Aaron wins 2026 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize

In the UK, Huw Aaron has won the 2026 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, worth £5000 (A$9657), for Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob (Puffin), reports the Bookseller.

Aaron’s is the second picture book in a row to win after Mikey Please won in 2025 with The Café at the Edge of the Woods (HarperCollins Children’s Books).

Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob is described as a “hilarious and imaginative rhyming story, featuring truly monstrous, yet strangely familiar bedtime routines that will delight sleepy little creatures everywhere”. The book won the picture book category as well as the overall prize.

Evie and Maryam’s Family Tree by Janeen Hayat (Guppy Books) won the Younger Readers category and A Language of Dragons by SF Williamson (Harper Fire) won in the category for Older Readers.

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