And the winner is...

The Bookbug Picture Book Prize 2020 winner was announced yesterday and I'm happy to report that The Station Mouse won. Woohoo!

The beautiful trophy was made by Emily Hogarth

Every year Scottish Book Trust give all of the primary one children in Scotland a Bookbug bag containing three shortlisted books.  This year Scottish Book Trust gave out an incredible 189,000 books in these bags alone.  That's 63,000 bags!  The most wonderful part of all this is that young readers get three great books of their very own to keep.

The winner is picked by the readers too, which for me is the loveliest part.  It's really nice to know that the people you write books for are actually enjoying them.  Thank you to all the schools who took part, all the libraries that helped out and to all the pupils for voting.

Here is the announcement video.

Huge thanks to Liam, Heather and Jonathan who made this video, and to Hannah who filmed the shortlist videos, you who were all so helpful and supportive.

Maurice and I are off to celebrate with our favourite things, cheese and cake.  Maybe there's a way we can combine the two...

The Bookbug Picture Book Prize 2020

I'm very excited that The Station Mouse has been shortlisted for The Bookbug Picture Book Prize 2020 run by Scottish Book Trust.

Three books are shortlisted and put into Bookbug bags which are given to every Primary 1 child in Scotland.  The children then vote on their favourite book.  This is the reason that the prize is so amazing, every child gets three books to read and to keep.  Scottish Book Trust are amazing at getting books into the hands of young readers and I'm really proud that The Station Mouse gets to be a part of that this year.  Huge thanks to everyone at Scottish Book Trust.

You can read about the other amazing books shortlisted this year here  and there's a video of each author reading their story.  

You can watch my reading of The Station Mouse below or click here.