Category: 2023 Award

  • 2023 Award Ceremony

    Pictures from our 2023 Award Ceremony! With credit to our photographer Lily Slaymaker. The event was held at the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, on Wednesday July 19th. Patrice Lawrence was crowned the winner for her novel Needle, and presented with the award by Little Rebels Judge, Farrah Serroukh. A highlight of the evening…

  • NEEDLE by Patrice Lawrence is the 2023 Little Rebels Award Winner

    NEEDLE, by Patrice Lawrence, published by Barrington Stoke, has won the prize for the 2023 Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction. Needle tells the story of Charlene Yewless, a young, looked after, teenager who gets caught up in the criminal justice system through a single, grief-driven, act. Charlene’s journey spotlights a range of urgent…

  • The 2023 Little Rebels Award Shortlist is Revealed

    On behalf of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers, we are delighted to announce the 2023 Little Rebels Award shortlist! AJAY & THE MUMBAI SUN by Varsha Shah (Chicken House Books) FIGHT BACK by A. M. Dassu (Scholastic) I AM NEFERTITI by Annemarie Anang and Natelle Quek (Five Quills) MAYOR BUNNY’S CHOCOLATE TOWN by Elys Dolan…

  • The 2023 Little Rebels Award Longlist

    On behalf of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers, we are delighted to reveal the 2023 Little Rebels Award longlist! The award celebrates radical fiction for children aged 0-12. Read on to learn more about this year’s longlisted titles. The shortlist will be announced on Monday 24th April. MALOLA’S MUSEUM ADVENTURES by Joelle Avelino (Tate Publishing)…

  • Submissions Open for the 2023 Little Rebels Award

    Submissions are now open for the 11th Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction, worth £2000 to the winner. The Little Rebels Award celebrates UK children’s books for readers age 0-12 which promote social equality and social justice. Last year’s prize went to Sarah Hagger-Holt for Proud of Me (Usborne Books 2021), a coming-of-age novel…