School librarians, teachers and public libraries around the UK have voted Big Bad Wolf Investigates Fairy Tales by Catherine Cawthorne and Sara Ogilvie (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) the Peters Children’s Book of the Year for 2025.
The award celebrates the best children’s fiction and non-fiction published in the UK, with an emphasis on reading for pleasure, with overall winners Catherine Cawthorne and Sara Ogilvie each receiving a prize of £500 worth of books from Peters to donate to a school or public library of their choice. Voted Non-Fiction category winner and overall winner from an incredibly strong shortlist, the Peters’ team praised Big Bad Wolf Investigates for its standout humour, contrast of fairy tale and science and ‘amusing’ writing style. It combines STEM topics with classic stories children know and love – perfect for inquisitive children who like to ask big questions! Winners have also been announced in the Picture Book, Junior Fiction and Teen Fiction categories, with Phil Earle’s ‘tale of unrequited love’ Northern Soul and ‘charming’ A Wild Walk to School by Rebecca Cobb scooping the awards in the Teen Fiction and Picture Book categories respectively. In the Junior Fiction category, Tom Percival’s Carnegie-longlisted and ‘highly-readable’ story of resilience, The Wrong Shoes, and Alistair Chisholm’s ‘gripping’ I Am Wolf received an equal number of public votes.
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