Red House Children's Book Award

The Federation of Children's Book Groups Children's Book Award is a set of annual literary prizes for children's books published in the U.K. during the preceding calendar year. It recognises one "Overall" winner and one book in each of three categories: Books for Younger Children, Books for Younger Readers, and Books for Older Readers. The selections are made entirely by children, which is unique among British literary awards. It was previously known as the Red House Children's Book Award.

The Federation of Children's Book Groups owns and coordinates the Award, which it inaugurated in 1981 as the Children's Book Award. Its purpose has been "to celebrate the books that children themselves love reading." From 2001 to 2015 it was sponsored by the mail order bookshop Red House —a brand owned by bookselling company The Book People.

The 2017 Top Ten has been announced:

Books for Younger Children: 'Chicken Nugget' written by Michelle Robinson and illustrated by Tom McLaughlin, published by Puffin

'Oi Dog!' written by Kes Gray and Claire Gray, illustrated by Jim Field and published by Hodder

'Grandad's Island' written and illustrated by Benji Davies and published by Simon and Schuster

'Gracie Grabbit and the Tiger' written and illustrated by Helen Stephens and published by Scholastic

Books for Younger Readers 'The Accidental Pirates (Voyage to Magical North) written by Claire Fayer and published by Macmillan

'An Eagle in the Snow' written by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by Michael Foreman and published by Harper Collins

'The Jam Doughnut that Ruined my Life' written by Mark Lowery, illustrated by Hannah Shaw and published by Piccadilly

Books for Older Readers 'One' written by Sarah Crossan and published by Bloomsbury

'Car-Jacked' written by Ali Sparkes and published by OUP

'Mistletoe and Murder' written by Robin Stevens and published by Penguin Random House

The 2017 winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony to be held in London on Saturday 10 June 2017.

The 2016 Overall Winner was from the Books for Younger Readers and was won by Pamela Butchart and illustrator Thomas Flintham with My Head Teacher is a Vampire Rat, published by Nosy Crow.

The 2015 Overall Winner was from the Books for Younger Children and was announced at the Imagine Festival in February. The Winners were Oliver Jeffeys and Drew Daywalt with 'The Days the Crayons Quit', published by Harper Collins.

The 2014 Overall winner was from the Older Readers category, announced in mid-February 2014: The 5th Wave, written by Rick Yancey and published by Penguin Books.

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