Previously unpublished manuscripts or any illustrations for works for children that satisfy requirements of the regulations current season.

Restrictions on age, citizenship or place of residence of the author competition work there is no New Children's Book.

The competition is supported by famous writers, experts in the field of literature, art, film and media industries, famous media personalities, and book and publishing market professionals.

The winners and runners-up of the competition are awarded special prizes. The main prize of the New Children's Book competition is a contract with the ROSMEN publishing house. Regardless of the opinion of the jury, the ROSMEN publishing house also considers other manuscripts submitted to the competition for possible publication. The “New Children's Book” competition is the winner of the professional book market award “Inspector” in the category “Best project to promote books and reading.” Many books that were published thanks to the “New Children's Book” competition were awarded new awards and were awarded such authoritative awards as: “BabyNOS”, “Runet Book Award”, “Golden Delvig”, “RosKon”, “EuroСon”,
“Medal to them. N.V. Gogol", "Prize named after. V. Krapivina” and others.

On November 21, 2018, applications began to be accepted for the X season of the annual manuscript competition organized by the ROSMEN publishing house. Over the 10 years of its history, the competition has grown in many ways. The organizers decided to expand age limits audience of the works in question. That is why, starting from Season X, the competition will be called “New Book”.

Season X nominations

"Stories for the little ones"(short integral works for children under 5 years old).

"Young Adult: Thriller. Mysticism. Horror"(prose works for young people over 16 years old).

Season X schedule

November 21, 2018 - April 05, 2019: Acceptance of works (application forms will close at 19:00 on April 5, 2019).
June 03, 2019: Longlist.
July 01, 2019: Shortlist.

Season X Expert Jury

Writers Masha Rupasova, Anastasia Orlova, Natalia Shcherba.

Artists and illustrators Igor Oleynikov, John Patience(United Kingdom), Olga Monina, Anastasia Arkhipova.

General producer of Sreda company Alexander Tsekalo.

Head of the children's book department of the library of foreign literature Olga Mäeots.

Editor-in-Chief of the Gorky website Konstantin Milchin.

Editor-in-chief of radio "Book" Egor Serov.

Chief editor of the website Letidor.ru Ksenia Krasnova.

Chief editor of the film company "STV" Alexander Arkhipov.

Chief bibliographers of the Russian State Library and editorial staff of the Bibliogid.ru website Natalya Savushkina And Alexey Kopeikin.

Editor of the book section of the World of Fantasy website Boris Nevsky.

Experts from among the most active readers social network LiveLib.

Season X partners

You can find out more about the conditions of the competition, nominations, the history of previous seasons, as well as news from the current season on the official website of the competition

VIII Announced international competition"New children's book." Deadline April 2, 2017 (extended until April 9).

Organizer: publishing house "ROSMEN"

There are no restrictions on age, citizenship or place of residence of participants.

The competition includes original works created in Russian and not previously published in commercial editions (over 1000 copies), as well as illustrations, both previously published and unpublished.

Works are accepted in three main categories:

• In the “Poems and Fairy Tales for the Little Ones” nomination, works for children from birth to 5 years old, up to 20,000 characters with spaces (0.5 author’s sheet), including works with author’s illustrations, are accepted. The purpose of the nomination is to search and publish fairy tales for little ones, fairy tales in verse, fairy tales-pictures, continuing and developing the traditions of prose and poetic works for children, laid down by V. Suteev, K. Chukovsky and B. Zakhoder. The genres of fairy tales and poems for children require increased demands on the language and intonation of the work, since parents primarily read works of these genres aloud to their children. Therefore, the main requirements for manuscripts in this category are style, appropriateness for age and size, originality storyline. Works exceeding 20,000 characters in length will not be accepted for consideration.
• In the “Fantasy World” nomination, prose works for children from 10 to 16 years old with a volume of 8 to 15 author’s sheets are accepted (1 author’s sheet = 40,000 characters with spaces). The main requirement for works in the nomination is a unique world, original images, and non-trivial plot development.
• The “New Children's Illustration” nomination accepts illustrations for any works for children from 2 to 12 years old. The competition application must contain 4 illustrations indicating the works for which they were made. If the illustrations have already been published, the date and publisher must be indicated. Basic requirements for works: strict compliance with the specified age, originality of style and artistic techniques.

The longlist of the competition will be announced on June 5, 2017, the shortlist on July 3. Voting for special prizes will begin on July 4th. The award ceremony for the winners will take place in September 2017.

• The main prize is a contract and publication of the winning manuscript in the ROSMEN publishing house or illustration of one of the books.
• The winners and runners-up of the competition are awarded special prizes.
• The best works of the competition participants are published in an illustrated collection.
• Regardless of the opinion of the jury, the ROSMEN publishing house also considers other manuscripts submitted to the competition for possible publication.

November 22, 2017 The annual competition “New Children's Book” announces the start of the IX season. Authors and designers of children's rooms are invited to participate in the competition.
books. This time the competition will consider prose works for children from six years old, as well as works for teenagers. In addition to the authors of books in
Children's book designers will be able to take part in the competition. All applications are accepted through special forms on the competition website: http://newbook-awards.ru.

