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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]
Award Category Title Result Ref 2022 Waterstones Children's Book Prize: Younger Fiction Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow: Shortlisted [8] Diverse Book Awards Children's Won [7] Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards: Young Adult Fiction The King is Dead: Shortlisted [18] 2024 Jhalak Prize: Children's and Young Adult How to Die Famous ...
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.
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]
Waterstones maintains and supports various literary awards, including the Waterstones Book of the Year, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, [18] the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, Waterstones Irish Book of the Year, the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize, [155] and the Waterstones Children's Laureate, [17] as well as now-defunct awards ...