The Alligator's Mouth Award for illustrated early fiction
in partnership with Bright Illustration Agency and Gardners Books
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Press Release 25/6/20
Adam Stower Wins The Alligator’s Mouth Award 2020
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● King Coo: The Curse of the Mummy’s Gold by Adam Stower is crowned the best book for 6-8-year-olds
The Alligator’s Mouth Children’s Bookshop, in partnership with illustration and literary agency The Bright Agency, is launching The Alligator’s Mouth Award: a new award for illustrated early fiction. The award is intended to celebrate the best books published in the UK from the last year for readers aged 6-8, and champion authors and illustrators of highly illustrated early children’s fiction.
The award was founded in 2018 by The Alligator’s Mouth in partnership with The Bright Agency with the aim of championing and celebrating highly-illustrated fiction for children aged 6-8-years-old. This year, book wholesalers Gardners joined the prize as an official partner.
Keep up to date with the awards at and on Twitter by following #AlligatorsAward
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The Judging Panel
Full 2021 judging panel of seven judges to be announced soon...
Arabella Stein
director of The Bright Agency
Margaret Wallace-Jones
co-director of The Alligator's Mouth
Tony West
co-director of The Alligator's Mouth
Previous Shortlists
WINNER 2020:
King Coo The Curse of the Mummy's Gold by Adam Stower
WINNER 2019:
Nice Work for
The Cat and the King
by Nick Sharratt
Alison Green Books
