Guardian Award
Encyclopedia
The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award is a prominent award for works of children's literature
Children's literature
Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

 by British or Commonwealth authors, published in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 during the preceding year. The award has been given annually since 1967, and is decided by a panel of authors and the review editor for The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

's
children's books section. It may be compared with the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal
The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association . The award is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The award has been given since 1922. ...

.

The Guardian also promotes a literary prize for adult fiction; see Guardian First Book Award
Guardian First Book Award
Guardian First Book Award, issued before 1999 as Guardian Fiction Prize or Guardian Fiction Award, is awarded to new writing in fiction and non-fiction.-History:...

.

List of winners

  • 2011 Andy Mulligan, Return To Ribblestrop
  • 2010 Michelle Paver
    Michelle Paver
    Michelle Paver is a British-based novelist and children's writer, author of the six-book series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, set in the pre-agricultural Stone Age.- Biography :...

    , Ghost Hunter
    Ghost hunter
    Ghost Hunter can refer to:*Ghost hunting, the practice of hunting ghosts*The Ghost Hunter, a series of novels**The Ghost Hunter, a television series based on the novels*Death of a Ghost Hunter, a 2007 horror film...

  • 2009 Mal Peet
    Mal Peet
    Mal Peet is an English author who writes mainly for young adults. His novels have won several awards, including the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.- Biography :...

    , Exposure
    Exposure (novel)
    Exposure is a sports novel for young adults by Mal Peet, published on 6 October 2008 by Walker Books Ltd. Inspired by William Shakespeare's Othello, the plot of the story follows Otello, a black football player and his high-profile relationship with Desmerelda, a white celebrity...

    (Walker Books
    Walker Books
    Walker Books is an independent British publisher of children's books, founded in 1978 by Sebastian Walker.The success of their Where's Wally? series enabled them to expand into the American market, starting a sister company called Candlewick Press in 1991.Amelia Edwards, co-founder of Walker Books,...

    )
  • 2008 Patrick Ness
    Patrick Ness
    Patrick Ness is an American author, journalist and lecturer who lives in London. He holds both American and British citizenship...

    , The Knife of Never Letting Go
    The Knife of Never Letting Go
    The Knife of Never Letting Go is the first installment in the Chaos Walking Trilogy written by Patrick Ness and published on May 5, 2008. It has won numerous awards, including the Booktrust Teenage Prize, the Guardian Award, and the 2008 James Tiptree, Jr...

    (Walker Books
    Walker Books
    Walker Books is an independent British publisher of children's books, founded in 1978 by Sebastian Walker.The success of their Where's Wally? series enabled them to expand into the American market, starting a sister company called Candlewick Press in 1991.Amelia Edwards, co-founder of Walker Books,...

    )
  • 2007 Jenny Valentine
    Jenny Valentine
    Jenny Valentine is a British children's novelist, best known for her award-winning novel Finding Violet Park.-Book history:Her first novel, Finding Violet Park, was published in 2007. It won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. The book's success caused...

    , Finding Violet Park
    Finding Violet Park
    Finding Violet Park is a young adult novel by Jenny Valentine, first published in 2007. It is about a fatherless teenage boy, Lucas Swain, who finds an urn containing the ashes of the titular Violet Park abandoned in a minicab office and determines to lay her to rest...

    (HarperCollins
    HarperCollins
    HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...

    )
  • 2006 Philip Reeve
    Philip Reeve
    Philip Reeve is a British author and illustrator. He presently lives on Dartmoor with his wife Sarah and their son Samuel.-Biography:...

    , A Darkling Plain
    A Darkling Plain
    A Darkling Plain is the fourth and final novel in the Mortal Engines Quartet series written by author Philip Reeve.The novel won the 2006 Guardian Award and the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction.-Setting:...

    (Scholastic)
  • 2005 Kate Thompson
    Kate Thompson (author)
    Kate Thompson is an award-winning writer for children and adults. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, she has lived in Ireland, where many of her books are set, since 1981. She is the youngest child of the social historians and peace activists E. P. Thompson and Dorothy Towers...

    , The New Policeman
    The New Policeman
    The New Policeman is a 2005 children's fantasy novel by author Kate Thompson. It was the winner of both the 2005 Whitbread Children's Book Award and the 2005 Guardian Award for the Children's Fiction Prize category.-Reception:...

    (Bodley Head)
  • 2004 Meg Rosoff
    Meg Rosoff
    Meg Rosoff is an American author based in London since 1989. She is best known for her novel How I Live Now, which won 3 awards including the Guardian Award , Michael L. Printz Award , Branford Boase Award and was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread Awards. Her second novel, , won the prestigious ...

    , How I Live Now
    How I Live Now
    How I Live Now is a novel by Meg Rosoff, first published in 2004. The book won three notable awards including the Michael L. Printz Award and received generally positive reviews.-Plot summary:...

    (Puffin
    Puffin Books
    Puffin Books is the children's imprint of British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s it has been the largest publisher of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world.-Early history:...

    )
  • 2003 Mark Haddon
    Mark Haddon
    Mark Haddon is an English novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.- Life and work :...

    , The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 novel by British writer Mark Haddon. It won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year and the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book...

    (David Fickling)
  • 2002 Sonya Hartnett
    Sonya Hartnett
    Sonya Hartnett is an Australian author.Hartnett writes fiction variously for children, young adults and adults and has won numerous prizes and awards, having been described as "the finest Australian writer of her generation". She wrote her first novel, Trouble All the Way, at the age of thirteen...

    , Thursday's Child (Walker
    Walker Books
    Walker Books is an independent British publisher of children's books, founded in 1978 by Sebastian Walker.The success of their Where's Wally? series enabled them to expand into the American market, starting a sister company called Candlewick Press in 1991.Amelia Edwards, co-founder of Walker Books,...

    )
  • 2001 Kevin Crossley-Holland
    Kevin Crossley-Holland
    Kevin John William Crossley-Holland is an English translator, children's author and poet.-Life and career:Born in Mursley, north Buckinghamshire, Holland grew up in Whiteleaf, a small village in the Chilterns...

    , The Seeing Stone
    The Seeing Stone
    The Seeing Stone is a novel written by Kevin Crossley and published in hardcover in August 2000, along with an audio tape version. This was followed by a paperback version in June 2001 and an audio CD in July 2003...

    (Orion
    Orion Publishing Group
    Orion Publishing Group Ltd. is a UK-based book publisher. It is owned by Hachette Livre. In 1998 Orion bought Cassell.-History:Full history of the group can be found on Orion Publishing Group is owned by -Imprints:...

    )
  • 2000 Jacqueline Wilson
    Jacqueline Wilson
    Dame Jacqueline Wilson, DBE, FRSL is an award-winning English author, known for her vast and diverse work in children's literature. Her novels have been adapted numerous times for television, and commonly deal with such challenging themes as adoption, divorce and mental illness...

