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Winner of children's book prize announced
Scottish Book Trust has today revealed the winner of the 2020 Bookbug Picture Book Prize is The Station Mouse by Meg McLaren (Anderson Press). Over 13,000 children across Scotland cast their votes for the award online.
The award is run by Scottish Book Trust, the national charity changing lives through reading and writing, with support from Browns Books for Students. The Bookbug Picture Book Prize celebrates the most popular new picture books by Scottish authors or illustrators. The runners-up were The Prince and the Witch and the Thief and the Bears by Alastair Chisholm, illustrated by Jez Tuya (Walker Books) and Sophie Johnson: Unicorn Expert by Morag Hood, illustrated by Ella Okstad (Simon & Schuster).
Printmaker and illustrator Meg McLaren graduated from the prestigious MA in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. She now lives in Inverness and The Station Mouse is her third picture book.
A free copy of each of the three books on the shortlist was gifted to every Primary 1 child during Book Week Scotland (18 to 24 November 2019), in the Bookbug P1 Family Bag.
The winner was chosen by children across Scotland, aged between three years and seven years old, who voted for their favourite book by submitting a class vote online or at home, via the Scottish Book Trust website.
Meg McLaren said: "To win is an utter surprise, and it’s all the more special because I know it was the readers themselves who voted.”
Shortlisted authors and illustrators will receive £500 per book, and the winner will receive £3,000.