The winners of each of the three nominations will receive the main prize - an offer to publish their work in the ROSMEN publishing house or illustrate
future book. The editors of the magazine “Liza. My child", magazine
“World of Fantasy”, libraries of Russia and the club of fantasy lovers from “ROSMAN” Terra Incognita. Traditionally, texts that make it to the finals of the competition will be
available for reader voting.

In the IX season of the “New Children's Book”, the acceptance of works will take place from November 22, 2017 to April 8, 2018 inclusive. Works are accepted in three main categories:

“For those over six” (prose works for children from 6 to 10 years old)

“Fantasy. Mysticism. Thriller" (prose works for children from 10 to 16 years old)

“Children's book design PRO” (professional author's layouts of spreads and book covers for children from 2 to 12 years old)

The longlist of the competition will be announced on June 13, 2018, the shortlist will appear on July 2. The short list will include 10 applications in each category. Voting for special prizes will begin on July 2.
The works will be evaluated by an authoritative jury, which includes writers, artists and experts in the field of literature and book graphics, representatives of the media industry, as well as leading employees of the ROSMEN publishing house.

Among the jury: children's writers Mikhail Yasnov, Valery Voskoboynikov, Arthur Givargizov, writer Oleg Divov, writer and journalist Irina Lukyanova, writer and translator Natalia Osoianu, writer and book reviewer Oleg Zhdanov, chief bibliographer of the Russian State Children's Library and editor of the Bibliogid.ru portal Alexey Kopeikin, chief librarian of the Central Children's Library named after. A. Gaidar (Moscow) Tatyana Rudishina, editor of the book section of the magazine “World of Science Fiction” Boris
Nevsky, editor-in-chief of the magazine “Liza. My child" Elena Girutskaya, literary agents Yulia Gumen and Natalya Banke, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, teacher of the Department of Graphic Arts of the Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry named after. S.G. Stroganova Tatyana Kosterina, head of the children's book department of the library of foreign literature Olga Myaeots, director of the Institute of Graphics and Book Art named after V.A. Favorsky Oleg Korytov and others.

Yesterday I accidentally remembered that I still don’t know how the competition ended, organized by the largest children’s publishing house in Russia, Rosmen, announced back in December last year in LiveJournal.

“The rules are very simple,” the organizers wrote then. “We are publishing two spreads of a little book, for each page of which you need to come up with a couplet. The main prize: a contract with the publishing house + a set of books. There may be several main prizes!..”

Here, in fact, are the book spreads themselves for the little ones:

Then I came up with several versions of stories and sent them off. And yesterday, unexpectedly for myself, I learned from a link in the comments that the results of the competition were published on February 28 on the “Rosman” page... on Facebook...

The winner is Sergey Elov. His poems:

In Africa it is hot all day and night.

A rhinoceros and a giraffe go to the sea.

And a hippo named Borya

A whole hour awaits them by the sea.

Plop! - The hippopotamus dived into the water first.

Swims bravely with the fish.

Here is a rhinoceros cutting a wave with its nose.

Then the giraffe walks along the bottom.

5 incentive prizes:

Karen Markaryan

The giraffe and rhinoceros are called hippopotamuses:

“We are afraid to swim - what if there is someone there?

What if “It” was hiding in the depths?

Could you check by going to the bottom?”

The hippo dived under the water for his friends,

I saw a lot of sea “people” there:

“Swim calmly, the bottom has been checked!”

Friends are happy - “It” doesn’t live here...

Lyubov Fedorovna

One day a giraffe called to a rhinoceros:

It's so nice to swim a little in the heat!

The hippopotamus on the seashore said:

I can’t let you into the sea without adults!

And a sports coach - a hippopotamus swimmer -

Gives swimming lessons to children.

Now the rhinoceros and giraffe understand:

When it's safe, it's nice to swim!

Lyubov Polupanova

Giraffe and baby rhinoceros

We were going to swim a little.

So as not to suddenly cause trouble,

The lifeguard put on a ring.

A hippopotamus saw friends

My stomach hurt from laughing.

He boldly stepped into the water first,

He swam and dived skillfully.

I follow him seriously, not in make-believe,

Giraffe and baby rhinoceros.

Yulia Ivanova

To learn to swim,

It will take some effort.

In the meantime, just to be on the safe side,

Try on something new soon.

The most faithful friend at sea -

Bright swimming ring.

After all, no one will immediately

Neither a swimmer nor a diver.

Marina Simonova

Oh, what a pity for our friend

No life preserver!

To swim without fear

A mask is enough for me!

Maybe, dear Hippopotamus,

Will you sail with us?

Definitely! A matter of honor

I can swim with the giraffe together!

It’s interesting, isn’t it, how many stories can be written in just two spreads! It is a pity that the organizers of the competition did not inform how many authors participated in the competition and how many poems were sent (the fact that there is a lot is understandable). For example, I had three more options.

Congratulations to all participants and winners! Time will tell how the relationship with Rosman will develop further, hippos will tell))

PS. The answer to my question to Rosman has just arrived (10.55 in Riga). I'm adding it to the post:

"We initially had this competition focused on Facebook, that’s why
the results were published.

We call incentive prizes, of course, not just words
thanks :) These are sets of books from our publishing house."

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