    , The Illustrated Mum
    The Illustrated Mum
    The Illustrated Mum is an acclaimed children's novel by English author Jacqueline Wilson, with drawings by Nick Sharratt. The title is a reference to The Illustrated Man, a 1951 novel by Ray Bradbury....

    (Transworld
    Transworld (company)
    Transworld Publishers Inc. is a British publishing division of Random House and belongs to Bertelsmann, one of the world's largest media groups. It was established in 1950, and for many years it was the British division of Bantam Books. It publishes fiction and non fiction titles by various...

    )
  • 1999 Susan Price
    Susan Price
    Susan Price, born 1955 in Dudley in the West Midlands, is an award-winning English writer of novels for young adults. She also writes for younger children. She still lives in the Black Country.- Writing :...

    , The Sterkarm Handshake
    The Sterkarm Handshake
    The Sterkarm Handshake is a young adult science fiction novel by Susan Price which won the 1999 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. It deals with time travel between the 21st and 16th centuries and its effect on the Sterkarms, an ancient Scottish clan....

    (Scholastic)
  • 1998 Henrietta Branford
    Henrietta Branford
    Henrietta Branford born in India, she was a fiction writer who wrote many novels including Fire, Bed and Bone...

    , Fire, Bed and Bone (Walker
    Walker Books
    Walker Books is an independent British publisher of children's books, founded in 1978 by Sebastian Walker.The success of their Where's Wally? series enabled them to expand into the American market, starting a sister company called Candlewick Press in 1991.Amelia Edwards, co-founder of Walker Books,...

    )
  • 1997 Melvin Burgess
    Melvin Burgess
    Melvin Burgess is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of Junk, which was published in the shadow of the film of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, and dealt with the...

    , Junk
    Junk (novel)
    Junk is a 1996 Carnegie Medal and Guardian Award-winning novel by Melvin Burgess. The book is about the experiences of a group of teenagers who fall into heroin addiction and who embrace anarchism on the streets of Bristol, England...

    (Penguin
    Penguin Books
    Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...

    )
  • 1996 Joint winners:
    • Philip Pullman
      Philip Pullman
      Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, and his fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ...

      , Northern Lights
      Northern Lights (novel)
      Northern Lights, known as The Golden Compass in North America, is the first novel in English novelist Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy...

      (Scholastic; published in North America as The Golden Compass)
    • Alison Prince, The Sherwood Hero (Macmillan
      Macmillan Publishers
      Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:...

      )
  • 1995 Lesley Howarth, MapHead (Walker Books)
  • 1994 Sylvia Waugh
    Sylvia Waugh
    Sylvia Waugh is a British children's author.-Biography:Sylvia Waugh was born in Gateshead, County Durham in Northern England in 1935. She attended Gateshead Grammar School. Having worked full-time as a grammar teacher for seventeen years, Waugh began her writing career in her late fifties...

    , The Mennyms (Julia MacRae)
  • 1993 William Mayne
    William Mayne
    William James Carter Mayne was an English writer of children's fiction. He was born in Hull, the son of a doctor and was educated at the choir school attached to Canterbury Cathedral and his memories of that time contributed to his early books. During the Second World War the school was evacuated...

    , Low Tide (Cape
    Jonathan Cape
    Jonathan Cape was a London-based publisher founded in 1919 as "Page & Co" by Herbert Jonathan Cape , formerly a manager at Duckworth who had worked his way up from a position of bookshop errand boy. Cape brought with him the rights to cheap editions of the popular author Elinor Glyn and sales of...

    )
  • 1992 Joint Winners:
    • Rachel Anderson, Paper Faces
      Paper Faces
      Paper Faces are British electronic music producers Adam Blake and Stuart Price. They have remixed tracks for Zoot Woman as well as other established recording artists such as Madonna, Scissor Sisters, Armand Van Helden, Chromeo and Frankmusik.-Remixography:...

      (Oxford University Press
      Oxford University Press
      Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...

      )
    • Hilary McKay
      Hilary McKay
      Hilary McKay is a British children's author.-Biography:She was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, and is the eldest of four daughters. She studied English, Zoology and Botany at St Andrews University before becoming a public protection scientist. Her first novel,The Exiles, was written in 1991...

      , The Exiles (Gollancz
      Victor Gollancz Ltd
      Victor Gollancz Ltd was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century. It was founded in 1927 by Victor Gollancz and specialised in the publication of high quality literature, nonfiction and popular fiction, including science fiction. Upon Gollancz's death in 1967, ownership...

      )
  • 1991 Robert Westall
    Robert Westall
    Robert Atkinson Westall was the author of many books, mostly children's fiction, though also for adults, and non-fiction. Many of his novels, while supposedly aimed at a teenage audience, deal with many complex, dark and in many ways adult themes...

    , The Kingdom by the Sea
    The Kingdom by the Sea
    The Kingdom by the Sea is a written account of a three month long journey taken by novelist Paul Theroux round the United Kingdom in the summer of 1982. Starting his journey in London, he takes a train to Margate on the English coast. He then travels roughly clockwise round the British coastline,...

    (Methuen)
  • 1990 Anne Fine
    Anne Fine
    Anne Fine, OBE FRSL is a British author best known for her children's books, of which she has written more than 50. She also writes for adults...

    , Goggle-Eyes
    Goggle-Eyes
    Goggle-Eyes is a children's novel by Anne Fine, first published in 1989. The book won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. American editions are titled My War with Goggle-Eyes....

    (Hamish Hamilton
    Hamish Hamilton
    Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton . Confusingly, Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as Hamish Hamilton...

    )
  • 1989 Geraldine McCaughrean
    Geraldine McCaughrean
    Geraldine McCaughrean is a British children's novelist.The youngest of three children, McCaughrean studied teaching but did not like it, and found her true vocation in writing. She claims that what makes her love writing is the desire to escape from an unsatisfactory world...

    , A Pack of Lies
    A Pack of Lies
    A Pack of Lies is a children's novel with metafictional elements by Geraldine McCaughrean, first published in 1988. The novel includes a collection of ten short stories of widely varying type and setting...

    (Oxford University Press
    Oxford University Press
    Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...

    )
  • 1988 Ruth Thomas
    Ruth Thomas (children's writer)
    Ruth Thomas was a children's fiction author. Her debut book The Runaways won the 1988 Guardian Children's Fiction Award....

    , The Runaways
    The Runaways (book)
    The Runaways is a 1987 novel written by Ruth Thomas about two children, Julia Winter and Nathan Browne, who run away from their individual homes once their teachers and parents find out that they have money that does not belong to them....

    (Hutchinson
    Hutchinson (publisher)
    Hutchinson & Co. was an English book publisher, founded in 1887. The company merged with Century Publishing in 1985 to form Century Hutchinson, and was folded into the British Random House Group in 1989, where it remains as an imprint in the Cornerstone Publishing division...

