The Bath Children’s Novel Award is an annual international prize for emerging novelists writing for children or young adults. The shortlist is chosen by a panel of Junior Judges aged 6-17 years who this year have selected five manuscripts from a longlist of 26.
As all our judges read “blind” we’ll be keeping the shortlistees’ identities under wraps until the winner is announced, but in the meantime many congratulations to the writers of these five standout novels:
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2017 Shortlist
JACK DARK AND THE FIGMENT HUNTERS (Middle grade / fantasy)
Boy discovers he can enter other people’s nightmares and joins secret society to battle deadly creatures.
ME TWO (Middle grade / fantasy)
Girl born into two bodies on opposite sides of the world must choose which life to live and which to lose.
MILTON THE MIGHTY (Chapter book / animal humour)
Curious spider discovers he’s been branded deadly by the tabloid press and must work with a human girl to save his species.
THE REINVENTION OF ROLO RAWLINGS (Young adult / comedy drama)
Lovesick teenage herpetologist seeks answers to the mystery behind his dad’s coma.
THE VESSEL (Young adult / fantasy)
Young inventor harbouring a dark secret must protect the boy she rescued from inside a beached whale.
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2017 LONGLIST
