Today I am dancing like a wild-wooder! It is with utter joy and delight that I can tell you that THE ADVENTURES OF PORTLY THE OTTER has been longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for children’s fiction. 🦦
I’m so proud of the book Polly Dunbar and I have created along with the amazing team at Farshore Books. I love brave little Portly. It is wonderful to see his adventures recognised in this way.🦦
The Wainwright Prizes honour exceptional nature and conservation writing. There are five categories of prizes which spotlight writing and illustration that celebrates the natural world and inspire readers of all ages to protect it.
The longlist is stuffed with glorious books by excellent authors. If you’re looking for a nature infused read, then look no futher.
The Children’s Wainwright Prize for Fiction
● Tadpole Summer, Catherine Bruton (Nosy Crow)
● The Waters and the Wild, Eilish Fisher, illustrated by David Rooney (Penguin Random House Children’s UK Puffin)
● The Green Kingdom, Cornelia Funke and Tammi Hartung, illustrated by Melissa Castrillón (DK flip)
● The Lone Husky, Hannah Gold, illustrated by Levi Pinfold (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
● The Shell Keepers, Truly Johnston (Chicken House)
● Swanfall, Sophie Kirtley (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
● The Adventures of Portly the Otter: Untold Tales From the Wind in the Willows, M.G. Leonard, illustrated by Polly Dunbar (Farshore, HarperCollins)
● The Danger of Small Things, Caryl Lewis (Simon & Schuster Children’s Books)
● Birdlands, Anthony McGowan, illustrated by Keith Robinson (Rock the Boat, Oneworld Publications)
● The Monsters at the End of the World, Rebecca Orwin, Oriol Vidal (Penguin Random House Children’s UK Puffin)
● Alyssa and the Enchanted Forest, Alexandra Sheppard, illustrated by Bex Glendining (Faber & Faber)
● The Horse Dreamer, Holly Surplice (Chicken House)
● Tree Thing, Piers Torday, illustrated by Matthew Taylor Wilson (Quercus Children’s Books)
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