Scottish Children's Book Awards: 2016 shortlist

Photo credit: Rob McDougall.

The shortlist for next year's Scottish Children's Book Awards, managed by Scottish Book Trust in partnership with Creative Scotland, has been announced today. Above, you can see pupils from Royal Mile Nursery, Flora Stevenson Primary and Holyrood High demonstrating their support for the nominees on Edinburgh's Calton Hill.

Over the next five months, children throughout Scotland will be reading the three shortlisted books in their age category and voting for their favourite.

Bookbug Readers (3-7 years)

(Every child in Primary 1 will receive a free copy of each Bookbug title during Book Week Scotland in November.)

• Never Tickle a Tiger by Pamela Butchart and Marc Boutavant (Bloomsbury)
• Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit Book Burglar by Emily MacKenzie (Bloomsbury)
• Mouse’s First Night at Moonlight School by Simon Puttock and Ali Pye (Nosy Crow)

Younger Readers (8-11 years)

• The Nowhere Emporium by Ross Mackenzie (Floris)
• The Mysteries of Ravenstorm Island: The Lost Children by Gillian Philip (Orchard)
• The Fastest Boy in the World by Elizabeth Laird (Macmillan)

Older Readers (12-16 years)

• Black Dove White Raven by Elizabeth Wein (Egmont)
• The Piper by Danny Weston (the pseudonym of Philip Caveney) (Andersen)
• Trouble on Cable Street by Joan Lingard (Catnip)

As well as voting, children can also enter book review and book trailer competitions. To find out how to involve your class or book group, keep an eye on the SBT website. Finally, CALL Scotland has again worked with Scottish Book Trust and the publishers to create accessible digital versions of the nine shortlisted books for children and young people with physical, visual and reading or dyslexic difficulties, who can’t read the paper books. These are available free of charge from CALL Scotland.