Well this is rather nice! Sophy Henn straight in at #2 and Jamie Smart at #3 #8 and #10. Indies love comics!

Thrilled to have Sarah McIntyre and Elissa Elwick on this most excellent list! 🥳

Oh Happy Day! Get involved in this riot of bonkersness 🎉🎉🎉 Congrats, Sophy, you wonder.

One of my all time faves. Very chuffed it’s getting a new lease of life. Picture book fans, do seek it out, you’ll love it. ❤️

🐳🐳 Thrilled for little Gigantic and gigantic-talent Rob Biddulph I love this prize! What a brilliant shortlist.

🥳😭😍🍾😭😭😭 This news made this silly happy face possible even after a twelve meeting day. Jamie Smart YOU BLOODY WONDER

Well, that is quite something! An incredible feat, and more to come! Huge congratulations Jamie and all at DFB. What FUN!

🫣 *hides for eternity* (but seriously, thank you, it's a very nice thing and only because of the incredible authors, illustrators, publishers and colleagues I am lucky enough to work with). Huge congratulations to the agents on this list; I am in awe. 🙏

Happy day after World Book Day. Inexplicably our dress-up is today. Jamie Smart the love runs deep ❤️

Huge congratulations to Phil Earle Emma Carroll 🇺🇦 and Sharon King-Chai on their Carnegie longlistings. 🥰

🎉🙌🏼And thrice hurray!

🥳🍾 Hurray again!

❤️🍾 Hurray!

It is a testament to the hard work, brilliant creativity and well-deserved success of, well of Jamie basically, that it has expanded the market for children’s graphic novels to the point where these Bigtime Celebrities start jumping on board.

Hero

Any authors without a WBD home?

You heard The Bookseller Watch this one 👀👀👀

☺️🥳 It gets better all the time. What a ride. Huge congratulations to megastar Jamie and the whole DFB and Phoenix teams. BONANZA BUSINESS. 💫💫💫