    )
  • 1987 James Aldridge
    James Aldridge
    Harold Edward James Aldridge was a multi-award–winning Australian author and journalist whose World War II despatches were published worldwide and formed the basis of several of his novels, including the prize-winning The Sea Eagle about Australian troops in Crete.Aldridge was born in White Hills,...

    , The True Story of Spit MacPhee (Viking Kestrel)
  • 1986 Ann Pilling, Henry's Leg (Viking Kestrel)
  • 1985 Ted Hughes
    Ted Hughes
    Edward James Hughes OM , more commonly known as Ted Hughes, was an English poet and children's writer. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath, from 1956 until...

    , What is the Truth (Faber
    Faber and Faber
    Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music...

    )
  • 1984 Dick King-Smith
    Dick King-Smith
    Ronald Gordon King-Smith OBE, Hon.M.Ed. , better known by his pen name Dick King-Smith, was a prolific English children's author, best known for writing The Sheep-Pig, retitled in the United States as Babe the Gallant Pig, on which the movie Babe was based...

    , The Sheep-Pig
    The Sheep-Pig
    The Sheep-Pig is a novel by British author Dick King-Smith. It was first published in 1983, retitled Babe The Gallant Pig in the U.S., and adapted for the screen as the 1995 film Babe. The book is set in rural England, where Dick King-Smith spent twenty years as a farmer. The book won the Guardian...

    (Gollancz
    Victor Gollancz Ltd
    Victor Gollancz Ltd was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century. It was founded in 1927 by Victor Gollancz and specialised in the publication of high quality literature, nonfiction and popular fiction, including science fiction. Upon Gollancz's death in 1967, ownership...

    ) (this book served as the basis for the movie Babe
    Babe (film)
    Babe is a 1995 Australian-American film directed by Chris Noonan. It is an adaptation of the 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the United States, by Dick King-Smith and tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheepdog...

    )
  • 1983 Anita Desai
    Anita Desai
    Anita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

    , Village by the Sea (Heinemann)
  • 1982 Michelle Magorian
    Michelle Magorian
    Michelle Magorian is an English author of children's books, including Goodnight Mister Tom, Back Home and A Little Love Song.- Biography :...

    , Goodnight Mr Tom (Kestrel)
  • 1981 Peter Carter
    Peter Carter (author)
    Peter Carter was a British writer of children's books who won several awards: the Guardian Award, the Young Observer Fiction Award, twice, and the German Preis der Leseratten...

    , The Sentinels (Oxford University Press
    Oxford University Press
    Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...

    )
  • 1980 Ann Schlee
    Ann Schlee
    - Childhood and education :As a children, she was brought up in the USA by her mother and grandparents until the end of the Second World War. After WWII, she lived in Cairo, Egypt, with her parents. They later moved to Sudan and Eritrea...

    , The Vandal (Macmillan
    Macmillan Publishers
    Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:...

    )
  • 1979 Andrew Davies
    Andrew Davies (writer)
    Andrew Wynford Davies is a British author and screenwriter. He was made a Fellow of BAFTA in 2002.-Education and early career:...

    , Conrad's War (Blackie
    Blackie and Son Limited
    Blackie and Son Limited was a publishing house in Glasgow, Scotland and in London, England, from 1890 to 1991.The firm was founded in 1809 by John Blackie, snr. as a partnership with two others and was originally known as 'Blackie, Fullerton and Company'. It began printing in 1819 and was renamed...

    )
  • 1978 Diana Wynne Jones
    Diana Wynne Jones
    Diana Wynne Jones was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction...

    , Charmed Life
    Charmed Life (novel)
    Charmed Life is a 1977 novel by British children's author Diana Wynne Jones. It was the first book in the Chrestomanci series of novels to be published. The series name comes from the way the plots involve a series of powerful nine-lived enchanters who carry the title Chrestomanci...

    (Macmillan
    Macmillan Publishers
    Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:...

    )
  • 1977 Peter Dickinson
    Peter Dickinson
    Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE is an English author and poet who has written a wide variety of books, notably children's books and detective stories, over a long and distinguished career.-Life and work:...

    , The Blue Hawk (Gollancz
    Victor Gollancz Ltd
    Victor Gollancz Ltd was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century. It was founded in 1927 by Victor Gollancz and specialised in the publication of high quality literature, nonfiction and popular fiction, including science fiction. Upon Gollancz's death in 1967, ownership...

    )
  • 1976 Nina Bawden
    Nina Bawden
    Nina Bawden CBE is a popular British novelist and children's writer. Her mother was a teacher and her father a marine.-Life:...

    , The Peppermint Pig (Gollancz
    Victor Gollancz Ltd
    Victor Gollancz Ltd was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century. It was founded in 1927 by Victor Gollancz and specialised in the publication of high quality literature, nonfiction and popular fiction, including science fiction. Upon Gollancz's death in 1967, ownership...

    )
  • 1975 Winifred Cawley
    Winifred Cawley
    Winifred Cawley was an English author of Children's literature.Born to a family of humble circumstances in Felton, Northumberland, she won a scholarship to study English literature at the Newcastle University. She completed a Diploma of Education at University College London in 1937...

    , Gran at Coalgate (Oxford University Press
    Oxford University Press
    Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...

    )
  • 1974 Barbara Willard
    Barbara Willard
    Barbara Mary Willard, a British historical/children's author, was born in Brighton, Sussex in 1909, the daughter of the Shakespearean actor Edmund Willard and the great-niece of Victorian era actor Edward Smith Willard....

    , The Iron Lily (Longman Young Books)
  • 1973 Richard Adams, Watership Down
    Watership Down
    Watership Down is a classic heroic fantasy novel, written by English author Richard Adams, about a small group of rabbits. Although the animals in the story live in their natural environment, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language , proverbs, poetry, and mythology...

    (Rex Collings)
  • 1972 Gillian Avery
    Gillian Avery
    Gillian Avery is a British children’s novelist and literary historian.She was born in Reigate on 30 September 1926 and attended Dunottar School there. She worked first as a journalist on the Surrey Mirror, then for Chambers Encyclopedia and Oxford University Press. In 1952 she married the...

    , A Likely Lad (Collins
    HarperCollins
    HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...

    )
  • 1971 John Christopher, The Guardians
    The Guardians (novel)
    The Guardians is a young adult science fiction novel written by John Christopher, originally published in 1970.Set in the year 2052, the novel depicts a future, authoritarian England divided into two distinct societies: the modern, overpopulated "Conurbs" and the aristocratic, rarefied "County";...

    (Hamilton
    Hamish Hamilton
    Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton . Confusingly, Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as Hamish Hamilton...

