PuffinBooks

@PuffinBooks

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From picture books to tween reads, Puffin has a story to fire every imagination

London puffin.co.uk Joined February 2009

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Latest posts 5

We’re absolutely thrilled that How to Be Disabled and Proud won the Wellbeing Award at @theweekjunior Book Awards 2026 last week! 🎉

A HUGE congratulations to Cathy Reay and Jaleel Hudson – and what a fantastic moment at The Week Junior Book Awards! 💜

Author Cathy Reay and illustrator Jaleel Hudson smile on stage at The Week Junior Book Awards 2026, holding the Wellbeing Award for How to Be Disabled and Proud. Behind them, a large screen displays the book cover and announces it as the winner of the Wellbeing category.

PuffinBooks @PuffinBooks Sep 18

We are incredibly proud to announce that Otherlands, written by Thomas Halliday and illustrated by @gavillustrator, has won both the @wainwrightprize Children’s Non-Fiction Award and the Wainwright Children’s Book Award for 2026! 🥳

Congratulations, Thomas and Gavin! 👏

The book Otherlands (written by Thomas Halliday, illustrated by Gavin Scott) sits upon a small easel on a stone wall, facing towards the viewer. In the background is a tall grey stone wall covered in vines of ivy. Ivy is also in the foreground on the wall under the book. Red fallen leaves are scattered across the ground in the background. At the top, the text: “The Children’s Wainwright Prize: Children’s Non-Fiction Winner 2026”.

The book Otherlands (written by Thomas Halliday, illustrated by Gavin Scott) sits upon a small easel on a golden-brown curtain, which forms both the background and covers the floor in the photograph. A spotlight is shining upon the cover of the book from the left-hand side somewhere. At the top, the text: “The Children’s Wainwright Prize: Book of the Year Winner 2026”.

PuffinBooks @PuffinBooks Sep 9

We’re thrilled that World Book Day 2027 will feature TWO fantastic Puffin £1/€1.50 books!
You can redeem your token for This is My Music! by @TheSelinaBrown (illus. Maxwell A. Oginni) or Jamaal Target: Mission D.N.A. by Isaac Hamilton-McKenzie (cover illus. Brittany Jackson) 🎉

A solid lilac background featuring two book covers in the centre. Above these covers in the corners are the World Book Day and National Book Tokens logos.

The first cover features three brightly coloured segments, the first is red with a young girl with her hair up in a bun, the middle is blue with a young boy with braided hair, and the last is orange with a young girl with her hair in several bubble braids. They are dancing under spotlights on a yellow floor. The title of the book is THIS IS MY MUSIC, the word Music is in a green speech bubble. At the bottom are the names: Selina Brown and Maxwell A. Oginni.

The cover of the book on the right features a young boy braced for a fight against unseen figures. He appears to have electricity coming from him and is surrounded by bright blue tubes. The title on the book is Jamaal Target: MISSION D.N.A., with the authors name Isaac Hamilton-McKenzie below the title.

Text below the covers reads: “2027 £1/€1.50 Book // FREE with your token!”.

PuffinBooks @PuffinBooks Mar 27

We are super proud enormous to reveal that Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob, written and illustrated by Huw Aaron, is the Overall Winner of the @Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2026! 🎊

PuffinBooks @PuffinBooks Mar 10

Huge congratulations to @KaKatewinter, who is the @petersbooks Children's Non-Fiction Winner - as voted by teachers and librarians! 🎉🥳