2012 Shortlist Revealed!

The Sheffield library service – along with young readers, parents and teaching staff across the city – have been busy over the past year, reading as many books as possible, in order to make sure this year’s shortlist represents the very best in current children’s literature.

In January we finally whittled down all the hundreds of books competing for a place on the shortlist to the final thirty; with six titles for the Baby Book Award, Picture Book category,Young Adult category, and this year’s Special Category: Quick Reads. There are another three books each in the Shorter Novel and Longer Novel categories; two collections aimed at our junior school readers.

We're confident that we have chosen the very best books on offer, and hope you’ll have a great time reading them and voting for your favourite!

…And now here are all the shortlisted titles…

Baby Book Award

• The Acorn, by Edward Gibbs
• Fluff and Billy do Everything Together by Nicola Killen
• Lulu's Lunch by Camilla Reid and Ailie Busby
• In the Bath by Leslie Patricelli
• My First Words by Roger Priddy
• Little Frog by Katie Saunders

Picture Books

• Anna Hibiscus' Song by Atinuke and Lauren Tobia
• The Great Shepp Shenanigans by Peter Bently and Mei Matsuoka
• A Place to Call Hame by Alexis Deacon and Viviane Schwarz
• The Pirates Next Door by Jonny Duddle
• The Big Snuggle Up by Brian Patten and Nicola Bayley
• Dear Fairy Godmother by Michael Rosen and Nick Sharratt

Shorter Novels

• Earwig and the Witch by Diana Wynne Jones
• Agatha Parrot by Poskitt Kjartan
• Cartoon Kid by Jeremy Strong

Longer Novels

• Muncle Trogg by Janet Foxley
• The Snow Merchant by Sam Gayton
• One Dog and his Boy by Eva Ibbotson

Young Adult

• Flip by Martyn Bedford
• In the Bag by Jim Carrigton
• Heart Burn by Anne Cassidy
• A Year without Autumn by Liz Kessler
• Mister Creecher by Chris Priestley
• Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

Quick Reads

• A Monster Ate My Marmite by Eric Brown
• Bomb by Jim Eldridge
• Street Heores: Run Aways by Joe Layburn
• The Fall by Anthony McGowan
• Scrum by Tom Palmer
• The Gun by Bali Rai

More information about this year's titles will be added to this blog shortly, along with links to resources to get the most out of this year's shortlists - so keep your eyes peeled! We would love for you to get involved and leave your comments on the blog - what you enjoyed (or didn't!) about the titles you'll be reading over the coming months. Good luck with the shortlist and happy reading!!!