Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year, Junior

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 from 2017, Teen & Young Adult. The junior category is aimed at readers under 8 years of age.

Previous Winners:

• 2019 123 Ireland! by Aoife Dooley
• 2018 The President’s Cat by Peter Donnelly
• 2017 A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea – Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood – 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