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An image of the 6 books shortlisted for the 2025 award: Kende! Kende! Kende! The Fights That Make Us Cottonopolis Keedie Mayowa and the Sea of Words Zac and Jac Image has the header, “Radical Fiction for Children!”

We’re so proud of our 2025 #LittleRebelsAward Shortlist, exploring such a wide range of social justice topics through accessible child-friendly texts, including:

⭐️war & displacement
⭐️lgbtq+ activism
⭐️intergenerational racism
⭐️historical labour conditions
⭐️structural bullying
⭐️hate speech

#KidLitUK

Kids’ Summer holiday reading sorted. ✅

Thank you! 🌴😎📚

Throwback to 16th October. My book was shortlisted for the brilliant Little Rebels Award! 😁 A huge honour!💛
#childrensbooks #picturebooks #littlerebelsaward

Book cover of Kende! Kende! Kende! shortlisted for Little Rebels Award 2025, sticker shown in picture. Joyful illustration shows Papa pushing daughter in wheelbarrow, laughing and happy at home before they have to leave and find a new home in another country. Green trees, chickens, blue sky background.

"Timely book to share with children to celebrate all that is diverse and therefore unique about our communities" @justimaginecentre.bsky.social

⭐Great review! KENDE! KENDE! KENDE! Kirsten Cappy, Yaya Gentille, Rahana Dariah
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
⭐Shortlisted @littlerebsprize.bsky.social

The 2025 #TheDBAwards longlists are out and…look at all those #LittleRebelsAward longlistee crossovers!
🤩Alyssa!
🤩Bobby Bains!
🤩Mayowa and 🤩The Fights (now shortlistees)!

We love to see this 😍😍😍
#KidLitUK

Profile photos of the four Little Rebels Award Judges. Top left: Alom Shaha. Top right: Phoebe Demeger Bottom left: Soofiya Bottom right: Chris Haughton

The judges have all received their copies of the shortlisted titles☺️Happy reading! We can’t wait to get your feedback in the Autumn🍁🍂

Thanks again, Judges:
@chrishaughton.bsky.social
@alomshaha.bsky.social
Phoebe Demeger at @theclpe.bsky.social
@soofiya.bsky.social

#LittleRebelsAward
#KidLitUK

A quote from award judge Chris Haughton superimposed on pastel bubble shapes. Full text reads: “A good book has the power to counter mainstream assumptions. To me that is what publishing should really be all about, to challenge the narrative and get us thinking and questioning. The Little Rebels Award highlights the books that do this. Books that challenge the status quo and amplify marginalised voices.”

“Books that challenge the status quo and amplify marginalised voices”

Love this from our Judge Chris Haughton ⏬
@chrishaughton.bsky.social

#KidLitUK #radicalpublishing #LittleRebelsAward

And introducing you all to our sibling, ‘grown-up’, award:

🍞🌹🪧
THE BREAD & ROSES AWARD

Award for radical non-fiction publishing for adults.

Who have just published their 2025 Shortlist👇🏼

Thank you!

Promotional graphic for the Little Rebels Award 2025 shortlist. Text reads: 'Celebrating Radical Fiction for Children!' and '#LittleRebelsAward'. Six shortlisted children's book covers are displayed: 1) 'Kende! Kende! Kende!' by Kirsten Cappy & Yaya Gentille, illustrated by Rahana Dariah — shows a joyful child in a wheelbarrow pushed by an adult, with chickens nearby. 2) 'The Fights That Make Us' by Sarah Hagger-Holt — features children holding protest signs with a rainbow backdrop. 3) 'Cottonopolis' by SF Said and Layzell — depicts two children from different backgrounds smiling against a dark, starry backdrop. 4) 'Keedie' by Elle McNicoll — shows a girl with headphones in a vibrant, stylized design. 5) 'Mayowa and the Sea of Words' by Chibundu Onuzo — a girl reading while colorful words swirl around her. 6) 'Zac and Jac' by Cathy Jenkins — two boys smiling and playing together in sports gear. Logos for the Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust and the Little Rebels Award, as well as the hashtag #LittleRebelsAward are also included.

Shortlisted titles for the 2025 @littlerebsprize.bsky.social
have been revealed!

Read more on our website here: www.ibby.org.uk/little-rebel...

