Current Prizes

BookTrust prizes and awards celebrate the best children's writing from the UK and beyond.

Our awards and prizes cover a wide range of genres and themes for children and celebrate individual books, as well as a whole lifetime's achievement in literature.

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A child clapping at a BookTrust Storytime event

BookTrust Storytime Prize

This prize celebrates and promotes the best books for sharing with young children. We are looking for books which have wide appeal to parents and carers across our diverse nation, and for stories which can be read and enjoyed over and over again.

John Agard with the BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award © David Bebber

Lifetime Achievement Award

The BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award is given to a children's writer or illustrator whose body of work merits recognition for a lifetime's achievement in children's literature.

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Prizes archive

Bill Bailey and Michael Rosen at the 2009 Roald Dahl Funny Prize

Our previous awards

Get information about the prizes BookTrust used to be involved with, from the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction to the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.

Waterstones Children's Laureate

Author, poet and playwright Joseph Coelho, the Waterstones Children's Laureate for 2022-24.

Find out about Joseph Coelho

Find out everything that's going on with the 12th Waterstones Children's Laureate, Joseph Coelho, as he takes on the job from 2022-24.

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Illustration by Erika Meza of an older child reading in an armchair

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