    )
  • 1970 K. M. Peyton
    K. M. Peyton
    Kathleen Wendy Herald Peyton, who writes as K.M. Peyton is a British author.Born in Birmingham, Peyton has written more than fifty novels, including the much loved Flambards and its sequels for which she won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award...

    , Flambards
    Flambards
    Flambards is a novel by the English author K. M. Peyton.The book and its three sequels are set just before, during, and after World War I...

    (Oxford University Press
    Oxford University Press
    Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...

    )
  • 1969 Joan Aiken
    Joan Aiken
    Joan Delano Aiken MBE was an English novelist. She was born in Rye, East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father, American poet Conrad Aiken , her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge and her brother John Aiken Joan Delano Aiken MBE (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English novelist....

    , The Whispering Mountain (Cape
    Jonathan Cape
    Jonathan Cape was a London-based publisher founded in 1919 as "Page & Co" by Herbert Jonathan Cape , formerly a manager at Duckworth who had worked his way up from a position of bookshop errand boy. Cape brought with him the rights to cheap editions of the popular author Elinor Glyn and sales of...

    )
  • 1968 Alan Garner
    Alan Garner
    With his first book published, Garner abandoned his work as a labourer and gained a job as a freelance television reporter, living a "hand to mouth" lifestyle on a "shoestring" budget...

    , The Owl Service
    The Owl Service
    The Owl Service is a novel by Alan Garner first published in 1967. It is a contemporary interpretation, which Garner described as an "expression of the myth", of the story of the mythical Welsh figure of Blodeuwedd, whose story is told in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi.The legend concerns a...

    (Collins
    HarperCollins
    HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...

    )
  • 1967 Leon Garfield
    Leon Garfield
    Leon Garfield was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for his historical novels for children, though he also wrote for adults...

    , Devil-in-the-Fog (Constable
    Constable
    A constable is a person holding a particular office, most commonly in law enforcement. The office of constable can vary significantly in different jurisdictions.-Etymology:...

    )

Shortlisted books

2011
  • David Almond
    David Almond
    David Almond is a British children's writer who has written several novels, each one to critical acclaim.-Early life:Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia, he was born in 1951...

    , My Name Is Mina
  • Simon Mason
    Simon Mason (author)
    -Biography:Simon Mason was born in Sheffield in 1962. He was educated at local schools and studied English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He splits his time between writing at home and a part-time editorial position with David Fickling Books, an imprint of Random House and publisher of his 2011...

    , Moon Pie
  • Frances Hardinge
    Frances Hardinge
    Frances Hardinge is a British author best known for her novel Fly By Night which in 2006 won the Branford Boase Award and was listed as one of the School Library Journal's Best Books. She has also been shortlisted and achieved a number of other awards for both her novels as well as some of her...

    , Twilight Robbery

2010
2009
  • Siobhan Dowd
    Siobhan Dowd
    Siobhan Dowd was a British writer and activist.-Biography:Siobhan Dowd was born in London to Irish parents...

    , Solace of the Road
  • Morris Gleitzman
    Morris Gleitzman
    Morris Gleitzman is an English-born Australian writer. He is one of Australia's most successful writers.Morris Gleitzman has also gained recognition for sparking an interest in politically-controversial children's books like Two Weeks with the Queen.He has collaborated on children's series with...

    , Then
  • Mal Peet
    Mal Peet
    Mal Peet is an English author who writes mainly for young adults. His novels have won several awards, including the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.- Biography :...

    , Exposure
    Exposure (novel)
    Exposure is a sports novel for young adults by Mal Peet, published on 6 October 2008 by Walker Books Ltd. Inspired by William Shakespeare's Othello, the plot of the story follows Otello, a black football player and his high-profile relationship with Desmerelda, a white celebrity...

  • Terry Pratchett
    Terry Pratchett
    Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...

    , Nation
    Nation (novel)
    Nation is a Terry Pratchett novel, published in the UK on September 11, 2008. It is the first non-Discworld Pratchett novel since Johnny and the Bomb . Nation is in an alternate history of our world in the 1860s. The book received recognition as a Michael L...

  • 2008
    Frank Cottrell Boyce
    Frank Cottrell Boyce
    -Awards:*2004: Buch des Monats des Instituts für Jugendliteratur/Book of the Month by the Institute for Youth Literature , Millions*2004: Carnegie Medal, Millions*2004: Luchs des Jahres , Millions...

    , Cosmic (Macmillan)
    Siobhan Dowd
    Siobhan Dowd
    Siobhan Dowd was a British writer and activist.-Biography:Siobhan Dowd was born in London to Irish parents...

    , Bog Child
    Bog Child
    Bog Child is a historical novel by Siobhan Dowd. The book was released by David Fickling Books on September 9, 2008. It was listed as one of Amazon's Best Book of the Year for 2008 and one of Publishers Weekly's Best Book of the Year for the children's fiction category in 2008. It also won the 2009...

    (David Fickling Books)
    Jenny Downham
    Jenny Downham
    Jenny Downham is a British novelist and an ex-actor. She has published two books, Before I Die, the fictional account of the last few months of a sixteen-year-old girl who has been dying of leukeamia for four years...

    , Before I Die
    Before I Die
    Before I Die is a novel written by Jenny Downham. Tessa Scott is only 16, and she has just months left to live before she finally loses her battle with cancer. However, she has made a list of 10 things she wants to do before she dies, some which are dangerous and foolish, and others which will...

    (Definitions)
    Patrick Ness
    Patrick Ness
    Patrick Ness is an American author, journalist and lecturer who lives in London. He holds both American and British citizenship...

    , The Knife of Never Letting Go
    The Knife of Never Letting Go
    The Knife of Never Letting Go is the first installment in the Chaos Walking Trilogy written by Patrick Ness and published on May 5, 2008. It has won numerous awards, including the Booktrust Teenage Prize, the Guardian Award, and the 2008 James Tiptree, Jr...

    (Walker)
  • 2007
    Mary Hoffman
    Mary Hoffman
    Mary Hoffman is a best-selling British author and critic, born in 1945.- Background :Mary Hoffman won a scholarship to James Allen’s Girls’ School in Dulwich, which she describes as “an exercise in punctuation in itself.” From there she went to the University of Cambridge to study English at...

    , The Falconer's Knot (Bloomsbury)
    Sally Prue
    Sally Prue
    Sally Prue is a British author known for her novel Cold Tom, which won the Branford Boase Award 2002 and the Smarties Prize Silver Award in 2002. Sally Prue has written eight novels.- Biography :...

    , The Truth Sayer (Oxford)
    Andy Stanton
    Andy Stanton
    Andy Stanton is an English children's writer. He lives in North London.-Books:He has written nine books in the 'Mr. Gum' series:*You're a Bad Man, Mr. Gum!*Mr. Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire*Mr Gum in 'The Hound of Lamonic Bibber...

    , Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire (Egmont
    Egmont Publishing
    The Egmont Group is a media corporation founded and rooted in Copenhagen, Denmark. The business area of Egmont has traditionally been magazine publishing but has over the years evolved to comprise media generally....

    )
    Jenny Valentine
    Jenny Valentine
    Jenny Valentine is a British children's novelist, best known for her award-winning novel Finding Violet Park.-Book history:Her first novel, Finding Violet Park, was published in 2007. It won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. The book's success caused...

    , Finding Violet Park
    Finding Violet Park
    Finding Violet Park is a young adult novel by Jenny Valentine, first published in 2007. It is about a fatherless teenage boy, Lucas Swain, who finds an urn containing the ashes of the titular Violet Park abandoned in a minicab office and determines to lay her to rest...

    (HarperCollins
    HarperCollins
    HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...

    )
  • 2006
    Frank Cottrell Boyce
    Frank Cottrell Boyce
    -Awards:*2004: Buch des Monats des Instituts für Jugendliteratur/Book of the Month by the Institute for Youth Literature , Millions*2004: Carnegie Medal, Millions*2004: Luchs des Jahres , Millions...

    , Framed (Macmillan
    Macmillan Publishers
    Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:...

    )
    Patrick Cave
    Patrick Cave
    Patrick Cave is a British novelist.- Biography :Patrick Cave was born in Bath, England. He has tried his hand at lots of jobs and lived all over the place, from Athens to Peckham, mostly teaching English. He attended boarding school for seven years, during which he developed a love of music and of...

    , Blown Away (Simon and Schuster)
    Frances Hardinge
    Frances Hardinge
    Frances Hardinge is a British author best known for her novel Fly By Night which in 2006 won the Branford Boase Award and was listed as one of the School Library Journal's Best Books. She has also been shortlisted and achieved a number of other awards for both her novels as well as some of her...

    , Fly by Night
    Fly by Night (Hardinge novel)
    Fly by Night is a children's fantasy novel by Frances Hardinge, published on October 7, 2005 by Macmillan Publishers in the UK and on April 25, 2006 by HarperCollins in the US, and aimed at teens...

    (Macmillan
    Macmillan Publishers
    Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:...

    )
    Philip Reeve
    Philip Reeve
    Philip Reeve is a British author and illustrator. He presently lives on Dartmoor with his wife Sarah and their son Samuel.-Biography:...

    , A Darkling Plain
    A Darkling Plain
    A Darkling Plain is the fourth and final novel in the Mortal Engines Quartet series written by author Philip Reeve.The novel won the 2006 Guardian Award and the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction.-Setting:...

    (Scholastic)
  • 2005
    Julie Hearn, The Merrybegot
    Alex Shearer
    Alex Shearer
    Alex Shearer is a British novelist.Shearer was recognized as a television scenario writer at age 29 after having produced over 30 works. He was active as a writer for television, movies, theatre, and radio for 14 years, and then devoted himself to becoming a novelist.His maiden work was The...

    , The Hunted
    The Hunted (novel)
    The Hunted is a crime novel written by Elmore Leonard. It was first published in 1977 and was initially named 'Hat Trick'.-Plot summary:...


    Tim Wynne-Jones
    Tim Wynne-Jones
    Tim Wynne-Jones is an English–Canadian author of children's literature, including picture books and novels for children and young adults, novels for adults, radio dramas, songs for the CBC/Jim Henson production Fraggle Rock, as well as a children's musical and an opera libretto.-Biography:Born...

    , The Boy in the Burning House
  • 2004
    Frank Cottrell Boyce
    Frank Cottrell Boyce
    -Awards:*2004: Buch des Monats des Instituts für Jugendliteratur/Book of the Month by the Institute for Youth Literature , Millions*2004: Carnegie Medal, Millions*2004: Luchs des Jahres , Millions...

    , Millions
    Millions (novel)
    Millions is a children's novel by Frank Cottrell Boyce, published in 2004. It was originally written solely as a screenplay for the film Millions, but screenwriter Cottrell Boyce decided to adapt it into a novel while the film was in the process of being made. It was his first novel...


    Ann Turnbull
    Ann Turnbull
    Ann Turnbull is a British writer of fiction for children and young adults. Her work includes picture books as well as novels. Many of her novels are set in Shropshire, the English county where she lives...

    , No Shame, No Fear
    No Shame, No Fear
    No Shame, No Fear is a 2003 novel for young adults by Ann Turnbull. Set in Shropshire in the 1660s, the novel depicts the love between a Quaker girl, Susanna, and Will, the son of a rich merchant...


    Leslie Wilson (author)
    Leslie Wilson (author)
    Leslie Wilson is an author of novels and short stories for adults and children. She was born in Nottingham to a German mother and an English father. Her mixed-heritage upbringing in England in the years following the Second World War is a major influence on her writing. Her hobbies are gardening,...

    , Last Train from Kummersdorf
  • 2003
    Kevin Brooks
    Kevin Brooks (writer)
    Kevin M. Brooks is an English author best known for his novels Lucas and Martyn Pig .- Johnny Delgado Series:...

    , Lucas
    Lucas (novel)
    Lucas is a 2002 novel by Kevin Brooks about a teenager named Cait who lives on an isolated island off the coast of England and befriends outsider Lucas, eventually falling in love with him only to see the island's prejudices come to life.-Plot summary:...


    Alex Shearer
    Alex Shearer
    Alex Shearer is a British novelist.Shearer was recognized as a television scenario writer at age 29 after having produced over 30 works. He was active as a writer for television, movies, theatre, and radio for 14 years, and then devoted himself to becoming a novelist.His maiden work was The...

    , The Speed of the Dark
    David Almond
    David Almond
    David Almond is a British children's writer who has written several novels, each one to critical acclaim.-Early life:Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia, he was born in 1951...

    , The Fire Eaters
  • 2002
    Keith Gray, Warehouse
    Warehouse
    A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of cities and towns. They usually have loading docks to load and unload...


    Elizabeth Laird
    Elizabeth Laird
    Elizabeth Laird is an author of many books for children, including picture books and books for older children. Her novels include Red Sky in the Morning, Secrets of the Fearless and Kiss the Dust.-Biography:...

    , Jake's Tower
    Jake's Tower
    Jake's Tower is a young adult novel written by Elizabeth Laird. It was first published in 2001. The book was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Children's Book Award.-Plot summary:...


    Linda Newbery
    Linda Newbery
    Linda Newbery is a British author, who began writing as a young adult author but has now broadened her range to encompass all ages. Now a full-time writer, she published her first novel Run with the Hare in 1988, while still working as an English teacher in a comprehensive school.Linda is a regular...

    , The Shell House
    The Shell House
    The Shell House is a historic home located at Glen Cove in Nassau County, New York. It was built as a guest cottage and home of the yacht captain on the Matinecock Point Estate of J. P. Morgan, Jr. . The house is composed of a small, Norman style core dated to the mid-19th century, with a large...


    Terry Pratchett
    Terry Pratchett
    Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...

    , The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
    The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
    The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents is the 28th novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, published in 2001. It was the first Discworld book to be aimed at the younger market; this was followed by The Wee Free Men in 2003...


    Marcus Sedgwick
    Marcus Sedgwick
    Marcus Sedgwick was born in Kent, England. Marcus is a British author and illustrator as well as a musician. He used to play for two bands namely playing the drums for Garrett and as the guitarist in an ABBA tribute group...

    , The Dark Horse
  • 2001
    Allan Ahlberg, My Brother's Ghost
    Celia Rees
    Celia Rees
    Celia Rees is an English author of children's literature, including some horror and fantasy books.She was born in 1949in Solihull, West Midlands but now lives in Leamington Spa with her husband and teenage daughter. Rees attended University of Warwick and earned a degree in History of Politics...

    , Witch Child
    Karen Wallace, Raspberries on the Yangtze
  • 2000
    David Almond
    David Almond
    David Almond is a British children's writer who has written several novels, each one to critical acclaim.-Early life:Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia, he was born in 1951...

    , Kit's Wilderness
    Kit's Wilderness
    Kit's Wilderness is David Almond's second novel, published in 2000 by Delacorte Press. It won the 2001 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, the Smarties Award Silver Medal, was Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal, and was shortlisted for the Guardian Award.The...


    Bernard Ashley
    Bernard Ashley (author)
    Bernard Ashley is a British author of children's books. Among his best-known works are The Trouble with Donovan Croft and A Kind of Wild Justice...

    , Little Soldier
    Susan Cooper
    Susan Cooper
    Susan Mary Cooper is an English author best known for The Dark Is Rising, an award-winning five-volume saga set in and around England and Wales. The books incorporate traditional British mythology, such as Arthurian and other Welsh elements with original material ; these books were adapted into a...

    , King of Shadows
    King of Shadows
    King of Shadows is a children's novel by Susan Cooper published in 1999 by Penguin. The book was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.Only in the world of the stage can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life...


    Jan Mark
    Jan Mark
    Jan Mark was a British author, best known as a writer for children. She was christened Janet Marjorie Brisland in Welwyn Garden City in 1943 and was raised and educated in Kent. She was a secondary school teacher between 1965 and 1971, and became a full-time writer in 1974. She wrote over fifty...

    , The Eclipse of the Century
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. The book was published on 8 July 1999. The novel won the 1999 Whitbread Book Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and was short-listed for other...

  • 1998
    Jamila Gavin
    Jamila Gavin
    Jamila Gavin is a British writer born in Mussoorie, India in the foothills of the Himalayas.Her father was Indian and her mother English...

    , The Track of the Wind (Mammoth)
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling and featuring Harry Potter, a young wizard...

    (Bloomsbury Publishing)
    Jane Stemp, Secret Songs (Hodder Children's Books)
  • 1996
    Beverley Naidoo
    Beverley Naidoo
    Beverley Naidoo is a popular South African children's author who has written a number of award-winning novels, mainly about life in South Africa, where she spent her childhood. She graduated from the University of York with a BA in Education in 1968....

    , No Turning Back
  • 1994
    Jamila Gavin
    Jamila Gavin
    Jamila Gavin is a British writer born in Mussoorie, India in the foothills of the Himalayas.Her father was Indian and her mother English...

    , The Eye of the Horse
  • 1992
    Jamila Gavin
    Jamila Gavin
    Jamila Gavin is a British writer born in Mussoorie, India in the foothills of the Himalayas.Her father was Indian and her mother English...

    , The Wheel of Surya - Special runner-up
  • 1990
    Gillian Cross
    Gillian Cross
    Gillian Cross is a children's author. She won the 1990 Carnegie Medal for her book Wolf and the 1992 Whitbread Children's Book Award for her novel The Great Elephant Chase....

    , Wolf
  • 1987
    Anne Fine
    Anne Fine
    Anne Fine, OBE FRSL is a British author best known for her children's books, of which she has written more than 50. She also writes for adults...

    , Madame Doubtfire
    Madame Doubtfire
    Madame Doubtfire, known as Alias Madame Doubtfire in the United States, is a 1987 novel for young adults, about a family with divorced parents. It was adapted into the film Mrs...

    (Puffin
    Puffin Books
    Puffin Books is the children's imprint of British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s it has been the largest publisher of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world.-Early history:...

    )
  • 1984
    Anne Fine
    Anne Fine
    Anne Fine, OBE FRSL is a British author best known for her children's books, of which she has written more than 50. She also writes for adults...

    , The Granny Project (Puffin
    Puffin Books
    Puffin Books is the children's imprint of British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s it has been the largest publisher of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world.-Early history:...

    )
  • 1983
    Gillian Cross
    Gillian Cross
    Gillian Cross is a children's author. She won the 1990 Carnegie Medal for her book Wolf and the 1992 Whitbread Children's Book Award for her novel The Great Elephant Chase....

    , The Dark Behind the Curtain
  • 1980
    Gillian Cross
    Gillian Cross
    Gillian Cross is a children's author. She won the 1990 Carnegie Medal for her book Wolf and the 1992 Whitbread Children's Book Award for her novel The Great Elephant Chase....

    , The Iron Way
  • 1975
    Anne Fine
    Anne Fine
    Anne Fine, OBE FRSL is a British author best known for her children's books, of which she has written more than 50. She also writes for adults...

    , The Summer House Loon (Puffin
    Puffin Books
    Puffin Books is the children's imprint of British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s it has been the largest publisher of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world.-Early history:...

    )

1969 the pool of fire

Longlisted books

  • 2008
    Frank Cottrell Boyce
    Frank Cottrell Boyce
    -Awards:*2004: Buch des Monats des Instituts für Jugendliteratur/Book of the Month by the Institute for Youth Literature , Millions*2004: Carnegie Medal, Millions*2004: Luchs des Jahres , Millions...

    , Cosmic (Macmillan)
    Tanya Landman, The Goldsmith's Daughter (Walker)
    Rhiannon Lassiter
    Rhiannon Lassiter
    Rhiannon Lassiter is a children's books author.-Biography:Rhiannon Lassiter was born on the 9th of February in 1977 in London to children's books author, Mary Hoffman and Stephen Barber....

    , Bad Blood (Oxford)
    Siobhan Dowd
    Siobhan Dowd
    Siobhan Dowd was a British writer and activist.-Biography:Siobhan Dowd was born in London to Irish parents...

