United Kingdom Literacy Association

UKLA Book Awards winners

2019

• 12 to 16+ category: Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Chris Priestley
• 7 to 11 category: The Explorer by Katherine Rundell, illustrated by Hannah Horn
• 3 to 6 category: I am Bat, written and illustrated by Morag Hood

  2018

• 12 to 16+ category: We Come Apart by Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan
• 7 to 11 category, joint winner: Welcome to Nowhere written by Elizabeth Laird and illustrated by Lucy Eldridge
• 7 to 11 category, joint winner: Lesser Spotted Animals written and illustrated by Martin Brown
• 3 to 6 category: Colin and Lee Carrot and Pea written and illustrated by Morag Hood

  2017

• 12 to 16+ category: The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen by Susin Nielsen
• 7 to 11 category: The Journey written and illustrated by Francesca Sanna
• 3 to 6 category: There's a Bear on MY Chair by Ross Collins

  2016

• 12 to 16+ category: The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
• 7 to 11 category: The Imaginary by A. F. Harrold and Emily Gravett
• 3 to 6 category: Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion by Alex T. Smith

  2015

• 12 to 16+ category: Every Day by David Levithan
• 7 to 11 category: Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre
• 3 to 6 category: The Day the Crayons Quit written by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers

  2014

• 12 to 16 category: Now is the Time for Running by Michael Williams
• 7 to 11 category: The Story of the Blue Planet by Andri Snær Magnason, Julian Meldon D'Arcy, Áslaug Jónsdóttir
• 3 to 6 category: This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen

  2013

• 12 to 16 category: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• 7 to 11 category: The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan
• 3 to 6 category: Good Little Wolf by Nadia Shireen Rayner

  2012

• 12 to 16 category: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, illustrated by Jim Kay
• 7 to 11 category: Sky Hawk by Gill Lewis
• 3 to 6 category: Iris & Isaac by Catherine Rayner

  2011

• 12 to 16 category: Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace
• 3 to 11 category: Birdsong by Ellie Sandall

  2010

• 12 to 16 category: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell
• 3 to 11 category: Then by Morris Gleitzman

  2009

• 12 to 16 category: Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
• 3 to 11 category: Archie's War by Marcia Williams

  2008

• Picture book category: Penguin by Polly Dunbar
• Novel category: Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve