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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 ...
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]
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 ...
[3] [4] [5] Waterstones also named it the Children's Book of the Month for May 2018. [6] In 2019, The Guardian and The Times named The Girl Who Speaks Bear one of the best children's books of the year. [7] [8] The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books also named it one of the best children's books of 2020. [9]
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.
Hannah Gold is a British children's literature author who writes stories which share reverence for nature. Gold worked in film and magazines prior to becoming a full-time writer. [1] 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]
Patrice Lawrence MBE, FRSL (born 1960s) is a British writer and journalist, who has published fiction both for adults and children. Her writing has won awards including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Children and The Bookseller YA Book Prize.
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 ...