2024 Little Rebels Award Winner Announced

The Little Rebels Award is delighted to announce its winner for 2024

THE LIZZIE AND BELLE MYSTERIES: PORTRAITS AND POISON by J.T. Williams, with illustrations by Simone Douglas, is the winner of the 2024 Little Rebels Award!
The first in the series, Drama and Danger, was longlisted for the Little Rebels Award in 2023. 
Portraits and Poison explores a history of Black British activism, introducing young readers to Georgian-London and exposing the racist mechanisms at work in the conventions of Western portraiture.

J T Williams was awarded £2,000, funded by the Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust, £250 through the Gill Lewis Award – a sum that will be donated by the winner to a charity of their choice – and a limited edition print by Ken Wilson-Max, new for 2024 and commissioned by and exclusive to the award.
The winner’s announcement was made at the Little Rebels Award Ceremony, held at the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education on Wednesday 16th October. It followed a panel discussion on centring radical fiction for children, chaired by Dr Darren Chetty and was attended by the 2024 shortlistees: Yaba Badoe, Jen Reid, Kate Rafiq, Harry Woodgate, J T Williams, James Catchpole and Karen George, Helen Rutter and Elisa Paganelli.

This is the 12th year of the Little Rebels Award, which celebrates radical fiction for children aged 0-12. Given on behalf of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB), it is administered by ARB members, Housmans Bookshop and Letterbox Library. It recognises children’s books which explore political ideas, challenge the status quo or promote social justice, social equality and a more peaceful and fairer world.

For more information, visit: littlerebels.org