E: 11/09 Win one of the Wainwright Prize shortlists

Midnighter

National Book Tokens

url: https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/win/win-one-of-the-wainwright-prize-shortlists

This summer, we're delighted to give you the chance to win one of these incredible shortlists: choose from Nature Writing, Conservation Writing, Illustrative Books, Children's Fiction, Children's Non-Fiction, or Children's Picture Books.

The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on Wednesday 10th September 2025.

Here are the shortlists in full:

Nature Writing

• The Possibility of Tenderness by Jason Allen-Paisant
• Intertidal by Yuvan Aves
• Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
• Our Oaken Bones by Merlin Hanbury-Tenison
• Of Thorn & Briar by Paul Lamb
• The Accidental Garden by Richard Mabey
• Ingrained by Callum Robinson

Conservation Writing

• Nature's Genius by David Farrier
• Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
• Red Pockets by Alice Mah
• Climate Injustice by Friederike Otto, translated by Sarah Pybus
• A Training School for Elephants by Sophy Roberts
• What the Wild Sea Can Be by Helen Scales
• The Lie of the Land by Guy Shrubsole

Illustrative Books

• Swoop Sing Perch Paddle by Carry Akroyd & John McEwen
• Homecoming by Melissa Harrison, illustrated by Amanda Dilworth
• Insectopolis by Peter Kuper
• The Perimeter by Quintin Lake
• Trees in Winter by Richard Shimell
• Feed the Planet by George Steinmetz, with Joel K. Bourne Jr. & Michael Pollan

Children's Fiction

• Ghostlines by Katya Balen
• Turtle Moon by Hannah Gold, illustrated by Levi Pinfold
• Ettie and the Midnight Pool by Julia Green, illustrated by Pam Smy
• Wildful by Kengo Kurimoto
• Wildlands by Brogen Murphy
• Land of the Last Wildcat by Lui Sit, illustrated by David Dean

Children's Non-Fiction

• National Trust: Look What I Found by the River by Moira Butterfield, illustrated by Jesús VeronaUniversity of Cambridge: Think Big: Secrets of Bees by Ben Hoare, illustrated by Nina Chakrabarti
• MEGA by Jules Howard, illustrated by Gavin Scott
• Cloudspotting for Beginners by Gavin Pretor-Pinney, illustrated by William Grill
• Wildlife in the Balance by Dr Sharon Wismer, illustrated by Terri Po
• Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin, illustrated by Louise Forshaw

Children's Picture Books

• Flower Block by Lanisha Butterfield, illustrated by Hoang Giang
• Bothered By Bugs by Emily Gravett
• HERD by Stephen Hogtun
• The World to Come by Robert Macfarlane & Johnny Flynn, illustrated by Emily Sutton
• Frog by Isabel Thomas, illustrated by Daniel Egnéus
• Leave the Trees, Please by Benjamin Zephaniah, illustrated by Melissa Castrillon
• The Wild by Yuval Zommer