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The shortlist for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2025 has been announced. The award, now in its 21st year, is voted for by booksellers across the UK, with the shortlist comprising 12 ...
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 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 storytelling while ...
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]
Broken Soup is a 2008 children's novel by Jenny Valentine. It was shortlisted for the 2008 Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the 2008 Costa Book Children's Book Award, [1] [2] and longlisted for the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize. [3] It has also been longlisted for the 2009 Manchester Book Award and nominated for the 2009 Carnegie Medal. [4] [5]
Chen Bochui Children's Literature Award; Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood; Children's Book of the Year Award: Eve Pownall Award for Information Books; Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers; Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers
Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "British children's literary awards" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
It was published in May 2016 in the UK, where it won the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 and the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year. [7] [8] The US release was in November 2016. It has sold to more than 25 territories around the world and is a perennial bestseller in the UK.