Alexandra Palace Children's Book Award - 9-12 yr olds invited to vote now

The final shortlist for the Biblio-buzz Alexandra Palace Children’s Book Awards (formerly Haringey Children’s Book award) has been published.

Haringey schoolchildren aged 9 to 12 are invited to vote for their favourite book from the six titles.

The shortlisted novels are:

• Will You Catch Me? by Jane Elson
• Tin by Padraig Kenny
• Child I by Steve Tasane
• Kat Wolfe Investigates by Lauren St John
• The Lost Magician by Piers Torday
• Kick by Mitch Johnson

The deadline for voting is Sunday 31 March.

Voting cards are available in their local libraries.

The winner will be presented with their award at an award ceremony to be held at the recently opened Alexandra Palace Theatre on Tuesday 2 April.

Award launch event

The Alexandra Palace Children’s Book Award launch event took place on Saturday 2 February 2019, 11am at Wood Green library.

On the day there were readings from the shortlisted books and workshops with illustrator Sian Pattenden.

Find out more about the authors here