Spark! School Book Award

Spark! Book Awards - Panel Sign Up Join our panels We are looking for proactive teachers, with a love of reading and the drive to make a difference. If you'd like to be involved in helping us narrow down the submissions from publishers...

Exciting opportunity! Applications are now open for our shortlisting panels! If you’re a teacher or librarian in a Spark! school and you’d like to help shape the longlist and shortlist for Spark! 6, please get in touch via the linked form…

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Spark! Book Awards - Publishers 2024-25 was our biggest year yet:

Exciting news...we're open for submissions! Watch our info video below and see further details on our website:
www.sparkbookawards.co.uk/publishers
Deadline: 18 October 2025

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Coral Rumble’s novel 'Jakub's Otter' wins Spark! School Book Award 2024-25 — Troika Books We’re cock-a-hoop that award-winning poet Coral Rumble’s debut novel for children, Jakub’s Otter , is a winner in the Spark! School Book Awards 2024/25 .

We're still celebrating #JakubsOtter @coralrumble.bsky.social winning the brilliant @sparkbookaward.bsky.social award so head over to our site to read more about it.
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It is such a huge privilege to chair the shortlisting panel for the teen category of the @sparkbookaward.bsky.social. I loved all of the books in our shortlist but so pleased that the pupils voted for Nate Lessore & his important message of kindness & combating toxic masculinity. 🙌👏🏆

TKA Library played host to the @sparkbookaward.bsky.social Final Award Ceremony yesterday, which was broadcast live on YouTube to 170 schools. Some of our pupils attended as the live studio audience and supplied some excellent drum rolls and applause! @thekingstonacademy.org

The Spark team are still recovering from the excitement of yesterday...here are some behind-the-scenes shots of our ceremony. (Yes, we ate the cupcakes as soon as the ceremony was finished!)

So delighted that Dungeon Runners has won the 7+ category at the Spark! awards!! 😊🥹🥳

I’m speechless, so I’ll have to type this. Thank you teachers for shortlisting it, thank you children for voting for it, and thank you Team Spark for a wonderful ceremony. You’ll all need to go and have a lie down now! @sparkbookaward.bsky.social

Here they are in all their glory! Congratulations to all the 2025 Spark! Book Award Winners and a huge thank you to all the children and young people who read the books, entered the competitions, came to the author visits and voted for our winners! ✨📚🏆

And finally, in our guest Non-Fiction Category, congratulations to Catherine Ard and Wenjia Tang for 'Into the Volcano' published by @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social ✨📚🏆

Our 11+ Category winner was shortlisted last year in the same category, but came out with the crown this year for 'King of Nothing', published by @hotkeybooks.bsky.social Congratulations Nathanael Lessore! ✨📚🏆

The winner of the 9+ Category, also won our Poetry Category two years ago! Congratulations @coralrumble.bsky.social
for 'Jakub's Otter' published by @troikabooks.bsky.social
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Congratulations to the winners of the 7+ Category, @kieranlarwood.bsky.social & Joe Todd-Stanton for 'Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial' - also published by @nosycrow.bsky.social ✨📚🏆

The winner of the Picture Fiction for Early Readers Category was 'Who Ate Steve?' by Susannah Lloyd & Kate Hindley, published by @nosycrow.bsky.social Congratulations! ✨📚🏆

The votes have been counted and the winners have been announced, and for the first time we filmed our livestreaming ceremony with a live studio audience! Congratulations to everyone who was shortlisted, but here are our five fabulous winners...✨📚🏆

Don't forget to vote - the deadline is TODAY! We can't wait to find out who won! 👀🏆📚

And everyone loved the magical lion in Oscar's Lion (particularly Oscar in Year 3) @sparkbookaward.bsky.social

Dungeon Runners was a hugely popular read in Year 3 & 4 particularly... @kieranlarwood.bsky.social @sparkbookaward.bsky.social

The votes are still coming in for the @sparkbookaward.bsky.social but here's what some of our Year 3 & 4 pupils had to say about the shortlisted books in the 7+ category...

This week we're voting for the winner of the @sparkbookaward.bsky.social - here's what some of our Year 5 & 6 pupils had to say about the shortlisted books in the 9+ category... 'This story gave me emotions!'

'Wild East' by Ashley Hickson-Lovence took us on an emotional journey: 'It shows how this person has developed over time.' 'I liked this book because it was quite chill (after the prologue) and there were no big plot twists.' 'Really nice, emotional and poetry. I like it.'

'King of Nothing' by Nathanael Lessore made us laugh: 'It was my favourite book I have ever read.' 'It's funny & relatable.' 'It was very entertaining and had a cool story line.'

'It All Started With a Lie' by Denise Brown kept us guessing: 'Suspicious as well as interesting!' 'An amazing storyline with great plot twists.' 'The plot twist at the end really caught me off guard.'

'Here to Slay' by Radhika Sanghani slayed with the students: 'It is very nice as you can learn valuable life lessons from it.' 'I think this book has a good variety of characters and reminds me of other stories.' 'They are a team and love each other a lot and are very close.'

We're voting for the @sparkbookaward.bsky.social this week and it's going to be a close call! Here's what our pupils thought of the books...

We love these Spark! voting stations, created by Barnes Primary! ❤️ How are you collecting your votes?

This is your last chance to vote! Voting closes on Friday - we can't wait to find out which books & authors have won the Spark! School Book Award 2025... ✨📚🏆

‘Who Ate Steve?’ by @susannahlloyd.bsky.social & Kate Hindley was particularly popular in Year 2 as it made us laugh a lot! @sparkbookaward.bsky.social

Year 2 had a lot of fun imagining what each of them would do... ‘If I were Prime Minister’ by @trygv.bsky.social & Ella Okstad, from 'I could do what I want' to 'I would make my house rainbow!' @sparkbookaward.bsky.social

Year 2 enjoyed the themes of facing your fears and being kind to animals in 'Gina Kaminski Saves the Wolf' by @whycraigwhy.bsky.social & Francis Martin! @sparkbookaward.bsky.social