Kirsty Applebaum

Children’s Author

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BookTrust’s Great Books Guide
2019, 2020 & 2022
Coventry Inspiration Book Award Winner 2020
Teach Primary Book Awards Runner-Up 2021
Leicester Reading Rampage Most Borrowed Book 2022
Alligator’s Mouth Award 2023 shortlisted
Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2020 shortlisted
UKLA Book Award 2020 shortlisted
CILIP Carnegie nominated 2020, 2021 & 2022
United Agents Prize for Most Promising Writing for Young People 2016 Winner
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Latest News

The fifth Princess Minna book,The Wicked Wood, published on 12th October 2023

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The fourth Princess Minna book, The Best Princess, published on 1st June 2023.

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Kirsty has written a spooky tale for Farshore’s MG horror story collection, Read, Scream, Repeat., which published in August.

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