2022 Book for Children Results
2022 Winners
| Position | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | The Box of Life | Emily Grice |
| 2nd | The Barrow Street Bunch | Sarah Merrett |
| 3rd | The Midwinter Child | Felicity Reid |
| Local Prize | The Thin Land | Sarah Hall |
Our thanks go to the shortlist team, to Lucy Cuthew our 2022 Book for Children Judge and to all those entrants who made the competition so tough for the team.
Lucy Cuthew is the author of more than 30 books for children. Her debut novel Blood Moon (Walker Books), a YA verse novel, was nominated for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal, shortlisted for the 2021 Wales Book of the Year Award Amazing Book Awards and selected as a USBBY Outstanding International Book.
Lucy is a lecturer on the MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University and speaks regularly on the BBC about children’s literature.
Competitions Archive
Winners of our previous Competitions