat? |
Collins, Ross |
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The Suitcase |
Naylor-Ballesteros, Chris |
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The Rabbit, The Dark and the Biscuit Tin |
O'Byrne, Nicola |
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Lubna and Pebble |
Meddour, Wendy |
Egneus, Daniel |
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Red and the City |
Voight, Marie |
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How to be a Lion |
Vere, Ed |
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The Wall in the Middle of the Book |
Agee, John |
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How to Light Your Dragon |
Levy, Didier |
Benaglia, Fred |
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Cyril and Pat |
Gravett, Emily |
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The Day War Came |
Davies, Nicola |
Cobb, Rebecca |
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Julian is a Mermaid |
Love, Jessica |
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7-10+ Longlist Titles
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Title |
Author |
Illustrator |
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Slick |
Vaughan, M.M |
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#Goldilocks |
Willis, Jeanne |
Ross, Tony |
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Race to the Frozen North |
Johnson, Catherine |
Hickey, Katie |
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Run Wild |
Lewis, Gill |
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Armistice Runner |
Palmer, Tom |
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The Boy Who Hit Play |
Daykin, Chloe |
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High Rise Mystery |
Jackson, Sharna |
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The Runaway Robot |
Boyce, Frank Cottrell |
Lenton, Steven |
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The Middler |
Applebaum, Kirsty |
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The Boy at the Back of the Class |
Rauf, Onjali Q |
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Corey's Rock |
Brahmachari, Sita |
Ray, Jane |
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A Kid in My Class |
Rooney, Rachel |
Riddell, Chris |
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The Legend of Kevin |
Reeve, Philip |
McIntyre, Sarah |
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The Eleventh Trade |
Hollingsworth, Alyssa |
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The Lost Magician |
Torday Piers |
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The Star-Spun Webb |
O'Hart, Sinead |
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The Phoenix of Persia |
Clayton, Sally Pomme |
Sharif ,Amin Hassanzadeh |
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The Dog Who Lost His Bark |
Colfer, Eoin |
Lynch, P.J |
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Cloud Boy |
Williams, Marcia |
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The Dam |
Almond, David |
Pinfold, Levi |
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A Year of Nature Poems |
Coehlo, Joseph |
Judd, Kelly Louise |
11-14+ Longlist Titles
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Title |
Author |
Illustrator |
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Monsters |
Dogar, Sharon |
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No Fixed Address |
Nielsen, Susin |
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Pay Attention Carter Jones |
Schmidt, Gary D |
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One Shot |
Landman, Tanya |
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Lark |
McGowan, Anthony |
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Weight of a Thousand Feathers |
Conaghan, Brian |
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Toffee |
Crossan, sarah |
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Gifted, talented and Me |
Sutcliff, William |
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The Key to Flambards |
Newbery, Linda |
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Bone Talk |
Gourlay, Candy |
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Ghost |
Reynolds, jason |
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The Skylark's War |
McKay, Hilary |
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Everything All At Once |
Camden, Steve |
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Catching Teller Crow |
Kwaymullina, Ambelin |
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Lenny's Book of Everything |
Foxlee,Karen |
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Lampie and the Children of the Sea |
Schaap, Annet |
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The Burning |
Bates, laura |
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And the Ocean was our Sky |
Ness, Patrick |
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Louis Undercover |
Britt, Fanny |
Arsenault, Isabelle |
Information Books Longlist Titles
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Title |
Author |
Illustrator |
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When the Stars Come Out |
Edwards, Nicola |
Cartwright, Lucy |
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Born to Ride |
Theule, Larissa |
Garrity-Riley, Kelsey |
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Mary and Frankenstein |
Bailey, Linda |
Sardὰ,Jũlia |
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Once Upon a Raindrop |
Carter, James |
Nomoco |
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Child of St Kilda |
Waters, Beth |
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The Lost Book of Adventure |
Keen, Teddy |
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The Element in the Room |
Barfield, Mike |
Humphrey, Lauren |
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A Book of Bears |
Viggers, Katie |
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Counting on Katherine |
Becker, Helaine |
Phumiruk, Dow |
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Free to be Me |
Dom & Ink |
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On the Origin of Species |
Radeva, Sabina |
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Questions I am Asked about the Holocaust |
Fried, Heidi |
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A History of Pictures for Children |
Hockney,David and Gayford, Martin |
Blake, Rose |
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Bright Sparks |
O’Doherty, Owen |
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Life: The First Four Billion Years |
Jenkins,Martin |
Baker-Smith, Grahame |
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Absolutely Everything |
Lloyd, Christopher |
Forshaw, Andy |
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Eye Spy: Wild Ways Animals See the World |
Duprat,Guillaume |
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Boy oh Boy |
Leek, Cliff |
Rohlmann, Bene |