#LGBT #childrensbooks #radicalbooks #refugee #Neurodiversity #publishing #childrenspublishing #LittleRebelsAward

FYI ⬆️ @graffegbooks.bsky.social @sflayzell.bsky.social @northodoxpress.bsky.social @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social @knightsofbooks.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social @rahanabanana.bsky.social @childs-play.co.uk

LITTLE REBELS AWARD SHORTLIST PACK Primary Key Stage 1 & 2 (Ages 5-11) *6 Books* | Letterbox Library Selected by Letterbox Library The Little Rebels Award recognises children's fiction (for readers aged 0-12) which promotes social justice or social equality, challenges stereotypes or is informed by a...

🤩Social Justice Books for School🤩

Every year, award organisers @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social puts together a Little Rebels Award Book Pack with:
🖤The shortlisted books/discounted
🤍Reading guides
❤️Poster
💚Stickers
🖤Bookmarks

www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...

#KidLitUK

Today is a dream come true 🥹🥹🥹

#KidLitUK One of my very favourite prizes! Only 1 here that I've not read <scurries to order>

Little Rebels Award 2025 shortlist unveiled

Six authors, including Elle McNicoll and Cathy Jenkins, have been shortlisted for The Little Rebels Award for radical children’s fiction 👇 #BookSky

A graphic showing the covers of the six books on the shortlist for the Little Rebels Award 2025

The shortlist for the 2025 #LittleRebelsAward has been announced, one of our favourite awards. Congratulations to all the interrupters on this year's list! Winner announced in October @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social #BookSky #KidLitUK

booksforkeeps.co.uk/debut-author...

I am SO glad that this made it to the shortlist!

It's an absolutely stonkingly good book. I read it in a single sitting (which is unheard of for me, but I couldn't put it down!)

If you want to read an excerpt, you can check it out on my blog here: inquisitivenewt.com/2025/06/16/c...

Darren’s debut picture book, I’m Going to Make a Friend came out in May. He & @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social co-author the #BeyondTheSecretGarden columns for @booksforkeeps.bsky.social
Some were published by @engmediacentre.bsky.social this year.

How lucky we are! Thank you @darrenchetty.bsky.social

We were very honoured this year to be joined again by Dr Darren Chetty at the shortlisting stage.

Darren is a former #LittleRebelsAward Judge. He is a lecturer, author & specialist in philosophical inquiry with children & anti-racism.
@darrenchetty.bsky.social

We can’t wait to see what they make of the 2025 #LittleRebelsAward Shortlist!

We are very proud to have a very fine panel of #LittleRebelsAward judges:

Chris Haughton, Author & Illustrator
@chrishaughton.bsky.social
Alom Shaha, Teacher&Author @alomshaha.bsky.social
Phoebe Demeger, Librarian at @theclpe.bsky.social
Soofiya, Illustrator&Designer& Lecturer @soofiya.bsky.social

🥳Congratulations🥳to Cathy Jenkins for Zac and Jac, shortlisted for the #LittleRebelsAward 2025.

With illustrations by Momo Steele
@graffegbooks.bsky.social

🥳Congratulations🥳to Chibundu Onuzo for Mayowa and the Sea of Words, shortlisted for the #LittleRebelsAward 2025.
With illustrations by Paula Zorite.
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

🥳Congratulations🥳to Elle McNicoll for Keedie, shortlisted for the #LittleRebelsAward 2025.

@ellemcnicoll.bsky.social
@knightsofbooks.bsky.social

🥳Congratulations🥳to SF Layzell for Cottonopolis, shortlisted for the #LittleRebelsAward 2025.

@sflayzell.bsky.social
@northodoxpress.bsky.social

🥳Congratulations🥳to Sarah Hagger-Holt for The Fights That Make Us, shortlisted for the #LittleRebelsAward 2025.
@sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social
Usborne Books

🥳Congratulations🥳to Kirsten Cappy, Yaya Gentille & @rahanabanana.bsky.social for Kende! Kende! Kende!, shortlisted for the #LittleRebelsAward 2025.
@childs-play.co.uk

To find out more about the award, visit littlerebels.org

We’re also on Instagram at www.instagram.com/littlerebels...

We look forward to celebrating the fabulous world of rabble-rousing, social-justice-focused, children’s books with you 🤓