Oscar's Book Prize
Oscar’s Book Prize is an annual prize for the best picture book of the year for young children. As of 2021, the Prize awards the winner(s) £10,000. The prize is awarded in memory of Oscar Ashton and runs in partnership with Amazon, supported by the Evening Standard.
The 2024 Prize is now open for entries - please select the Enter heading above to find out how to enter, and which books are eligible. We wish everyone who enters the very best of luck! We will be announcing more news - including our judging panel - in January, with the shortlist in April and the winner on 7th May 2024.
The prize’s 2023 winner was the moving and tender story The Boy with Flowers in His Hair… by Jarvis - huge congratulations to him, and all of our incredible tenth year shortlistees! You can find out more about the finale to the 2023 award here, and you can watch the judges read the winning story, and even click here to read our Q&A with Jarvis himself.
We would also like to thank our amazing longlist and shortlist judging panels who undertook a task which is both incredibly fun and utterly unenviable - reading all of these gorgeous picture books and trying to choose between them!
Please check our News page or our social media channels (@oscarsbookprize on Twitter and Instagram, and Oscar’s Book Prize on Facebook) where we post all new information (and you can find out about our previous years, too). Our Enter page currently contains all Terms and Conditions of Entry, as well as the link to our online entry form. Good luck!
Thanks so much for sharing our journey - not to mention so many outstanding picture books - with us. We close our first decade feeling hugely excited about what authors, illustrators, stories and reading experiences the next ten years might bring!
L:R James Ashton, Award co-founder; Jarvis; HRH Princess Beatrice pictured at the Award ceremony on 9th May 2023. Image (C) PA
A short video of our story so far:
