Redbridge Children’s Book Awards 2023

 A drumroll, loud cheers and applause accompanied the announcement of the winners of the 2023 Redbridge Children’s Book Awards.

This year’s winners were:  Winner of the Children’s category: Tyger by SF Said

'There are three doors that I may show you. You will find a different kind of power behind each one . . .'Adam has found something incredible in a rubbish dump in London. A mysterious, mythical, magical animal. A TYGER and the Tyger is in danger. Adam and his friend Zadie are determined to help, but it isn't just the tyger's life at stake. Their whole world is on the verge of destruction. Can they learn to use their powers before it's too late?

• Winner of the Teenage category: Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed
• Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. One thing she's learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist's job is to find the facts and not let personal bias affect the story: but that changes the day she discovers Jawad.
  
  Jawad Ali was just fourteen when a teacher saw him wearing a cosplay jetpack and mistook it for a bomb. A mistake that got Jawad arrested, labelled a terrorist - 'Bomb Boy' - and eventually killed. But who was the young boy behind the headlines?
  
  With Jawad's haunting voice guiding her throughout her investigation, Safiya seeks to tell the whole truth about the murdered boy and those who killed him.
  
  A powerful story of our times, Hollow Fires exposes the evil that hides in plain sight and the silent complicity of privileged bystanders who use alternative facts to bend the truth to their liking.