The 2018 North Somerset Teachers' Book Award
Here is the 2018 long list for each category of our awards, each book carefully chosen.
The short list was announced on Saturday 8th September and the 2018 awards will be held on Saturday 10th November. All short listed authors, illustrators and publishers will be invited to attend the ceremony. If anyone else would like to come, please let us know and we will try to fit you in!
The awards are organised, run and funded by members of the group. We spend a lot of time in bookshops, searching for books that we think will work really well in school so that we can share them. We all work full time and organise and manage the awards and this website in what little spare time we have!
Here are this year's shortlisted books:
The long listed books were:
Picture Books:
Mrs Noah's Pockets - Jackie Morris, illustrated by James Mayhew
The Great Gran Plan- Elli Woollard, illustrated by Steven Lenton
The Last Chip- Duncan Beedie
Little Red Reading Hood- Lucy Rowland, illustrated by Ben Mantle
Almost Anything- Sophy Henn
Nimesh the Adventurer- Ranjit Singh, illustrated by Mehrdokht Amini
Look Out! It's a Dragon- Jonny Lambert
Lulu Gets a Cat- Anna McQuinn, illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw
I'm Going to Eat this Ant- Chris Naylor-Ballesteros
Fairy Tale Pets-Tracy Corderoy, illustrated by Jorge Martin
Izzy Gizmo- Pip Jones, illustrated by Sara Ogilvie
This Zoo is Not For You- Ross Collins
Goat's Coat- Tom Percival, illustrated by Christine Pym
Something Fishy- Polly Dunbar
After the Fall- Dan Santat
Spyder- Matt Carr
Unplugged- Steve Antony
The Word Collector- Peter H Reynolds
What's Your Favourite Colour? Eric Carle and friends
Cyril and Pat - Emily Gravett
Poetry Books
Apes to Zebras ~ Liz Brownlee, Sue Hardy-Dawson & Roger Stevens
Alphamals- Ruth Symons, illustrated by Graham Carter
Firecrackers- Zaro Weil, illustrated by Jo Riddell
Tickling with Words-John Townsend, illustrated by Stef Murphy
The Same Inside- Liz Brownlee, Roger Stevens & Matt Goodfellow
Chicken on the Roof- Matt Goodfellow, illustrated by Hannah Asen
The World's Greatest Space Cadet- James Carter, illustrated by Ed Boxall
Blast off- Carole Bromley, illustrated by Catherine Benson
Little Lemur Laughing- Joshua Seigal
Message from the Moon- Hilda Offen
Peace Lily- Hilary Robinson, illustrated by Martin Impey
Rising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry - Ruth Awolola, Victoria Adukweibulley, Abigail Cook, Jay Hulme and Amina Jama
Information
The Bee Book- Charlotte Milner
Star Finder for Beginners – foreword by Maggie Alderin-Pocock
Young, Gifted and Black- Jamia Wilson, illustrated by Andrea Pippins
How Does a Lighthouse Work?- Roman Belyaev
The Histronauts: An Egyptian Adventure -Frances Durkin, illustrated by Grace Cooke
Wild about Science - John Farndon, Steve Parker and Sally Morgan
Why Don't Fish Drown?- Anna Clayboure, illustrated by Claire Goble
Professor Astro Cat's Human Body Odyssey- Dr Dominic Walliman, illustrated by Ben Newman
Suffragette- David Roberts
Politics for Beginners- Louie Stowell, Alex Frith and Rosie Hore, illustrated by Kellan Stover
Books Books Books- Mick Manning, illustrated by Brita Granstrom
Welcome to Our World: A Celebration of Children Everywhere! -Moira Butterfield, illustrated by Harriet Lynas
Read Aloud
Nevermoor- Jessica Townsend
Mr Penguin and the Lost Treasure – Alex T Smith
Fabio The World's Greatest Flamingo Detective: The Case of the Missing Hippo- Laura James, illustrated by Emily Fox
The Chocolate Factory Ghost- David O'Connell, illustrated by Claire Powell
Rose Muddle Mysteries: The Amber Pendant- Imogen White, illustrations by Davide Ortu
You Can't Make Me Go to Witch School- Em Lynas, illustrated by Jamie Littler
Yours Sincerely, Giraffe-Megumi Iwasa, illustrated by Jun Takabatake
Codebusters- Dan Metcalf, illustrated by Gary Cherrington
Witch for a Week- Kate Umansky, illustrated by Ashley King
Kat Wolf Investigates- Lauren St John
The Book Case- Dave Shelton
The Return of the Railway Children- Lou Kuenzler
Quality Fiction
Just Jack- Kate Scott
The Hippo at the End of the Hall- Helen Cooper
To the Edge of the World- Julia Green
Sky Chasers- Emma Carroll (from an idea by Neal Jackson)
Sky Song- Abi Elphinstone
Norse Myths- Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Jeffrey Allan Love
The House with Chicken Legs- Sophie Anderson, illustrated by Melissa Castrillon and Elisa Paganelli
Revolt against the Romans - Tony Bradman
Mark of the Cyclops- Saviour Pirotta, illustrated by Freya Hartas
Song of the Dolphin Boy- Elizabeth Laird, illustrated by Peter Bailey
A Story Like the Wind- Gill Lewis, illustrated by Jo Weaver
The Jewelled Jaguar- Sharon Tregenza
Moving On
The Polar Bear Explorers' Club- Alex Bell, illustrated by Tomislav Tomic
Twister- Juliette Forrest, illustrated by Alexis Snell
The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole- Michelle Cuevas
Ella on the Outside- Cath Howe, illustrated by Nicila Theobald
Tin- Padraig Kenny
Running on Empty- S E Durrant, illustrated by Rob Biddulph
The Children of Castle Rock- Natasha Farrant
Kick- Mitch Johnson
The Eye of the North- Sinead O'Hart
Charlie and Me – Mark Lowery
How to Bee- Bren MacDibble
Herstory: 50 Women and Girls who Shook the World- Katherine Halligan, illustrated by Sarah Walsh