Apply to be on a BookTrust book selection panel

All books that BookTrust gifts to children and school libraries are chosen through a selection panel. Our panels include Early Years practitioners, teachers, school librarians, other book experts and consultants.

If you would like to be considered for our selection panel, please download the form for the programme you are interested in. Once you have completed the form, email it to [email protected] before the specified closing date.

Further details for each panel are included on the forms. Please ensure you review the requirements of being involved in the panel before you apply. 

Bookstart Additional Needs

Bookstart gifts books to babies and toddlers with additional needs such as children who are deaf, have a sight impairment or disabilities that impact on or delay the development of their fine motor skills.

Bookstart Toddler and Pre-schooler selection panel

One of BookTrust's top priorities is to support children aged 0-5 whose families may need more help to make shared reading a regular part of their lives in the early years. As part of our commitment to do more for families in the early years, Bookstart Toddler and Pre-schooler have been designed to support and excite families of children aged 1-4 from lower income backgrounds to share stories together.

We will be selecting four early years books for two family packs (one for 1-2 year olds and one for 3-4 year olds) and additionally 4-6 new titles for Storyteller packs, which will go out to early years practitioners for use in group sessions.

Bookbuzz selection panels

 Bookbuzz is curated programme of books and resources for secondary schools to encourage young people to get reading. Bookbuzz gives students the chance to choose and keep a book they’ll love from a collection of 16 titles, newly selected each year by our panel of BookTrust reading experts, practising teachers and school librarians.