Submission Information for Authors and Illustrators
If you are a publisher, author or illustrator and would like to submit a book to be considered for the Red House Children's Book Award 2009, please read on to find out how.
Background
- Established in 1980 (formerly The Children's Book Award)
- Awarded in three categories
- Owned and co-ordinated by the Federation of Children's Book Groups
- Sponsored by Red House
- Judged entirely by children from shortlist to final over-all winner
- Top 50 titles each year published in the Pick of the Year list
- Top ten authors, illustrators and their publishers invited to the Award Ceremony in June
- Top ten authors and illustrators receive portfolios of children's letters and pictures
- Category winners receive an engraved silver bowl
- Overall winner holds an oak and silver trophy for a year and keeps an engraved silver acorn
Submission Criteria
- Any work of fiction first published in the UK in 2008 including titles previously published abroad
- Re-tellings of folk/religious stories with significant original input
- Ideally you should provide 12 copies of each title
- Books to be sent on publication
- Closing date December 31 2008
To make a submisison please first get in touch with us by filling in the below detials. Someone will be in touch on how to submit your work:
