Klaus Flugge Prize

Resource type: Book awards

Price band: Free

Key stage: KS1, KS2

Region(s): All of UK

The Klaus Flugge Prize is awarded annually to the most promising and exciting newcomer to children’s picture book illustration. The award is judged by a panel of past winners, illustrators and children’s book experts.

Read our shortlist announcements for the Klaus Flugge Prize 2026.

Timetable:

The 2026 shortlist will be announced on 14th May.
The winner is announced in September

Cost: Free.

About the Klaus Flugge Prize: The Klaus Flugge Prize was established in 2016 to honour Klaus Flugge, founder of Andersen Press and an influential figure in children’s picture books.

Further resources:

Download free teaching notes created by CLPE to explore the shortlisted titles from previous years. There are teaching notes to accompany the shortlists for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
The Power of Pictures from CLPE explores the important role that picture books play in children’s reading and writing development across the primary age range. Teachers can access free teaching sequences and author interviews for a range of titles and sign up for a Power of Pictures CPD course with author/illustrator Marta Altés starting on 5th May 2026.
Find a selection of high-quality picture books that can be used to support cross-curricular planning and promote critical thinking across EYFS, KS1 and KS2 from Mat Tobin, former Klaus Flugge Prize judge and Senior Lecturer in Education: Primary English and Children’s Literature at Oxford Brookes University.
Children’s authors and illustrators explore all things picture books on the Picture Book Den blog.
Other picture book awards include the FCBG Children’s Book Award, Oscar’s Book Prize, the Shropshire Bookfest Book Award, the Spark! School Book Awards, the UKLA Book Awards, the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration.