The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2025 – Winners

Best Laugh Out Loud Picture Book

There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah by Tim Nicoll and Ross Collins

Buckle up for There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah. A laugh-out-loud funny picture book with vehicles and animals!

Three, two, one… the race has begun and the animals are off! Rhinos on roller-skates, foxes in fire engines, lions in lorries, penguins on pogo sticks… There’s nothing faster than a cheetah. Or is there…?

Perfect for sharing together, this wonderfully wacky picture book is sure to get young readers giggling. With a bouncy, read-aloud story from Tom Nicoll, and hilarious illustrations from the award-winning Ross Collins.

Tom Nicoll

_{Tom is an award-winning writer of funny books for children and he is on record as declaring that he actually thinks cats are cuter than puppies.}

Ross Collins

_{Ross has illustrated over 140 books for children. When he’s not creating children’s books he enjoys working on character development for animation studios.}

Best Laugh Out Loud Book for 6-8-year-olds

Trixie Pickle Art Avenger: Toxic Takedown by Olaf Falafel

A laugh-out-loud illustrated adventure featuring Trixie Pickle, the Banksy of her school.

A weird sickness bug has been spreading through Wormwood Town and everyone is wondering if there’s something in the water. Trixie Pickle Art Avenger uses the power of art to investigate – can she get to the bottom of the mystery around the town reservoir?

She’s got a lot on her plate – being bored to sleep by Money Week at school, making comics with her best friend Beeks and finding a way to bring down the local mean girls – but with artistic inspiration from Botticelli, Damien Hirst and Kehinde Wiley, the Art Avenger is sure to win the day.

Olaf Falafel

_{Olaf is an author, illustrator and a stand-up comedian (which is pretty similar to a stand-up chameleon except he doesn’t change colour to blend in with the background).}

Best Laugh Out Loud Book for 9-12-year-olds

Evil Emperor Penguin: The World Will Be Mine! by Laura Ellen Anderson

Evil Emperor Penguin’s plans to take over planet Earth are in place, and nothing can stop him… wait, is that his arch-nemesis, Evil Cat?! Surely the world is too small for TWO evil geniuses!

Who will become the cutest evil genius in the world?

Giggles are guaranteed in this delightfully silly comic, with extra how-to-draw content so young readers can become creators, too!

Laura Ellen Anderson

_{Laura grew up in Essex spending almost every day drawing or creating in one way or another! Unable to keep still, she is constantly up for adventure whether that be in her imagination or the real world!}

Best Laugh Out Loud Non-Fiction Book

Kay’s Incredible Inventions by Adam Kay and Henry Paker

Do you ever wonder where the stuff around you all came from? No, not from eBay. I mean, who had the amazing idea of making a mobile phone or the annoying idea of building a school? For example, did you know that Velcro was invented by a dog and WiFi by a movie star? (Spoiler alert – it wasn’t Zendaya.)

In the fourth laugh-out-loud book from Adam Kay and Henry Paker, you’ll learn all about the coolest, grossest and most ridiculous inventions in the world. You’ll meet the queen who used the first ever toilet, learn why margarine used to be full of maggots and find out why Ancient Greeks wiped their bums on dinner plates. Oh, and hopefully some slightly more useful facts as well…

Adam Kay

_{Adam is a former doctor who has written five million books and sold seven copies. No, hang on – he’s written seven books and sold five million copies.}

Henry Paker

_{Henry was once a little boy who did silly doodles in the margins of books. Now he is a grown man who does silly doodles in the middle of books.}