With submissions closing soon, here are this year’s top fifty most used title words for Children’s manuscripts received in 2022. These include novels for children and teens along with chapter and picture books and we’ve excluded “stop” words such as ‘the’ ‘of’ ‘and’ etc.

And if you’d like to enter 2022’s £3,000 Bath Children’s Novel Award, there’s still time but hurry – the closing date is November 30th at 23:59 GMT. Full prize details here