2024 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize

Winners have been announced for the 2024 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, including titles of genre interest.

Older Readers’

  • WINNER: Thieves’ Gambit, Kayvion Lewis (Simon & Schuster)
  • Girl, Goddess, Queen, Bea Fitzgerald (Penguin Random House Children’s UK)

Younger Readers’

  • WINNER: Greenwild: The World Behind the Door, Pari Thomson (Pan Macmillan)
  • Attack of the Vampire Sheep!, Emily-Jane Clark, illustrated by Jeff Crowther (Scholastic)
  • Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend, Lizzie Huxley-Jones (Knights of Media)

Overall Winner:

  • WINNER: Greenwild: The World Behind the Door, Pari Thomson (Pan Macmillan)

Category winners each receive £2,000, and the overall Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year winner receives an additional £3,000.

For more information, see the Waterstones website.


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