Oscar's Book Prize

Oscar’s Book Prize is an annual prize for the best under-fives book of the year. As of 2021, the Prize awards the winner(s) £10,000. The prize is awarded in memory of Oscar Ashton and in partnership with Amazon, the Evening Standard and the National Literacy Trust.

WINNER 2024

When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth

Taylor, Sean ISBN: 9780711277212
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Laugh and learn with this picture book set in the days WHEN DINOSAURS WALKED THE EARTH!

Dinosaurs chase each other in this hilarious explanation of the food chain. Like the Smallasaurus, who enjoys a plant-based diet, and Badasaurus who likes to eat small dinosaurs who enjoy a plant-based diet… It all begins when Smallasaurus has to think. And thinking can be a problem when you only have a brain the size of a walnut. Luckily, Badasaurus only has a brain the size of a peanut . . . and so begins a hilarious game of 'cat and mouse'. It’s not long before their chasing here, there and everywhere attracts the attention of an absolutely enormous and rather hungry meat-eating dinosaur called Worseasaurus. A choice of two dinosaurs is just what Worseasaurus loves for breakfast. Will she eat the small dinosaur, with a plant-based diet? Or will she eat the great big dinosaur, with a small-dinosaur-based diet?

This exciting picture book shows kids just how much of a dinosaur-eat-dinosaur world it once was! Bring the prehistoric period out of the classroom and to life on this vibrant journey with dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes. This is the perfect way to introduce the concept of the food chain to little ones in a fun and interactive way.

- Browns Books Synopsis

Shortlist 2024

Biddulph, Rob ISBN: 9780008413446
Paperback / softback

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Shireen, Nadia ISBN: 9780241623688
Paperback / softback

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Taylor, Sean ISBN: 9780711277212
Paperback / softback

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Dougherty, John ISBN: 9780711276055
Paperback / softback

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Barr-Green, Craig ISBN: 9781801045001
Hardback

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HRH Princess Beatrice became the Royal Patron of Oscar’s Book Prize in March 2017 after helping to judge the prize the previous year. The Princess has written publicly about her struggles with dyslexia as a child, and how the support of her parents and the magic of stories helped her fall in love with reading. On World Book Day in 2017 she shared her reading memories in an article for the Evening Standard.