The Book Awards category on Lovereading4kids will help you and your child discover authors currently in contention for and/or winners of the most prestigious awards. By their very presence on this page, you can be sure that each of the books featured here is the 'crème-de-la-crème' of today's children's literature.
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For each award, Lovereading4kids will feature the shortlist of books and authors before the individual winner is announced. As with all our Featured Books, you and your child will be able to download and print off free Opening Extracts of each book. In this way, you can choose your own winner and see if the judges agree with you!
And remember, even if the judges don't pick your favourite, all our Children's Book Award books are available to order online at 25% off the RRP.
As Lovereading4kids grows we'll be featuring as many awards as we can manage, including:
Costa Children's Award
Branford Boase Award
Marsh Award in Translation
The Guardian Children's Fiction Award
The Red House Children's Book Award
The Booktrust Teenage Prize
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A Hen in the Wardrobe
Wendy Meddour
Witty and warm-hearted, this is a delightful family story spiced with adventure. Everything is distinctly not normal in Ramzi’s house. While mum’s away studying Domes of the East for her architecture course, dad starts waking in the night to do...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Wendy Meddour
Witty and warm-hearted, this is a delightful family story spiced with adventure. Everything is distinctly not normal in Ramzi’s house. While mum’s away studying Domes of the East for her architecture course, dad starts waking in the night to do...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Blood Red Road
Moira Young
Winner of the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award. The story's searing pace, its spare style, the excitement of its fabulously damaged world, its unforgettably vivid characters, its violent action and glorious love story make this a truly sensatonal YA debut novel. Much...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2012
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Moira Young
Winner of the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award. The story's searing pace, its spare style, the excitement of its fabulously damaged world, its unforgettably vivid characters, its violent action and glorious love story make this a truly sensatonal YA debut novel. Much...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2012
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How the World Works
Christiane Dorion
Winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize. Click here to see How the Weather Works by the same author. A fully interactive guide to different aspects of the workings of the world. The story of the water cycle pops up in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2010
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Christiane Dorion
Winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize. Click here to see How the Weather Works by the same author. A fully interactive guide to different aspects of the workings of the world. The story of the water cycle pops up in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2010
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The Penalty
Mal Peet
Shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007. This is the second novel from Mal Peet that features Paul Faustino (the first was Keeper) South America’s top sports journalist. It’s a brilliant thriller, beautifully written and the author’s passion...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Mal Peet
Shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007. This is the second novel from Mal Peet that features Paul Faustino (the first was Keeper) South America’s top sports journalist. It’s a brilliant thriller, beautifully written and the author’s passion...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Tamar
Mal Peet
Winner of the Carnegie Medal 2006. What the judges said: This is an enthralling and multi-layered novel that traces the story of two men caught up in secret operations in World War Two. It looks at the negative...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Mal Peet
Winner of the Carnegie Medal 2006. What the judges said: This is an enthralling and multi-layered novel that traces the story of two men caught up in secret operations in World War Two. It looks at the negative...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Andrew Mulligan
Winner of the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. The judging panel was chaired by Lovereading4kids Editor in Chief Julia Eccleshare who is also the Guardian Children's Books editor. She said of the winner: “The judges considered energetically and argued...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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Andrew Mulligan
Winner of the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. The judging panel was chaired by Lovereading4kids Editor in Chief Julia Eccleshare who is also the Guardian Children's Books editor. She said of the winner: “The judges considered energetically and argued...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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Cats Ahoy!
