People across Ireland have voted celebrated author John Boyne’s 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' as their all-time favourite of the 21 books which have won the annual Bisto Children’s Book of the Year Award since the awards began in 1990.

YUCK! That’s Not a Monster! by Angela McAllister and Alison Edgson (Little Tiger; €13.90) is the story of a misfit. Mr and Mrs Monster are thrilled when their gloriously ugly offspring, Frightful and Horrid, are hatched out.

YOUNG readers are to have their own say in the country’s longest-running awards for children’s books this year.

TALES of magical and epic journeys. Themes of adventure, friendship, conflict and loss. Unjust imprisonment, childhood sorrow and a supernatural thriller.