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Win all the books on the BookTrust Storytime Prize 2027 longlist!

28 May 2026 

We’re delighted to announce the books longlisted for our BookTrust Storytime Prize 2027 – and give you the chance to win them all.

We’re delighted to unveil the 21 books longlisted for the BookTrust Storytime Prize 2027!

The BookTrust Storytime Prize celebrates brilliant books that are ideal for sharing with 0–5s, and these titles all definitely fit the bill. And even more excitingly, we’re giving you the chance to win the lot!

  • Calling All Bears! by Diana Murray and Alex Willmore (Boxer Books)
  • Googly Eyes: I Am the Moon by Teresa Bellón (Boxer Books)
  • The Turtles Who Turned the Tide by Rachel Bright and Jim Field (Orchard Books)
  • Tiny Tiger Says Why Can’t I? by Smriti Halls and Steve Small (Simon & Schuster Children’s Books) 
  • All the Wonderful Ways to Move by Laura Baker and Sandra de la Prada (Little Tiger)
  • Rescue Crew by Suzy Senior and Mike Byrne (Farshore)
  • Frank the Pizza by Eoin McLaughlin and Mike Byrne (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
  • Frank is a Butterfly by Alex Latimer (Oxford University Press)
  • Little Cub’s Club Squish! by Tim Bugbird and Ian Worrall-Dutton (Make Believe Ideas)
  • Wrong Time Rooster by Michael Parkin (Flying Eye Books)
  • Oh Dear, Look What I Got! By Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury (Walker Books)
  • We’re Going on a Dino Hunt by Yasmin Bond and Vicky Lommatzsch (Two Windmills)
  • How to Find a Yeti by Matt Hunt (Nosy Crow)
  • Marching Band by Kael Tudor and Kate Hindley (Nosy Crow)
  • Feed Your Monster by Anna Milbourne and Anna Süßbauer (Usborne)
  • When I am Kind by Paula Bowles (Childs Play International Ltd)
  • The Great Unicorn Rescue by Diane Ewen (Macmillan Children’s Books)
  • Bear’s Nap by Emily Gravett (Two Hoots, Macmillan Children’s Books)
  • Taking the Long Way Home by Jake Hope and Brian Fitzgerald (Scallywag Press)
  • Balloon’s Big Adventure by Carly Gledhill (Andersen Press)
  • Priya Mistry and the Lost Treasure by Babita Sharma and Ali Pye (Orchard Books)

Soon, we’ll be sharing the five books that have made the shortlist and will be part of our BookTrust Storytime programme this year.

Those five books will be sent to libraries across the country along with accompanying resources to help encourage families with young children to visit their local library.

And families and libraries will then vote for their favourite book, with the winner being announced next year.

For now, if you fancy getting your hands on all of the BookTrust Storytime Prize longlisted books, simply answer the question below and leave your details before the closing date of 11pm on Thursday 25 June. Good luck!

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  1. Participants must be at least 18 years old to enter.
  2. To enter the competition, you must be a resident of England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
  3. The competition is not open to employees (or members of their immediate families) of BookTrust.
  4. Only one entry per person.
  5. Entries must be submitted by 11pm on Thursday 25 June 2025.
  6. There will be three winners selected at random (from all eligible entries).
  7. If a chosen winner does not respond to correspondence within one week, a new winner will be selected.
  8. Our decision will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
  9. The prize will not be transferable to another person.
  10. No part of the prize is exchangeable for cash or any other prize.
  11. The prize is run by BookTrust of No. 1 Aire Street, Leeds, LS1 4PR. However, the prize will be sent out by a third party and by entering you acknowledge that your details will be passed on to them, solely for the purposes of administering this competition.
  12. Prizes will be sent out to winners by post. However, BookTrust cannot be held responsible for any prizes lost, damaged or stolen after they have been sent.
  13. Where a third party is supplying a prize, BookTrust accepts no responsibility for inaccuracy of any prize description, and the third party is responsible for prize fulfilment.
  14. By entering you are agreeing to the terms and conditions in our privacy statement.
  15. BookTrust reserves the right to amend the competition end date at any time.
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