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Guppy Open Submission Longlist announcement!
We are absolutely thrilled to announce the longlist of the 2026 YA competition! In no particular order, the longlisted titles and authors are…: House of Clay by Charlie Baudry The…
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BACK TO SCHOOL!
How can it be September already? It’s the start of a new school year, and it’s the perfect time to send out a reminder that many of our brilliantly talented…
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Drum roll… it’s that time again… Guppy Books is opening the portholes for the Open Submission Competition 2026!
Dust off those manuscripts, open your computers – and take the plunge if you think your book might be in with the chance of joining this pile of brilliant and…
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Evie and Maryam’s Family Tree shortlisted for the Week Junior Breakthrough Children’s Book of the Year!
We are thrilled that Janeen Hayat’s wonderful debut, Evie and Maryam’s Family Tree, has been recognised by the awesome Week Junior, a magazine which does so much to encourage and…
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Best Of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel is the May Waterstones YA Book of the Month!
Not just content to be the Times Children’s Book of the Year, Kenneth Oppel’s extraordinary YA Best Of All Worlds has been chosen by Waterstones as their May YA Book…
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Evie and Maryam’s Family Tree wins the Waterstones Younger Readers Book Prize 2026!
We were so thrilled that the wonderful EVIE AND MARYAM’S FAMILY TREE won the Waterstones Younger Reader Book Prize at the ceremony in London at the flagship Waterstones Piccadilly –…
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