2018: Kick
Author: Mitch Johnson
Editor: Rebecca Hill & Becky Walker
Publisher: Usborne
The Other 2018 Nominees
A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars
by Yaba Badoe, edited by Fiona Kennedy (Head of Zeus: Zephyr)
The Starman and Me
by Sharon Cohen, edited by Sarah Lambert (Quercus Children’s Books)
Fish Boy
by Chloe Daykin, edited by Leah Thaxton (Faber)
Knighthood for Beginners
by Elys Dolan, edited by Clare Whitston and Elv Moody (Oxford)
Potter’s Boy
by Tony Mitton, edited by Anthony Hinton (David Fickling Books)
The City of Secret Rivers
by Jacob Sager Weinstein, edited by Gill Evans (Walker Books)
2017: Beetle Boy
Author: M.G. Leonard
Editors: Barry Cunningham and Rachel Leyshon
Publisher: Chicken House
The Other 2017 Nominees
Cogheart
by Peter Bunzi, edited by Rebecca Hill (Usborne)
We are Giants
by Amber Lee Dodd, edited by Niamh Mulvey, (Quercus)
Little Bits of Sky
by Sue Durrant, edited by Kirsty Stansfield (Nosy Crow)
The Bubble Boy
by Stewart Foster, edited by Rachel Mann (Simon and Shuster)
The Girl of Ink and Stars
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, edited by Rachel Leyshon (Chicken House)
Riverkeep
by Martin Stewart, edited by Shannon Cullen and Sharyn November (Penguin Random House)