Children's Book Awards - Shortlists and Winners

Usborne Lift the Flap Picture Atlas
Alex Frith, Kate Leake
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Best Book with Facts' Award. An original, innovative and interactive atlas full of flaps to lift, revealing beautiful buildings, exotic animals and fabulous sights.  Divided into the separate continents, each double page is crammed with...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 27/02/2008
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Accidental Friends
Helena Pielichaty
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Award 2008. A touching tale that involves four young strangers getting accidentally involved with each other through a chance encounter. Together they embark upon their college education that will change their lives forever. Helen Pielichaty has...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2008
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From Where I Stand
Tabitha Suzuma
Winner of the YoungMinds Book Award 2008. There are no punches pulled in this exciting psychological thriller. After witnessing the death of his mother, Raven’s life is a mess despite help from foster carers and the rest. When a friend suggests...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2008
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Molly and the Night Monster
Christopher Wormell
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. Night fears are calmed in this beautiful picture book capturing moments familiar to many parents and children. In the middle of the night, Molly hears something on the stairs. She imagines all the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/02/2008
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The Diamond of Drury Lane (A Cat Royal Novel)
Julia Golding
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award. Winner of Nestle Children's Award 2006.   Cat Royal, the feisty little orphan-girl brought up in a theatre, is a brilliant narrator of this terrific action-packed adventure. There’s intrigue, politics,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2008
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Ottoline Goes To School
Chris Riddell
Shortlisted for the prestigious Sheffield Children's Book Award 2009 A wonderful quirky mystery adventure that follows the story of Miss Ottoline Brown, the inquisitive Mistress of Disguise, and her partner in crime, her hairy and helpful friend, Mr Munroe, first introduced...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2008
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Broken Soup
Jenny Valentine
Shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Children’s Book Award.  Rowan is sure that she didn’t drop the negative that a boy presses into her hands but when her friend Bee offers to print it, Rowan’s curiosity causes her to accept. Who was...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2008
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Anila's Journey
Mary Finn
Shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. A stunning debut novel, Anila’s Journey captures a girl with an amazing talent for drawing who is swept up in an epic journey up the Ganges where she hopes she may find...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2008
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Monkey and Me
Emily Gravett
Emily Gravett was selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. She launched onto the children’s book scene only a short while ago but has already made a considerable name for herself with children with...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2008
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Between Two Seas
Marie-Louise Jensen
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   Marianne promises her dying mother that she’ll seek a better life and especially that she’ll try to find her father. Leaving Grimsby, Marianne sets off on a long and dangerous voyage...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008
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Lost! The Hundred mile an hour Dog
Jeremy Strong
Already the heroine of many hilarious stories Streaker, so named for her exceptional speed, gives another hilarious dog’s-eye view of the strange world of humans. When Streaker sees some pies unguarded in the back of a pie van, she is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008
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Dexter Bexley And The Big Blue Beastie
Joel Stewart
Joel Stewart has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. Winner of the 0-5 Nestle Bronze Award 2007. Dexter Bexley has to come up with all kinds of bright ideas to stop the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008
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The Bower Bird
Ann Kelley
Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2007. What the Judges said - "The world of life and death, beauty and truth seen through the eyes of a 12 year old girl. A rare and beautiful book of lasting quality...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/12/2007
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Shadow Forest
Matt Haig
Winner of the overall Blue Peter Book of the Year 2009 and category winner of ‘the book I couldn’t put down’.   A dramatic adventure story set in an enchanted magical world. Samuel Blink’s life changes forever when a giant log...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2007
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My Brother Johnny
Francesco D'adamo
Shortlisted for the Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation.     My Brother Johnny addresses the contemporary moral issues about the nature of war by means of a compelling and sensitive narrative. Written by an Italian whose parents were refugees from Croatia. ...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/10/2007
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A Spell of Winter
Helen Dunmore
Shortlisted for the Best of the Orange Best 2010 by the Orange Prize Youth Panel. Winner of the 1996 Orange Prize for Fiction. This is a marvellous novel about forbidden passions and thwarted love by one of the UK's finest...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 25/10/2007
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The Snow Goose
Paul Gallico
Radio 4 Open Book listeners recently crowned The Snow Goose 'The book most deserved to be re-read' - the novel by Paul Gallico. It will be dramatised on Radio 4 in 2010   Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. Breathtaking...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2007
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Varmints
Helen Ward
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. The most overlooked threat in the world today is the loss of peace and tranquility. Can someone find the time and space to stop, think and plant the seeds of change before it’s...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2007
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Anna Hibiscus
Atinuke
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2008. Original and understated, this charming depiction of modern-day family life in west Africa is the debut from a fresh, new storytelling voice. Pacy and engaging Anna Hibiscus is perfect for the newly independent...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2007
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When The Snow Fell
Henning Mankell
Shortlisted for the Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation.    A touching story of growing up and discovering what really matters. Joel makes three New Year’s resolutions: To see a naked lady, to toughen himself up so that he can live...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
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Catcall
Linda Newbery
Winner of the 9-11 Nestle Silver Award 2007. This is a gripping and beautifully told atmospheric novel full of psychological tension and fast-paced action. It’s Linda Newbery, who is also the winner of the Costa Book Award with Set...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
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Gatty's Tale
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Carnegie. A gripping historical adventure that is dramatic, touching and compelling. Servant girl Gatty has an unusually beautiful voice which leads her to being swept up in a Crusade to the Holy Land. Her courage...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
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Finding Violet Park
Jenny Valentine
Highly commended in Branford Boase 2008 Award. Told with a delightfully light touch, this thoughtful and introspective novel for teens tells how hearing the story of Violet Park, leads Lucas on a moving and thought provoking mission that helps him...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2007
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Six Steps To A Girl
Sophie Mckenzie
Winner of the Manchester Children's Book Award 2009 The first in the tangled teenage transatlantic love story ... To read the trilogy in order start with Six Steps to a Girl then Three’s a Crowd and end with The...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2007
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Little Mouse's Big Book Of Fears
Emily Gravett
Winner of the of the 2008 Kate Greenaway Medal. This award winning author illustrator continues to create some of the most innovative and imaginative illustrated children's books. Through nursery rhyme stories follow Little Mouse as he confronts his many fears...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/08/2007
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Singing It
Anne Cottringer
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Award 2008. New place, new school and new friends to make - and all doubly if your parents called you 'Flower Power'. Luckily she has her songs to help her deal with...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
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When A Monster Is Born
Sean Taylor
Multiple Award Winning picture book. In this great book for storytime comes a very silly, funny and lovable monster. The story follows all the possibilities for interesting adventures when a monster is born with some extremely colourful illustrations.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
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Blood Red Snow White
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2007. The true story of master storyteller Arthur Ransome provides the background for this large scale and absorbing story. As a young man, Ransome was a journalist and, some thought, a spy, in...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/07/2007
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Apache
Tanya Landman
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Carnegie. An inspiring story of survival against a background of bloodshed. The fourteen year old Apache girl who narrates the story tells of her fight for her land, her tribe - and her life! The...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2007
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Tina's Web
Zei Alki
Shortlisted for the 2009 Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation.  If you read Junk by Malcolm Burgess, you were probably gripped by it but you didn’t necessarily enjoy it.  Tina’s Web, however, is different in many ways but similar too. ...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/06/2007
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