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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]
In 2015, he won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Blown Away, which was the second picture book to win the prize. [ 3 ] Several of his picture books have featured on the BBC television series CBeebies Bedtime Stories .
The first book in the series, The Brilliant World of Tom Gates, was published in 2011 and won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, a Red House Children's Book Award and a Waterstones Children's Book Prize. [2] As of 2023 the books have sold more than 14 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 47 languages. [3]
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.