Jaime is judging The Week Junior’s Book Awards!

by | May 1, 2025 | News

the week junior's book awards

We are very excited to say that Jaime, our founder, has been invited to be on the judging panel of The Week Junior’s amazing book awards! The awards celebrate the best of children’s literature, and we’re thrilled to be a part of it.

The Week Junior is our favourite magazine, and they publish amazing content for 8-14 year olds.

The Book Awards receive submissions from all sorts of wonderful authors, illustrators and publishers, across 13 different categories. The awards highlight the best in books for younger readers, and help children feel inspired to discover their next read.

Jaime is joining a panel of amazing judges, including the Editor of The Week Junior, Vanessa Harris, CBeebies’ George Webster, singer Geri Halliwell Horner and actor Rhys Stephenson, alongside lots of other fantastic people.

The shortlisted books will be announced on June 3rd, and open up the voting for the Children’s Choice Award. Readers also get to decide the winner of the Children’s Book Cover of the Year Award! Winners will be announced on September 29th at the awards ceremony.

2025’s categories include:

  • Children’s Audiobook of the Year
  • Children’s Book Cover of the Year
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Animals and Nature
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Wellbeing
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Hobbies and Interests
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Breakthrough (in partnership with World Book Day)
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Graphic Novel
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Younger Fiction (5-9 year-olds, in partnership with Lovereading4kids)
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Older Fiction (9-12 year-olds)
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Factual
  • Children’s Picture Book of the Year
  • Children’s Poetry Book of the Year
  • Children’s Book of the Year: STEM (in association with The Week Junior Science+Nature)
  • Children’s Choice

Among last year’s winners were Adam Kay, G.M. Linton. Louie Stowell and Adam Rutherford.

The Week Junior’s book awards were first established in 2023 to address the need for discussion around children’s literature and to show how amazing emerging and established children’s authors are.

Lats year’s winners were:

  • Children’s Book Cover of the Year – The Kingdom Over the Sea by Zohra Nabi & Tom Clohosy Cole (Simon & Schuster)
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Younger Fiction 6-9 – Pizza Pete and the Perilous Potions by Carrie Sellon & Sarah Horne (Guppy Books)
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Older Fiction 9-12 – Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan (Andersen Press)
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Hobbies and Interests – Rhinoceros Can’t Draw… But You Can! by Luke Newell and Mr Griff (Noodle Juice)
  • Children’s Audiobook of the Year –Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Ruling the World by Louie Stowell and narrated by Ben Willbond (WF Howes)
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Breakthrough – My Name is Sunshine Simpson by G M Linton & Fuuji Takashi (Usborne)
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Graphic Novel – Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martin, publisher (Guppy Books)
  • Children’s Choice – Guinness World Records 2024 by Craig Glenday & Rod Hunt (Guinness World Records)
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Non-Fiction – Welcome to Our Table: A Celebration of What Children Eat Everywhere by Laura Mucha & Ed Smith (Nosy Crow)
  • Children’s Book of the Year: STEM – Where Are You Really From?  by Adam Rutherford, E L Norry & Adam Ming, (Hachette Children’s Group)
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Animals and Nature – The Tyrannosaur’s Feathers by Jonathan Emmett, Dr Adam S Smith & Stieven Van der Poorten (UCLan)
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Picturebook – Amy Gets Eaten by Adam Kay & Henry Paker (Penguin Random House)
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Wellbeing – Friendship Survival Guide by Caroline Young (Usborne)
  • Children’s Book of the Year: Poetry – A Dinosaur at the Bus Stop: Poems to Have Fun With by Kate Wakeling & Eilidh Muldoon (Otter-Barry Books)