Alastair Chisholm

Alastair Chisholm is a Scottish children's writer and puzzle maker.


His Inch and Grub won the 2022 Queen's Knickers Award. and the Scottish Book Trust's 2022 Bookbug Children's Picture Book Prize.

Orion Lost was a finalist in "younger fiction" section of the 2021 Waterstones Children's Book Prize.

One Hungry Dragon was published in 2023.

Reek, a dystopian thriller with illustrations by George Caltsoudas, received the 2016 United Kingdom Literacy Association Award in the 7 to 10+ category.

References

  1. ↑ "Alastair Chisholm". Scottish Book Trust. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  2. ↑ "The Queen's Knickers Award". Society of Authors. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  3. ↑ "Winning books from The Bookbug Picture Book Prize". Scottish Book Trust. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  4. ↑ Rudden, Liam (26 January 2022). "Edinburgh author wins Scottish Books Trust's prestigious Bookbug Picture Book Prize". Edinburgh Evening News. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  5. ↑ "Waterstones Children's Book Prize Shortlist 2021". Wokingham Borough LIbraries. 23 June 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
  6. ↑ Brown, Lauren (5 July 2022). "Hachette Children's nets two from Scottish authors as part of regional talent strategy". Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  7. ↑ Amato, Megan (10 March 2023). "Book Review: "One Hungry Dragon"". Scottish Field. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  8. ↑ "Past Winners" (PDF). UKLA. Retrieved 23 October 2026.