The Award In Numbers...
Up to 150,000 votes cast a year
Over 1,100 books read each year
Over 100 publishing imprints submit books to the award
Over 12,000 books donated every year
Nearly 250 schools, reaching 130,000 children a year
How the full testing voting process works:
The full testing involves the reading, reviewing and rating of over 1,100 books published each calendar year in the UK. Twelve of the Federation Children’s Book Groups participate, managed nationally by the volunteer Children’s Book Award Co-ordinator.
Due to the generosity of the publishers, one copy of every submitted book is sent to each of the twelve groups. The volunteer group coordinators take the books in to member schools, member families and to libraries within their communities for the children and young people to read, review and rate.
At the end of the calendar year the Top 50 are finalised and the shortlist Top Ten is chosen.
The Top Ten voting process:
The Top Ten comprises 3 Categories:
- Younger Children books (4 titles)
- Younger Reader books (3 titles)
- Older Reader books (3 titles)
Any child or young person within the UK can vote in the Top Ten to choose the Category Winners and the Overall Winner, whether they are members of the Federation of Children’s Book Groups or non-members. Voting for the 2018 award is now open. Visit our voting page NOW to take part.
Each book is compared against the others within their category and ranked in preference order.
The results are input into a database from which the Category Winners and Overall Winner are selected by an algorithm that takes into account the ranking preferences of every book.