Winner Bolton Children’s Fiction Awards 2023

I’m a bit late with the post, but I’m sure you’d like to know who won this year.

Well done librarians! There were some great books on the list:

The Ship of Doom by M A Bennett
The Last Bear by Hannah Gold
How I saved the World in a Week by Polly Ho-Yen
Dread Wood by Jennifer Killick
Carnival of the Lost by Kieran Larwood
The Last Firefox by Lee Newbery
#BCFA2023

Drumroll …

The winner: Dread Wood by Jennifer Killick

https://www.boltonschool.org/news/2023-06-29/put-the-work-in-and-believe-in-yourself-advises-winning-author

I used to love guessing who the winner was when my kids used to go to school. This year I was wrong again, but they were all such fab reads that it was hard to call it!