Happy New Year everyone. We hope you and your pupils got lots of reading done over break! Did any of it include books on Dudley Children’s Book Award shortlists?

Just one day until we find out the winners of the Dudley Children's Book Awards! We're so excited for the award ceremony tomorrow.

GET THIS! Not only did my book snag the Dudley Teen Book Award, but young Tyler from @RuskinMill had made us all *handblown* glass vases! I’m … blown away! 😁😂 So many thanks to ⁦Dudley Children’s Book Award⁩ and all the schools involved. ⁦Hot Key Books ✨📚⁩ ⁦E W Literary Agency⁩

THIS HAPPENED!!!!! Thank you very, very, very much for reading & voting for #BellaBright I'm so thrilled!!!! - this means the world! #DCBA Dudley Children’s Book Award

@RuskinMill Hachette Children's Group @theresecoen The stage! Dudley Children’s Book Award it was such a wonderful event, so much hard work went into it all, and it was a total delight to meet so many of the readers and get to sign their books. Thank you to the whole team, and marvellous Mark from Waterstones Wolverhampton, bookseller extraordinaire!

Today I took my students to the Dudley Children’s Book Awards and they met their idol: Josh Silver. What an inspiration! (He noticed my job title on my lanyard 🙈) #dcba Dudley Children’s Book Award

That’s right! Congratulations to Lucy Strange Tia Fisher (only here for a bit) and to Carolyn Ward👻BELLA BRIGHT👻 on their wins at the Dudley Book Awards 2023! Your books have inspired so many of our students and their love of reading. Thank you so much.

And a huge well done to the rest of our nominees Jeffrey Boakye Eve Ainsworth @ldlapinski Dan Smith Jasbinder Bilan - I'm meant to be writing... #joshsilver #keithgray Adiba Jaigirdar (updates) we truly loved each and every one of your books. Thank you so much for your stories!

Yippee!!! SO proud The Storm and the Minotaur has won the short story category at the Dudley Children’s Book Award today!! 🏅 Huge thanks to all the young readers and librarians involved in this fabulous award, and warm congratulations to Tia and Carolyn the other winners!🏅🏅🏅 Barrington Stoke

Dudley Children’s Book Award Jeffrey Boakye Eve Ainsworth @ldlapinski Dan Smith Jasbinder Bilan - I'm meant to be writing... Adiba Jaigirdar (updates) We had such a great time - and I think the students did too! Here’s Carolyn Ward👻BELLA BRIGHT👻 and I looking very proud of our medals :-)

Yesterday some of our pupils attended the Dudley Children’s Book Award at Dormston School. They experienced a real awards ceremony, saw authors talk passionately about their books & met some of the authors (incl Josh Silver - pictured) after the ceremony. A really inspirational day for our pupils.

What a wonderful afternoon yesterday Dudley Children’s Book Award Award Ceremony. Great to listen to the authors and their writing journey. Congratulations to Lucy Strange Tia Fisher (only here for a bit) Carolyn Ward👻BELLA BRIGHT👻 All of the authors in attendance were so lovely with the students, chatting to them and signing books!

I’m honoured and thrilled to hear that WARNING: Magic Can Be Dangerous! has been shortlisted for a Dudley Children’s Book Award — voted for by staff and students in the participating Dudley Borough Primary and Secondary Schools. I’m looking forward to attending the award ceremony

We are thrilled to announce our shortlist for this years award! Well done to Phil Earle Lucy Strange Steve Cole Tom Palmer Tom Percival Ruta Sepetys Updates B. Ware Hafsah Faizal Cynthia Murphy: YA author (NOT HERE on Inst@ & TT) Melissa Welliver - TO THE DEATH March 2026! Barrington Stoke Simon & Schuster UK

Hi Steve Cole - your book Drowning in My Bedroom has been nominated for our 2025 Book Awards (voted for entirely by primary and secondary students). We would love to connect with you about our upcoming awards ceremony. Could you drop us a message so we can contact you?

We're back with our robert hymers 2024 shortlists! Twelve fantastic books, three categories, hundreds of excited pupils already reading. We can't wait to see which books win this year. Summerhill School Windsor High School and Sixth Form Kingswinford Academy St James Academy - Dudley Steve Cole

Soooo excited for this tomorrow - see you there Summerhill School Dudley Children’s Book Award !

What a wonderful day this was!Thanks to everyone involved with Dudley Children’s Book Award, the authors (great to meet Melissa Welliver - TO THE DEATH March 2026! & B. Ware), the brilliant staff at Summerhill School, The Wordsley School's ace librarian for all the help, and most of all, all the lovely enthusiastic young readers!📚

And a huge congratulations to all of our shortlisted authors. Without you, we couldn’t have had an award. We have medals for you all (also going out in the post)