Peters Children's Book of the Year 2025 - Peters
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The Peters’ Children’s Book of the Year Awards are awarded annually to celebrate the best of children’s fiction and non-fiction published in the UK. The awards’ mission is to celebrate and champion the power of books to inspire children to read for pleasure, ensuring all children, regardless of background, have access to the opportunities that reading holds.

The awards combine a longlisting and shortlisting process by Peters’ expert librarians and children’s book specialists, with a public vote to determine the winning titles. 

We celebrate publishing in four categories: Picture Books, Junior Fiction, Teen fiction and Non-Fiction. Browse the 2026 longlists in each of these four categories below.

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Awards Mission

The Peters’ Children’s Book of the Year Awards are awarded annually to celebrate the best of children’s fiction and non-fiction published in the UK. The awards’ mission is to celebrate and champion the power of books to inspire children to read for pleasure, ensuring all children, regardless of background, have access to the opportunities that reading holds.

We are seeking books that provide an outstanding reading experience for children and young people, that will inspire more children to pick up a book and read.

We celebrate publishing in four categories: Picture BooksJunior FictionTeen fiction and Non-Fiction.

Read the full Awards Mission and learn more about the longlisting and shortlisting process here.

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