Supporters of the Waterstones Children's Laureate

The Waterstones Children's Laureate is funded by Arts Council England. 

2024-2026 nominating bodies

The Childrens Laureate steering group invited nominations from the following organisations:

• Action for Children's Arts
• Amnesty International  
• Apple and Snakes
• Aquila Magazine
• Arts Council England
• Arts Council Northern Ireland
• Arts Council Wales
• Arvon Foundation
• ASCEL (Association of Senior Children's and Education Librarians)
• Authorfy
• Authors Aloud
• Aye Write Festival (Wee Write - Children's Festival)
• Barnes Children's Festival
• Bath Children's Literature Festival
• Book Council of Wales / Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
• Bookfest Shrewsbury
• Books for Keeps
• Booksellers Association - Children's Group
• Bradford Literary Festival
• Brighton Festival
• British Council
• Cardiff Children's Literature Festival
• Cheltenham Literature Festival
• Children's Books History Society
• CILIP
• CLPE
• Commonword
• Coram Beanstalk
• Creative Scotland
• Discover Story Centre
• Edinburgh Children's Literature Festival
• Education Authority Northern Ireland
• Empathy Lab
• English PEN
• Essex Book Festival
• Federation of Children's Books Groups (FCBG)
• First News
• First Story
• Forward Arts Foundation
• Grimm and Co
• Hay Festival
• Henley Children's Literary Festival
• House of Illustration
• IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People)
• Imagine Children's Festival
• Inclusive Minds
• Independent Publishers Group (IPG)
• Just Imagine Story Centre
• Letterbox Library

• Libraries Connected
• Libraries NI (Northern Ireland Library Authority)
• Literature Wales
• Literature Works
• llkley Literature Children’s Festival
• Love Reading 4 Kids
• Manchester Children's Book Festival  
• Ministry of Stories
• Moat Brae
• National Centre for Writing (previously Writer's Centre Norwich)
• National Literacy Trust
• NCRCL (Roehampton University)
• New Writing North
• New Writing South
• Northern Children's Book Festival
• Oxford Literary Festival
• Picture Hooks
• Pop Up Projects CIC
• RNIB Library (Royal National Institute of Blind People)
• School Libraries Group (SLG)
• School Library Association (SLA)
• Scottish Book Trust
• Seven Stories
• Society of Authors
• Society of Children's Books Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI)
• Spread the Word
• The AOI (Association of Illustrators)
• The Children's Bookshow
• The Children's Literacy Charity
• The Children's Media Foundation
• The National Association for Teaching of English (NATE)
• The Poetry Archive
• The Poetry Society
• The Publisher Association Children's Group
• The Reader
• The Reading Agency
• The Royal Society of Literature
• The Story Museum
• The Writer's Guild of Great Britain
• Toppsta
• UKLA (UK Literacy Association)
• Week Junior
• Words of Colour
• World Book Day
• WRD magazine
• Writing East Midlands
• Writing on the Wall
• Writing Squad
• Writing West Midlands
• Youth Libraries Group

Lead sponsors

Waterstones are the lead sponsors of the 2024-2026 award.

Publishers

We would like to thank the following publishers for supporting the Children’s Laureate

Primary publisher supporters:

• Macmillan Children’s Books  

  

Additional publisher supporters: 

• Arcturus
• Barefoot Books
• Bloomsbury
• Bonnier
• Books 2 Doors Limited
• Bounce Marketing
• Boxer Books
• Chicken House
• Child's Play
• David Fickling
• Faber & Faber
• Farshore
• Flying Eye Books
• Hachette Children's Group
• HarperCollins
• Little Tiger Press
• Magic Cat
• Michael O'Mara Books
• Otter Barry Books
• Oxford University Press
• Penguin Random House
• Pushkin
• Quarto
• Scholastic
• Simon and Schuster
• Sweet Cherry Publishing
• Union Square & Co.
• Usborne
• Walker