It’s the final countdown! One more day to go until we find out who our Judges chose as the winner of OBP 2022! The calibre of this year’s shortlist has made that an almost impossible task.- we always think our judges have the best and most difficult job in the world!
Speaking of that, while the comments within the OBP judging meetings remain entirely confidential - there is a loophole. Well, there is when one of the judges is an award-winning illustrator who likes to document a meeting with drawings…
As such, if you ever wondered what an OBP judging meeting is like, here’s a sneak peek, courtesy of the incorrigibly enthusiastic pencil of Chris Riddell…
Opinions strictly illustrator’s own, of course…
(and in case you haven’t already, please scroll down for the next post to look at what the judges all said on each book!)
We cannot disclose what said wobbler was about: and of course there are no tantrums at all within OBP judging meetings (and definitely none to do with a lack of dragons)
Smriti and Steve might not want to write Ben Bailey Smith into their next book, but then again…
Just a fire fox and a chicken, squirrel and bear to go and we’d have the full shortlist…
A duck who doesn’t like water…
