The shortlist is split into three age groups with three books per group, and was chosen by a panel of judges including a teacher, a librarian, a bookseller, children’s books experts, a Bookbug coordinator and two groups of pupils.
The nine books include four former shortlisted authors, two previous winners, one debut author and one Scottish independent publisher.
The three books in the Bookbug Readers (three-seven years) category are The Paper Dolls by Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb (Macmillan), What’s the Time Mr Wolf? by Debi Gliori (Bloomsbury), and Jumblebum by Chae Strathie and Ben Cort (Scholastic).
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