# The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods by Mikey Please has won the 2025 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. The book is a timeless comic tale about a café owner and her trusty waiter’s attempts to serve a particularly picky customer. The book also won the illustrated books category. Please’s debut novel, The Expanded Earth, is set to be published next week. Carlos Sánchez’s The Tale of a Thousand Faces won the younger readers category, with Nathanael Lessore prevailing in the older readers category for King of Nothing.
The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods wins the 2025 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize