Created by The Author School, the Diverse Book Awards highlight the best of diverse voices, novels featuring Black, Asian, Latin American and/or inclusive main characters, published in the UK during 2020.The Awards are divided into three categories, children's, Young Adult and Adult, with ten books longlisted per category. The books nominated in the Children's and YA categories, many of which are available to borrow from the EPHS Libraries, are:
Children:
A Secret of Birds & Bone by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Baller Boys by Venessa Taylor, illustrated by Kenneth Ghann
Clean Up by Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola, Nathan Bryon
Do You Know Me? by Rebecca Westcott, Libby Scott
Dragon Mountain by Katie & Kevin Tsang
Little Badman and the Time-Travelling Teacher of Doom by Humza Arshad and Henry White, illustrated by Aleksei Bitskoff
Nothing Ever Happens Here by Sarah Hagger-Holt
Too Small Tola by Atinuke, illustrated by Onyinye Iwu
Windrush Child by Benjamin Zephaniah
Zombierella: Fairy Tales Gone Bad by Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Freya Hartas
Young Adult:
And The Stars Were Burning Brightly by Danielle Jawando
Boy, Everywhere by A. M. Dassu
Cane Warriors by Alex Wheatle
Crown of Crowns by Clara Loveman
Eight Pieces of Silva by Patrice Lawrence
Hideous Beauty by William Hussey
Hijab and Red Lipstick by Yousra Imran
Love Frankie by Jacqueline Wilson
Run, Rebel by Manjeet Mann
Wonderland by Juno Dawson
The shortlist will be announced on 20th September 2021.