Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award

<p>Children will help judge the new prize along with children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce<br><br>• <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/24/the-childrens-booker-prize-will-tell-young-people-that-they-matter">‘The Children’s Booker prize will tell kids that they matter’: Frank Cottrell-Boyce</a></p><p>The Booker prize foundation has launched a major new literary award, the Children’s Booker prize, offering £50,000 for the best fiction written for readers aged eight to 12.</p><p>The new award will launch in 2026, with the first winner announced in early 2027. It will be decided by a mixed panel of adult and child judges, a first for a Booker award. The inaugural chair of judges will be Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the children’s author and current children’s laureate. He will be joined by two other adult judges, who will help select a shortlist of eight books before three child judges are recruited to help decide the winner.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/24/booker-prize-launches-childrens-booker-frank-cottrell-boyce">Continue reading...</a>