The Booker Prize Foundation, the organization that awards the International Booker Prize and the Booker Prize, has announced the inaugural Children's Booker Prize.

The Children's Booker Prize will launch in 2026 and will be awarded yearly starting in 2027.

The £50,000 (approx. $92,000 Cdn) aims to celebrate the best fiction for children between eight and 12 years old, written in or translated into English and published in the U.K. and or Ireland.

The announcement marks the first new prize from the Booker Prize Foundation since the launch of the International Booker Prize in 2005.

U.K. Children’s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce will be the inaugural chair of judges for 2027 and the award will be judged by a combined panel including both children and adults.

Frank Cottrell-Boyce is the ch

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