Ages 6–8 Shortlist – The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2024

Bad Panda: The Cake Escape by Swapna Haddow and Sheena Dempsey

On EVERY PAGE you will find: Guaranteed laughs! Stylish two-colour illustrations! General PANDAmonium!

Lin the panda is on a mission: to find her best friend, Fu. He’s disappeared from the zoo! Has he been stolen by the Horrid Human? Only her badness can help her find him . . .

Luckily this panda is as fearless as she is fluffy! Just don’t call her ‘cute’ . . .

Bunny vs Monkey: Machine Mayhem! by Jamie Smart

Genius inventor Skunky has just designed a brand-new creation . . . a robot called Metal Eve! She needs to learn everything there is to know about life, so it’s probably not the best idea that she’s surrounded by Bunny, Monkey, Weenie, Pig and the gang. The only thing she’s going to learn from them is that life in the Woods is very, very silly indeed! Laughs will be aplenty in the hit comic book sensation!

Grimwood: Let the Fur Fly! by Nadia Shireen

Laugh your head off in this second adventure in the bestselling, highly acclaimed Grimwood series.

Your favourite fox cub siblings Ted and Nancy are back with an all-new wildly funny story that will have children (and their grown-ups) begging for more.

Ted and Nancy love their new life in Grimwood – the forest where anything can happen. But the dastardly mayor of neighbouring town Twinklenuts is on a mission to take over Grimwood and kick everyone out. Ted and Nancy must muster up bags of courage, rally their friends, and show off their treebonking skills to save the home they’ve grown to love.

The Worst Class in the World Goes Wild! by Joanna Nadin and Rikin Parekh

Head teacher Mrs Bottomley-Blunt thinks 4B is the WORST CLASS IN THE WORLD. She says school is not about footling or fiddle-faddling or FUN. It is about LEARNING and it is high time 4B tried harder to EXCEL at it.

But best friends Stanley and Manjit didn’t LITERALLY mean to swap Killer for a War of Wizard’s playing card and set him loose in school. And they really didn’t LITERALLY mean to EXPLODE fizzy foam all over the classroom and all over Mrs Bottomley-Blunt. These things just happened, even though they had FOOLPROOF plans to get away with it all.