InspiREAD 2025 Longlist

With this year’s book award just around the corner, why wait? Dive into our Longlist now and start reading with your class before voting opens this Spring!

Our 2025 Longlist:

• A Wild Walk to School - by Rebecca Cobb
• Rainbow Flamingo - by Catherine Emmett
• Who Ate Steve? - by Susannah Lloyd
• Once Upon a Big Bad Wolf - by Leigh Hodgkinson
• How Many Dinosaurs is Too Many? - by Lou Peacock
• Priya Mistry and the Paw Prints Puzzle - by Babita Sharma
• Frank & Bert: The One with the Missing Biscuits - by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros
• Dick the Delightful Duck - by Kaye Umansky
• Big Bad Wolf Investigates Fairy Tales - by Catherine Cawthorne
• Call the Puffins - by Cath Howe
• The Council of Good Friends - by Nikesh Shukla
• Lenny Lemmon and the Trail of Crumbs - by Ben Davis
• Huxley and Flapjack Trouble at Sea - by Alan MacDondald
• Meet the Maliks: Twin Detectives - by Zanib Mian
• Ivy Newt and the Storm Witch - by Derek Keilty
• Sheep School - by Ross Montgomery
• Nush and the Stolen Emerald - by Jasbinder Bilan
• REEK - by Alastair Chisholm
• Shadowhall Academy: The Whispering Walls - by Phil Hickes
• The Letter with the Golden Stamp - by Onjali Q Rauf
• The Wanderdays: Journey to Fantome Island - by Clare Povey
• Wonder Brothers - by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
• The Clockwork Conspiracy - by Sam Sedgman

On 6 May, we’ll reveal our final shortlist featuring 12 outstanding titles across 3 categories including Picture Books, Shorter Books and Longer Books.  

Want to get involved? ELS member schools can request the shortlisted books, along with posters and bookmarks, to take part in the excitement this spring.

Click here to request InspiREAD 2025 books and materials (ELS member schools only).