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The Waterstones Children's Book Prize is an annual award given to a work of children's literature published during the previous year. First awarded in 2005, the purpose of the prize is "to uncover hidden talent in children's writing" and is therefore open only to authors who have published no more than two or three books, depending on which category they are in. [1] The prize is awarded by ...
Children's Laureate, now known as the Waterstones Children's Laureate, [1] is a prestigious position awarded in the United Kingdom once every two years to a "writer or illustrator of children's books to celebrate outstanding achievement in their field." The role promotes the importance of children’s literature, reading, creativity and ...
The book was children's book of the week in The Times and The Sunday Times, [6] [7] and won both the Overall and Younger Fiction prizes at the 2021 Waterstones Children's Book Prize. [8] It also won the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story, voted for by children. [9] McNicoll was nominated for the Branford Boase Award [10] and the Carnegie Medal.
The Last Bear won the 2022 Waterstones Children's Book Prize. [1] The Times called it "a stunning debut of a writer to watch". [2] It also won the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story in 2022 and has been translated into 25 languages around the world. Her second book, The Lost Whale, won the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award in 2023.
Katherine Rundell (born 10 July 1987) is an English author and academic. She is the author of Impossible Creatures, named Waterstones Book of the Year for 2023. [1] She is also the author of Rooftoppers, which in 2015 won both the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize [2] and the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story, [3] and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. [4]
Award-winning Coelho, 42, was presented with the Laureate medal by outgoing Waterstones Children’s Laureate, Dame Cressida Cowell, at a ceremony held in London.
Waterstones maintains and supports various literary awards, including the Waterstones Book of the Year, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, [17] the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, Waterstones Irish Book of the Year, the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize, [154] and the Waterstones Children's Laureate, [16] as well as now-defunct awards ...
Published in 2016, Orangeboy won The Bookseller ' s 2017 YA Book Prize, [6] the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Children 2017, [7] and was shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Children's Book Award. [8] [9] It received a five-star rating from MuggleNet, with the reviewer stating: "I absolutely adored this moving story. It is full of tears ...