Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2019 – Shortlist

This year marks 15 years of The Waterstones Children’s Book Prize which celebrates children’s and teenage literature. This year’s shortlist, like every previous year, is made up of books chosen by Waterstones’ own booksellers. The category winners and overall Children’s Book of the Year 2019 will be announced soon, on March 21st 2019.

Illustrated Books Shortlist:

100 Dogs

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

Julian is a Mermaid

Mini Rabbit Not Lost

The King Who Banned the Dark

The Girls

Younger Fiction Shortlist:

Brightstorm: A Sky-Ship Adventure – Vashti Hardy

The Boy at the Back of the Class – Onjali Q. Rauf

The Boy Who Grew Dragons – Andy Shepherd

The House with Chicken Legs – Sophie Anderson

The Mystery of the Colour Thief – Ewa Jozefkowicz

The Train to Impossible Places

Older Fiction Shortlist:

A Winter’s Promise

Boy 87

Children of Blood and Bone

Me Mam. Me Dad. Me.

The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo

The Truth About Lies