Peter Bently
Winner of the 6 and under category, Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011. A swashbuckling tale of pirate plunder, derring do and a huge haul of haddock! "These two books are master classes in how to write and how to draw funny," said...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2011
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Peter Bently
Winner of the 6 and under category, Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011. A swashbuckling tale of pirate plunder, derring do and a huge haul of haddock! "These two books are master classes in how to write and how to draw funny," said...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2011
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The Highway Rat
Julia Donaldson
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011 Best-selling author/ illustrator combination Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler have teamed up for another great adventure. Many of the creatures that appear in The Gruffalo feature in this rollicking adventure...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Julia Donaldson
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011 Best-selling author/ illustrator combination Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler have teamed up for another great adventure. Many of the creatures that appear in The Gruffalo feature in this rollicking adventure...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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One Dog and His Boy
Eva Ibbotson
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Shortlisted for the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011 Award winning Eva Ibbotson’s poignant and beautiful last book celebrates a boy’s passion for a dog. All Hal has ever wanted...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/05/2011
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Eva Ibbotson
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Shortlisted for the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011 Award winning Eva Ibbotson’s poignant and beautiful last book celebrates a boy’s passion for a dog. All Hal has ever wanted...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/05/2011
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The Brilliant World of Tom Gates
Liz Pichon
Winner of 7 - 14 category of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011. A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. "These two books are master classes in how to write and how to draw funny," said Roald Dahl Funny...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2011
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Liz Pichon
Winner of 7 - 14 category of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011. A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. "These two books are master classes in how to write and how to draw funny," said Roald Dahl Funny...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2011
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Dead Man's Cove: A Laura Marlin Mystery
Lauren St.John
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Shortlisted for the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011. Overall winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2011 and winner of the Favourite Story Category. From the author of the much-loved...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/03/2011
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Lauren St.John
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Shortlisted for the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011. Overall winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2011 and winner of the Favourite Story Category. From the author of the much-loved...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/03/2011
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My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Annabel Pitcher
A Lovereading4Kids 'Debut of the Year 2011' selection. 11+. Heartbreaking and funny in equal measure, 10-year-old Jamie's direct and wide-eyed account of the emotional chaos he and his family live through following the death of his sister in a terrorist attack...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/10/2011
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Annabel Pitcher
A Lovereading4Kids 'Debut of the Year 2011' selection. 11+. Heartbreaking and funny in equal measure, 10-year-old Jamie's direct and wide-eyed account of the emotional chaos he and his family live through following the death of his sister in a terrorist attack...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/10/2011
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A Monster Calls
Siobhan Dowd, Patrick Ness
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Winner of the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011 Prize-winning Patrick Ness displays brilliant new skills of sensitivity in this hauntingly touching story of how a boy deals with the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/05/2011
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Siobhan Dowd, Patrick Ness
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Winner of the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011 Prize-winning Patrick Ness displays brilliant new skills of sensitivity in this hauntingly touching story of how a boy deals with the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/05/2011
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Stuck
Oliver Jeffers
Floyd gets his kite stuck up a tree. He throws up his shoe to shift it, but that gets stuck too. So he throws up his other shoe and that gets stuck, along with! a ladder, a pot of paint,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Oliver Jeffers
Floyd gets his kite stuck up a tree. He throws up his shoe to shift it, but that gets stuck too. So he throws up his other shoe and that gets stuck, along with! a ladder, a pot of paint,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Just Henry (TV Tie In Edition)
Michelle Magorian
Winner of the 2008 Costa Children’s Book Award - From the award winning author of Goodnight Mister Tom comes a new page turning tale. Warmhearted and full of period detail, Just Henry is a wonderful story of growing up...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2011
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Michelle Magorian
Winner of the 2008 Costa Children’s Book Award - From the award winning author of Goodnight Mister Tom comes a new page turning tale. Warmhearted and full of period detail, Just Henry is a wonderful story of growing up...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2011
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The Unforgotten Coat
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award. A gem of a story by award-winning Frank Cottrell Boyce, this is sure to make readers laugh and cry and to go away changed when they have finished it. Looking back on an...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Frank Cottrell Boyce
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award. A gem of a story by award-winning Frank Cottrell Boyce, this is sure to make readers laugh and cry and to go away changed when they have finished it. Looking back on an...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Small Change for Stuart
Lissa Evans
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award. One of the 8 titles longlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. Small Stuart embarks on an awfully big adventure in this quirky puzzle-solving novel. Uprooted from London by his kindly but distracted...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/05/2011
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Lissa Evans
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award. One of the 8 titles longlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. Small Stuart embarks on an awfully big adventure in this quirky puzzle-solving novel. Uprooted from London by his kindly but distracted...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/05/2011
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Flip
Martyn Bedford
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award. Waking up as someone he’s never even met is the strangest experience of Flip’s life. Suddenly he’s Philip – or Flip – and nothing and no-one is familiar any more; the house, his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Martyn Bedford
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award. Waking up as someone he’s never even met is the strangest experience of Flip’s life. Suddenly he’s Philip – or Flip – and nothing and no-one is familiar any more; the house, his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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