About The Award
The Children’s Awards were created in the first Irish Book Awards expansion of 2006. The children’s awards are split into three categories: junior, senior, and Teen & Young Adult. The junior category is aimed at readers under 8 years of age.
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The 2021 Shortlist
Specsavers Children's Book of the Year - Junior 2020
The Great Irish Farm Book
By Darragh McCullough, Illustrated by Sally Caulwell
Did you know that there are almost 2,000,000 pigs in Ireland? Would you believe only 10 per cent of the milk produced in Ireland is consumed here? And that hens are pregnant for 21 days, but a horse can be pregnant for up to 345 days? The Great Irish Farm Book will take you on a fascinating journey through an Irish farm.
Previous Winners
2020 – The Great Irish Farm Book by Darragh McCullough, Illustrated by Sally Caulwell
2019 – 123 Ireland!
by Aoife Dooley
2018 – The President’s Cat
by Peter Donnelly
2017 – A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea by Sarah Webb illustrated by Steve McCarthy
2016 – Pigín of Howth by Kathleen Watkins & illustrated by Margaret Anne Suggs
2015 – Imaginary Fred by Eoin Colfer & Oliver Jeffers
2014 – Shh! We Have a Plan by Chris Haughton
2013 – When You Were Born by Benji Bennett
2012 – This Moose Belongs to Me by Oliver Jeffers
2011 – The Lonely Beast by Chris Judge
2010 – On the Road with Mavis and Marge by Niamh Sharkey
2009 – Before You Sleep by Benji Bennett
2008 – The Story of Ireland by Brendan O’Brien
2007 – The Incredible Book-eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers