The Children’s Book Prize

The Buckinghamshire Children’s Book Award was launched in 2018 to promote the best books written for children and young adults that were published in the last 12 months. The aim of the Bucks Book Award is to inspire and empower young people to read more and to share their love of reading with others. We want to encourage reading for pleasure, independent choice, and wider reading habits.

WINNER 2025

The Boy Who Fell From the Sky

Dean, Benjamin ISBN: 9781398518742
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Twelve-year-old Zed has always been fascinated by the Demons that fall from the sky. His whole life his dad has worked as a Hunter, tasked with eliminating Demons once and for all, and Zed hopes to one day follow in his footsteps. But then one night Spark appears and disrupts everything Zed thought he knew. Because this Demon is nothing like the myths – he’s a frightened boy, no older than Zed, who wants to go back home. Can Zed stand up for what’s right, even if it means going against his own family?

- Browns Books Synopsis

Shortlist 2025

Dean, Benjamin ISBN: 9781398518742
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Evans, Maz ISBN: 9781913696870
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Sedgwick, Julian ISBN: 9781913101886
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Tsang, Katie ISBN: 9781398520127
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Studies have found that reading for pleasure is important for children’s intellectual development. Children who read books often at age 10 and more than once a week at age 16 gain higher results in maths, vocabulary and spelling tests at age 16 than those who read less regularly.