    , Bog Child
    Bog Child
    Bog Child is a historical novel by Siobhan Dowd. The book was released by David Fickling Books on September 9, 2008. It was listed as one of Amazon's Best Book of the Year for 2008 and one of Publishers Weekly's Best Book of the Year for the children's fiction category in 2008. It also won the 2009...

    (David Fickling Books)
    Jenny Downham
    Jenny Downham
    Jenny Downham is a British novelist and an ex-actor. She has published two books, Before I Die, the fictional account of the last few months of a sixteen-year-old girl who has been dying of leukeamia for four years...

    , Before I Die
    Before I Die
    Before I Die is a novel written by Jenny Downham. Tessa Scott is only 16, and she has just months left to live before she finally loses her battle with cancer. However, she has made a list of 10 things she wants to do before she dies, some which are dangerous and foolish, and others which will...

    (Definitions)
    Patrick Ness
    Patrick Ness
    Patrick Ness is an American author, journalist and lecturer who lives in London. He holds both American and British citizenship...

    , The Knife of Never Letting Go
    The Knife of Never Letting Go
    The Knife of Never Letting Go is the first installment in the Chaos Walking Trilogy written by Patrick Ness and published on May 5, 2008. It has won numerous awards, including the Booktrust Teenage Prize, the Guardian Award, and the 2008 James Tiptree, Jr...

    (Walker)
    Anthony McGowan
    Anthony McGowan
    Anthony McGowan is a British author of novels for adults and children.- Biography :Anthony McGowan was born in Manchester and now lives in London with his wife, author and fashion designer Rebecca Campbell, and their two young children...

    , The Knife that Killed Me
    The Knife That Killed Me
    The Knife That Killed Me is a young adult novel by Anthony McGowan, published in 2008. It has been shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize, longlisted for the Guardian Award and longlisted for the Manchester Book Award.- Plot summary :...

    (Definitions)
  • 2007
    Allan Ahlberg, The Boyhood of Burglar Bill (Puffin)
    Charlie Fletcher
    Charlie Fletcher
    Charlie Fletcher is a British screenwriter and author.After many years writing for film and television, he is now probably best known for his children's novel, Stoneheart.-Biography:...

    , Stoneheart
    Stoneheart
    Stoneheart is a children's novel by Charlie Fletcher, published in 2006. It is part of the Stoneheart Trilogy. Stoneheart is followed by "Ironhand", which is itself followed by "Silver Tongue"...

    (Hodder)
    Mary Hoffman
    Mary Hoffman
    Mary Hoffman is a best-selling British author and critic, born in 1945.- Background :Mary Hoffman won a scholarship to James Allen’s Girls’ School in Dulwich, which she describes as “an exercise in punctuation in itself.” From there she went to the University of Cambridge to study English at...

    , The Falconer's Knot (Bloomsbury)
    Tim Lott
    Tim Lott
    Tim Lott is a British author. After running his own magazine publishing business, he graduated from the London School of Economics in 1986....

    , Fearless
    Fearless (Lott novel)
    Fearless is a novel by the British author Tim Lott, first published in 2007. It is a dark fable/fairy tale.-Plot:Little Fearless lives in the City Community Faith School, also known as the Institute, where girls are forced to work under the rule of the Controller...

    (Walker)
    Mal Peet
    Mal Peet
    Mal Peet is an English author who writes mainly for young adults. His novels have won several awards, including the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.- Biography :...

    , The Penalty
    The Penalty (novel)
    The Penalty is a fictional sports novel for children by Mal Peet, published on October 2, 2006 by Walker Books Ltd. The plotline is centered around El Brujito , a teenage football prodigy who disappears without a trace. Paul Faustino, one of South America's top sports journalist is drawn to the...

    (Walker)
    Sally Prue
    Sally Prue
    Sally Prue is a British author known for her novel Cold Tom, which won the Branford Boase Award 2002 and the Smarties Prize Silver Award in 2002. Sally Prue has written eight novels.- Biography :...

    , The Truth Sayer (Oxford)
    Andy Stanton
    Andy Stanton
    Andy Stanton is an English children's writer. He lives in North London.-Books:He has written nine books in the 'Mr. Gum' series:*You're a Bad Man, Mr. Gum!*Mr. Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire*Mr Gum in 'The Hound of Lamonic Bibber...

    , Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire (Egmont
    Egmont Publishing
    The Egmont Group is a media corporation founded and rooted in Copenhagen, Denmark. The business area of Egmont has traditionally been magazine publishing but has over the years evolved to comprise media generally....

    )
    Jenny Valentine
    Jenny Valentine
    Jenny Valentine is a British children's novelist, best known for her award-winning novel Finding Violet Park.-Book history:Her first novel, Finding Violet Park, was published in 2007. It won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. The book's success caused...

    , Finding Violet Park
    Finding Violet Park
    Finding Violet Park is a young adult novel by Jenny Valentine, first published in 2007. It is about a fatherless teenage boy, Lucas Swain, who finds an urn containing the ashes of the titular Violet Park abandoned in a minicab office and determines to lay her to rest...

    (HarperCollins
    HarperCollins
    HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...

    )
  • 2006
    David Almond
    David Almond
    David Almond is a British children's writer who has written several novels, each one to critical acclaim.-Early life:Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia, he was born in 1951...

    , Clay
    Clay (novel)
    Clay is a children's/young adult novel by David Almond, published in 2005. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.It was adapted for television in 2008, and aired on BBC One on March 30 2008....

    (Hodder)
    Frank Cottrell Boyce
    Frank Cottrell Boyce
    -Awards:*2004: Buch des Monats des Instituts für Jugendliteratur/Book of the Month by the Institute for Youth Literature , Millions*2004: Carnegie Medal, Millions*2004: Luchs des Jahres , Millions...

    , Framed (Macmillan
    Macmillan Publishers
    Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:...

    )
    Patrick Cave
    Patrick Cave
    Patrick Cave is a British novelist.- Biography :Patrick Cave was born in Bath, England. He has tried his hand at lots of jobs and lived all over the place, from Athens to Peckham, mostly teaching English. He attended boarding school for seven years, during which he developed a love of music and of...

    , Blown Away (Simon and Schuster)
    Siobhan Dowd
    Siobhan Dowd
    Siobhan Dowd was a British writer and activist.-Biography:Siobhan Dowd was born in London to Irish parents...

    , A Swift Pure Cry
    A Swift Pure Cry
    A Swift Pure Cry is a 2006 novel by Siobhan Dowd about a teenager named Shell who lives in County Cork, Ireland. It won the 2007 Branford Boase Award and the Eilís Dillon Award.-Characters:...

    (Doubleday)
    Frances Hardinge
    Frances Hardinge
    Frances Hardinge is a British author best known for her novel Fly By Night which in 2006 won the Branford Boase Award and was listed as one of the School Library Journal's Best Books. She has also been shortlisted and achieved a number of other awards for both her novels as well as some of her...

