The Children’s Laureate award is funded by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA).

Waterstone’s are sole sponsors of the 2009-11 award.

We would also like to thank the following publishers for supporting the Children's Laureate:

Lead publisher sponsors
Random House Children’s Books and Walker Books.

Additional publisher supporters

Scholastic, Egmont, Macmillan Children’s Books, Puffin Books, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, HarperCollins Children’s Books, Templar Publishing, Oxford University Press, Simon and Schuster, Usborne Children’s Books, Barefoot Books, Andersen Press, Evans Brothers, Orion Children’s Books,  Little Tiger Press and Hachette Children's Books.

image © Laurence Cendrowicz 2009