The longlist for the 2017 Amazing Book Awards has been announced, and we’re absolutely thrilled to see two Nosy Crow titles included on the list!
The Sussex Coast Schools Amazing Book Awards is a book award set up at the start of 2011 by a small group of school librarians from West Sussex – with the books on the longlist chosen entirely by students.
And this year both The Many Worlds of Albie Bright, by Christopher Edge, and Petunia Perry and the Curse of the Ugly Pigeon, written by Pamela Butchart and illustrated by Gemma Correll, have been longlisted!
Frank Cottrell Boyce called The Many Worlds of Albie Bright “A book with a big brain, big laughs and a big, big heart.” The Times, naming the book a Children’s Book of the Week, wrote: “Christopher Edge has written a clever story infused with science that wears its intelligence humorously, introduces complex ideas with the lightest of touches … Give the man his own element on the periodic table of children’s authors.”
Here’s a look inside the book:
Previously shortlisted for the Laugh Out Loud Book Awards (Lollies), Petunia Perry and the Curse of the Ugly Pigeon is an absolutely hilarious novel about how to fit in when you don’t want to conform. Petunia Perry has decided to write her memoirs. She wants the world to know what it’s like to start secondary school with a best friend who stages one-person flash mobs in the canteen, a mother who over-shares at parents’ evenings and an unwelcome suitor who draws pictures of her as a unicorn. But it’s when she decides to start a band with a spoon-player and a lead-singer who’s a cat that things take a turn for the truly crazy…
Here’s a look inside the book:
You can find out more about the Amazing Book Awards here – the winner will be announced in June. Congratulations, Pamela, Gemma, and Chris – and good luck!
