The Alligator's Mouth Award 2025 Submissions are Open!

The Alligator’s Mouth Award celebrates the very best highly illustrated British books for readers aged 6 - 8.

The award is inviting UK publishers to submit their entries before Friday 22nd November 2024. Publishers can submit up to three titles per imprint.

The winner of the 2024 award was Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre, who won with Adventuremice: Otter Chaos (David Fickling Books). Reeve and McIntyre will be returning as a judges for the 2025 award, alongside a panel of children’s book experts and industry figures. The judges will be announced in November.

The Alligator’s Mouth Award party 2024

Tony West and Margaret Wallace-Jones, co-owners of the Alligator’s Mouth Bookshop commented: “Authors, Illustrators and their publishers continue to bedazzle us with amusing, witty and subversive stories, decorated with illustrations to pore over and, if we are lucky, a map to get lost in. Many past entries have spawned a series of titles which are brilliant as children find their feet in the foothills of their reading journey. We are so pleased to shine a spotlight on these titles that deserve to be in every school.”

The longlist will be announced in March 2025, and the shortlist will be announced in May 2025.

Keep up to date with the awards at www.thealligatorsmouth.co.uk/award and on Twitter by following #AlligatorsAward.