The shortlists for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards have been announced with twelve excellent books chosen in both of the Specsavers Children's Book of the Year categories.
Specsavers Children's Book of the Year Junior Category:
I'm a Girl by Yasmeen Ismail
The Snow Beast by Chris Judge
The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
The Boy who Fell of the Mayflower by P.J. Lynch
A Dublin Fairytale by Nicola Colton
Imaginary Fred by Eoin Colfer and Oliver Jeffers
Specsavers Children's Book of the Year Senior Category:
Asking for It by Louise O'Neill
Darkmouth: Worlds Explode by Shane Hegarty
Demon Road by Derek Landy
One by Sarah Crossan
Once upon a Place collated by Eoin Colfer
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne
You can find out more about the awards that bring together readers, authors, booksellers, publishers and librarians to celebrate the very best of Irish writing, on the Irish Book Awards website at http://www.irishbookawards.ie/
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