The Sheffield Children's Book Award is brought to you by Sheffield Libraries and is a celebration of our favourite children's books of the year! This Award is a way to share with you books that children will love to read, whilst also promoting inclusion, diversity and empathy in great stories.
Right about now we would ordinarily be counting up your votes for this year's shortlisted titles, readying for our ceremony in November, but like many things, Covid-19 has meant a change of plans. Don't fear, the book award is still happening, but we've moved it over to next year where we will hopefully have a bumper double, and most importantly safe, celebration of titles in 2021
However, we still have an exciting bunch of beautiful books that we want to promote and enjoy on this year's shortlist so for the next few weeks we'll be blogging about each category of shortlisted titles and giving you a closer look at each one.
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Baby Books
First up, we have the Baby Book category, a selection aimed at engaging our very youngest of readers.
Wake Up, Farm!
Published by DK Publishing.
Written and illustrated by Gareth Lucas
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- Lift the flaps to wake up the animals on the farm, and look out for the pop-up surprises! Join the noisy cockerel as he visits pigs, cows and more on a beautiful morning on the farm in this lovely interactive board book. Children will delight in the collage-like illustrations of their favourite farmyard animals, but renowned artist Jonny Lamber and will love joining in with the story as they visit characters one by one. The sturdy board-book format is perfect for little hands and fun pop-ups under flaps will entertain children again and again.
The Happy Snappy Shark
Published by Little Tiger Press
Illustrated by Stella Baggott
- Join happy, snappy crab, speedy shark and sickly octopus in this lively rhyming book, which features a fun pop-up on every page. With board page and heavy-duty board pop-ups, this book is perfect for introducing pop-ups to little ones.
Baby's Very First Sparkly Play Book
Designed by Josephine Thompson
Published by Usborne
- A lovely first book to share and talk about with a baby, full of sparkly scenes including a stunning fireworks display, under the sea creatures, fire-breathing dragons and lots more. Babies and toddlers will love following the fingertrails, peeping through the holes and exploring the cut-out shapes on every page.
Join us on the blog next week as we share with you the Toddler Books ....
Discover More
To discover all the shortlisted titles download our new Recommended Reads Booklet (PDF).
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