UKLA Book Awards
From UKLA
Resource type: Book awards
Price band: Free
Key stage: KS1, KS2, KS3
Region(s): All of UK
The UKLA Book Awards are the only national children’s book award judged entirely by teachers.
The aim of the awards is to celebrate the role of books for young people in all educational settings and to promote teachers’ knowledge of recently-published, high-quality children’s books that reflect a broad range of perspectives and experiences. The teacher judges are made up of UKLA members but the accompanying Shadowing Scheme is open to all practitioners.
There are four award categories:
- Fiction and Poetry for 3-6 year-olds.
- Fiction and Poetry for 7-10+ year-olds.
- Fiction and Poetry for 11-14+ year-olds.
- Information Books for 3-14+ year-olds.
Timetable:
- Applications to be a Teacher Judge for the 2027 awards are now open.
- The longlists are announced in September and Teacher Judges begin the process of reading and sharing the books with their pupils.
- The shortlists are announced in mid March.
- The winners are announced in June/July at the UKLA International Conference.
Read our shortlist announcement for the UKLA Book Awards 2026.
Cost: Free.
About UK Literacy Association: The UKLA is a registered charity dedicated to informing and supporting all those concerned with the development of language, literacy and communication.
Further resources:
- The Teachers’ Reading Challenge and the OU/UKLA Teachers’ Reading Groups both provide further opportunities for teachers to read and discuss children’s books with their peers.
- Book award shortlists are always a good source of book recommendation and there are awards for all genres. For a full listing of children’s book awards judged by adults, click here. Book awards judged by young people can be found here.
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