The Children’s Booker prize will include works of translation – here are five expert recommendations to get your kids excited

By Sophie Heywood, Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Cultures, University of Reading
Emma Page, PhD in Children's literature, University of Reading

The buzz around the newly announced Children’s Booker has focused on its potential to “tell kids they matter”, as they get their own version of this prestigious literary prize. With children actually included in the judging process, the prize has the power to bring thousands more young people “into the wonderful world of reading,” in the words of children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce.

As Cottrell-Boyce noted in an article for The…

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