Little Rebels Award

On behalf of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers, we are thrilled to bring you the: ⚡️2025 Shortlist for the Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction⚡️ Congratulations to all of the shortlistees! #LittleRebelsAward

What a brilliant shortlist for the 2025 @littlerebsprize - I was proud to be a judge from 2018-21 - it's such a great prize, congrats to all the shortlisted including @SarahHaggerHolt @BooksandChokers! @Booktrust #LittleRebelsAward

Loved being involved with @littlerebsprize again this year. See you at the award ceremony!!

The shortlist for the @littlerebsprize has been revealed - it celebrates children’s books for readers age 0-12 which promote social equality and social justice bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)

We are proud to announce that Mayowa and the Sea of Words ⚡📖 by Chibundu Onuzo has been shortlisted for the Little Rebels Award 2025 Congratulations to the author and thank you to team @littlerebsprize ❤️

This is such a well-deserved shortlisting! S F Layzell’s wonderful book for children, Cottonopolis, has been shortlisted for the Little Rebels Award. The story and characters are compelling and the insight into working class Victorian Manchester is eye-opening!

1/2 We’re delighted to share with you the 2025 Little Rebels Award Shortlist. A superb lineup of children’s books (KS1/2) which comment on urgent social justice issue from the past-& in the present. We 💜running this award with @HousmansBooks on behalf of @ARBooksellers ⏭️

*Excited shrieking* Cottonopolis has made the Little Rebels shortlist! This is not a drill 😍 Check out SF Layzell's incredible queer, midgrade fantasy novel here: amzn.eu/d/41bWr5m

I am so delighted to be shortlisted for the Little Rebels Award again this year. If the world needs anything right now, it needs little (and big) rebels, learning from our history to imagine different, better, flourishing futures.

Brilliant shortlist! Congrats all

Another thundering line-up of radical children’s books on the 2025 Little Rebels Award shortlist! ✨

We're super excited to announce that Keedie has been shortlisted for the Little Rebels Awards! A huge congratulations to Elle McNicoll and thank you to the Little Rebels Awards.

Love the @littlerebsprize awards, doing important work 💪😊⭐️

'Debut authors and interrupters' The shortlist for the 2025 #LittleRebelsAward has been announced, one of our favourite awards @LetterboxLib Winner will be announced in October, meanwhile find out more: booksforkeeps.co.uk/debut-authors-…

🥳Congratulations🥳to Kirsten Cappy, Yaya Gentille & Rahana Dariah for Kende! Kende! Kende!, shortlisted for the #LittleRebelsAward 2025. Childs Play publishing.

🥳Congratulations🥳to Cathy Jenkins for Zac and Jac, shortlisted for the #LittleRebelsAward 2025. With illustrations by @MomoSteele07 @graffeg_books

🥳Congratulations🥳to Chibundu Onuzo for Mayowa and the Sea of Words, shortlisted for the #LittleRebelsAward 2025. With illustrations by @PaulaZorite @BloomsburyBooks @KidsBloomsbury

🥳Congratulations🥳to Elle McNicoll for Keedie, shortlisted for the #LittleRebelsAward 2025. @BooksandChokers @_KnightsOf