The Concorde Book Award is an annual prize for
children's literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.
Children's ...
awarded by
South Gloucestershire
South Gloucestershire is a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, South West England. Towns in the area include Yate, Chipping Sodbury, Thornbury, Filton, Patchway and Bradley Stoke, the latter three forming part ...
secondary school students.
It may be compared with the United Kingdom's
Children's Book Award, a national children's literature prize awarded through voting by children.
A group of South Gloucestershire school and public librarians founded the Concorde Book Award in the 2007-2008 school year, with the first award ceremony being held in 2008.
Each year, secondary school students in South Gloucestershire are invited to nominate a recently published book for the award longlist.
A small panel of librarians selects six books from the longlist to form the Concorde Book Award shortlist, which is announced in early fall.
Once the shortlist is announced, students may join reading groups at their school or public library to read and discuss the novels on the shortlist, before casting their vote for a winner.
Voting is held on
World Book Day
World Book Day, also known as World Book and Copyright Day or International Day of the Book, is an annual event organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to promote reading, publishing, and copyrig ...
,
which is celebrated in March
in the United Kingdom, though other countries typically observe it in April.
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List of winning and shortlisted books
See also
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Blue Peter Book Awards
The Blue Peter Book Awards were a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme ''Blue Peter''. They were inaugurated in 2000 for books published in 1999. The Awards have been managed by reading charity, ...
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Carnegie Medal
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Children's Laureate
Children's Laureate, now known as the 'Waterstones Children's Laureate' is a prestigious position awarded in the United Kingdom once every two years to a "writer or illustrator of children's books to celebrate outstanding achievement in their fie ...
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Kate Greenaway Medal
The Kate Greenaway Medal is a British literary award that annually recognises "distinguished illustration in a book for children". It is conferred upon the illustrator by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) ...
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Nestle Smarties Book Prize
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Red House Children's Book Award
The Federation of Children's Book Groups Children's Book Award is a set of annual literary prizes for children's books published in the U.K. during the preceding calendar year. It recognises one "Overall" winner and one book in each of three cat ...
References
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British children's literary awards
South Gloucestershire District
Awards established in 2008
2008 establishments in the United Kingdom