Category: 2025 Award

  • Photos from the 2025 Little Rebels Award Ceremony

    Our 2025 award ceremony was held on October 1st at the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education in London. We were delighted to welcome shortlisted authors Elle McNicoll, Sarah Hagger-Holt, Cathy Jenkins and SF Layzell, who took part in a rich and thought-provoking panel discussion chaired by Darren Chetty. At the end of the evening…

  • THE FIGHTS THAT MAKE US by Sarah Hagger-Holt is the 2025 Little Rebels Award winner

    Congratulations to Sarah Hagger-Holt, winner of the 2025 Little Rebels Award for THE FIGHTS THAT MAKE US. From the modern-day experiences of LGBTQ+ young people to the historic struggle against Section 28, this cross-generational story honours the activists of the 1980s and 90s – and those still fighting today. Phoebe Demeger, Librarian at the Centre…

  • The Little Rebels Award 2025 Shortlist

      On behalf of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers, we are delighted to announce the Little Rebels Award shortlist for 2025 Six books to speak to a generation of young activists and critical thinkers. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors and illustrators! The winner will be revealed on the 1st October. Cottonopolis by S F…

  • The Little Rebels Award 2025 Longlist

      The longlist is here! From the big publishing houses to the smallest presses, a record number of publishers submitted to the award this year, and while the genre-spanning submissions touched on social justice issues in a variety of ways, the longlisted titles are those where the radical content formed the very bones of the…

  • Submissions for the 2025 award are open!

    On behalf of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers, we are delighted to announce that submissions for the 2025 Little Rebels Award are officially open! Publishers have until 3rd March 2025 to submit their most rebellious children’s books for consideration. The shortlist will be revealed in July 2025, and the winner announced at a ceremony in…