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The shortlists for the Channel Island Book Awards have been revealed.
The awards, which aim to develop a love of reading in Channel Island children, are a collaboration between Jersey Library and the Guilles-Alles Library in Guernsey.
They were first launched in 2019 and feature two categories for young children to vote on: Children’s Book of the Year and Picture Book of the Year.
They’re being asked to read the books in the shortlists and vote on the winner by Friday 16 July. You can vote for the winner online and copies of the books will be available to borrow from the library.
"We're really excited sharing this year's shortlists with Jersey schoolchildren. There were so many great stories nominated that we had a tough job narrowing our choices down to just five in each category," Judge Marc Sweeney, who is a Customer Services Assistant at Jersey Library, said.
"After much debating over Zoom with our fellow judges in Guernsey, we settled on what we feel could be our best awards line-up yet!"
Last year's winner of the main award was Lisa Thompson’s 'The Day I Was Erased', the story of an 11-year-old boy, who suddenly finds himself erased from his life – as if he never existed – and must find a way to reverse it.
Troofriend by Kirsten Applebaum
The Unstoppable Letty Pegg by Iszi Lawrence
The Beast and the Bethany by Jack Meggitt-Phillips
The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates by Jenny Pearson
Llama Out Loud! By Annabelle Sami
Where the Sea Meets the Sky by Peter Bentley & Reiko Sekiguchi
I’m Sticking with You by Smitri Halls & Steve Small
The Leaf Thief by Alice Hemming & Nicola Slater
Mabel and the Mountain by Kim Hillyard
Perdu by Richard Jones
The awards are sponsored by Ravenscroft.
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