Winners and Shortlisted books (2018-2025)

Nadya

Flyaway Boy

All of Me 🏆

Unlucky Chumki

Srinivasa Ramanujan: Friend of Numbers 🏆

The Girl Who Ironed Her Hair and Other Stories

Rattu and Poorie’s Adventures in History

Letters to Ammi

Hungry To Play

The Gular Flower

The Mountains of Mumbai 🏆

Lost and Found in a Mumbai Koliwada

Dotted Lines

In My Heart

Ammama’s Sari

Somnath Hore: Wounds

Rain Must Fall 🏆

Bandilanka’s Forgotten Lives

The Secret Life of Debbie G.

The Teenage Diary of Razia Sultan

Queen of Earth

Oonga 🏆

Nomad’s Land

Gravepyres School for the Recently Deceased

The Big thoughts of Little Luv

Thatha’s Pumpkin

Cat, Come Back

Cat’s Diwali

Ammu and The Sparrows 🏆

Journey to the Forbidden City

Young Pandavas: The City of Elephants

The Torchbearers

The Piano: Story of a Friendship

The Adventures of the Kohinoor 🏆

No Nonsense Nandhini

The Chirmi Chasers

The Miracle on Sunderbaag Street 🏆

Mini’s Questions

Friends Behind Walls

The Clockwala’s Clues