    , Fly by Night
    Fly by Night (Hardinge novel)
    Fly by Night is a children's fantasy novel by Frances Hardinge, published on October 7, 2005 by Macmillan Publishers in the UK and on April 25, 2006 by HarperCollins in the US, and aimed at teens...

    (Macmillan
    Macmillan Publishers
    Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:...

    )
    Jill Murphy
    Jill Murphy
    Jill Murphy is a London-born English children's author, best known for The Worst Witch series and the Large Family picture books...

    , The Worst Witch Saves the Day
    The Worst Witch Saves the Day
    The Worst Witch Saves the Day is the fifth novel in The Worst Witch children's boom series by Jill Murphy. The book was published in 2005 and features Agatha Cackle disguised as new teacher, Miss Granite.- Plot :...

    (Penguin
    Penguin Books
    Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...

    )
    Philip Reeve
    Philip Reeve
    Philip Reeve is a British author and illustrator. He presently lives on Dartmoor with his wife Sarah and their son Samuel.-Biography:...

    , A Darkling Plain
    A Darkling Plain
    A Darkling Plain is the fourth and final novel in the Mortal Engines Quartet series written by author Philip Reeve.The novel won the 2006 Guardian Award and the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction.-Setting:...

    (Scholastic)
    Tim Wynne-Jones
    Tim Wynne-Jones
    Tim Wynne-Jones is an English–Canadian author of children's literature, including picture books and novels for children and young adults, novels for adults, radio dramas, songs for the CBC/Jim Henson production Fraggle Rock, as well as a children's musical and an opera libretto.-Biography:Born...

    , The Survival Game (Usborne)
  • 2005
    Kevin Brooks
    Kevin Brooks (writer)
    Kevin M. Brooks is an English author best known for his novels Lucas and Martyn Pig .- Johnny Delgado Series:...

    , Candy
    Candy (Kevin Brooks novel)
    Candy is a 2005 young adult novel by Kevin Brooks about a doomed teenage love affair between a musician and a prostitute.-Plot summary:The story opens when Joe from a single parent family, a music lover and with a knack for curiosity - meets 16-year-old Candy on the streets of London...

    (Chicken House)
    Michelle Paver
    Michelle Paver
    Michelle Paver is a British-based novelist and children's writer, author of the six-book series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, set in the pre-agricultural Stone Age.- Biography :...

    , Wolf Brother
    Wolf Brother
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    (Orion
    Orion Publishing Group
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    Philippa Pearce
    Philippa Pearce
    Ann Philippa Pearce OBE was an English children's author.-Early life:The youngest of four children, Pearce was brought up in the Mill House in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire...

    , The Little Gentleman (Puffin
    Puffin Books
    Puffin Books is the children's imprint of British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s it has been the largest publisher of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world.-Early history:...

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    Christopher Russell, Brind and the Dogs of War (Puffin
    Puffin Books
    Puffin Books is the children's imprint of British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s it has been the largest publisher of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world.-Early history:...

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  • 2004
    Patricia Elliott
    Patricia Elliott
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    , Murkmere (Hodder)
    Michael Morpurgo
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    , Private Peaceful
    Private Peaceful
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    (Collins
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    Kevin Brooks
    Kevin Brooks (writer)
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    , Kissing the Rain (Chicken House)
    Jan Mark
    Jan Mark
    Jan Mark was a British author, best known as a writer for children. She was christened Janet Marjorie Brisland in Welwyn Garden City in 1943 and was raised and educated in Kent. She was a secondary school teacher between 1965 and 1971, and became a full-time writer in 1974. She wrote over fifty...

    , Useful Idiots (David Fickling)
  • 2003
    Jean Ure
    Jean Ure
    -Background:Jean Ure was born and brought up in a suburb of London and attended school in Croydon. She wrote her first book when she was six years old and had her first book, Dance For Two published when she was sixteen. Having decided to make a career as a writer, she ran away from school and...

    , Bad Alice
    Marcus Sedgwick
    Marcus Sedgwick
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    , The Book of Dead Days
    The Book of Dead Days
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    Simon French, Where in the World
    Where In The World
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  • 2002
    Bernard Ashley
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    , Revenge House (Orchard)
    Julie Bertagna
    Julie Bertagna
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    , Exodus
    Exodus (2002 novel)
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    (Macmillan)
    Susan Cooper
    Susan Cooper
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    , Green Boy (Bodley Head)
  • 2001
    Adèle Geras
    Adèle Geras
    Adèle Geras Adèle Geras Adèle Geras (born 1944, Jerusalem, is an English writer for young children, teens and adults. She has written more than 74 books, that have either been published or are in waiting...

    , Troy
    Troy (novel)
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    (Fickling/Scholastic)
    Gaye Hiçyilmaz, Girl in Red (Orion)
    Eva Ibbotson
    Eva Ibbotson
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    , Journey to the River Sea
    Journey to the River Sea
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    (Macmillan)
    Margaret Mahy
    Margaret Mahy
    Margaret Mahy ONZ is a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. While the plots of many of her books have strong supernatural elements, her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up.Her books The Haunting and The Changeover: A Supernatural...

    , 24 Hours
    24 Hours (novel)
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    (Collins)
    Jan Mark
    Jan Mark
    Jan Mark was a British author, best known as a writer for children. She was christened Janet Marjorie Brisland in Welwyn Garden City in 1943 and was raised and educated in Kent. She was a secondary school teacher between 1965 and 1971, and became a full-time writer in 1974. She wrote over fifty...

    , Heathrow Nights (Hodder)
    Beverley Naidoo
    Beverley Naidoo
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    , The Other Side of Truth
    The Other Side of Truth
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See also

  • Blue Peter Book Awards
    Blue Peter Book Awards
    The Blue Peter Book Awards are a series of literary prizes for children's literature awarded annually by the BBC television programme Blue Peter, and inaugurated in 2000....

  • Carnegie Medal
    Carnegie Medal
    The Carnegie Medal is a literary award established in 1936 in honour of Scottish philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and given annually to an outstanding book for children and young adults. It is awarded by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals...

  • Children's Laureate
    Children's Laureate
    Children's Laureate is a position awarded in the UK once every two years to a distinguished writer or illustrator of children's books. A biannual bursary of £10,000 is offered...

  • Kate Greenaway Medal
    Kate Greenaway Medal
    The Kate Greenaway Medal was established in the United Kingdom in 1955 in honour of the children's illustrator, Kate Greenaway. The medal is given annually to an outstanding work of illustration in children's literature. It is awarded by Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals...

  • Nestle Smarties Book Prize
    Nestlé Smarties Book Prize
    The Nestlé Children's Book Prize, also known as the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, was an annual award given to children's books written in the previous year by a UK citizen or resident. The prize was administered by Booktrust, an independent charity which promotes books and reading, and sponsored by...


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