Children's Book Awards - Shortlists and Winners

A Darkling Plain
Philip Reeve
Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2006. By Hugh (10) - It is a brilliant mix of action, suspense and emotion.  I love how you can really understand the character's feelings. Hester isn't just Hester, but a sad...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 20/03/2006
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The Book of Everything
Guus Kuijer
Shortlisted for the Marsh Award 2006. A magical story about the power of a child’s imagination to free him from the tyranny of a brutalizing father. Thomas’s father imposes a reign...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/03/2006
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A Swift Pure Cry
Siobhan Dowd
Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2007. A superb first novel, beautifully written, deeply moving and full of heartbreak. When Shell Talent’s mother dies everything around her begins to fall to pieces. Tired of looking after her younger brother and sister...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/03/2006
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I'm Not Cute!
Jonathan Allen
Baby Owl doesn't want to be cute, he wants to be a hunting machine.  When his mum agrees that he isn't cute he gets upset and insists "I AM!"  She solves the problem by telling Baby Owl that he can...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2006
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Clackety-Clacks: Bee
Luana Rinaldo
A noisy book for busy babies!  This is a lovely little book in a fun format.  The story and bold illustrations will keep very young children captivated as they follow Bee on his travels meeting lots of other animals.
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Format: Board Book - Released: 17/02/2006
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I Love My Mummy
Sebastien Braun
The perfect book for mum and child to read together.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 16/01/2006
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Young Bond : Blood Fever
Charlie Higson
Winner of the Blue Peter Book Awards - Book I couldn't put down. Fans and non-fans of the grown up James Bond alike will be equally attracted to the young James Bond, now back to be the hero of a...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 05/01/2006
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Spud Goes Green
Giles Thaxton
Age 7+. Winner of the Blue Peter Book Awards. Best book with facts. A clever story which successfully wraps up a mass of information in a remarkably small space. Spud takes a tough New Year’s decision: he decides to go...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2006
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Peek-a-boo!
Annie Kubler
Shortlisted for the Early Years – Baby Book Award, this is a must for the nursery.  The many well-loved nursery games, both traditional and modern, which fill the pages will delight toddlers and their parents time and time again.
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Format: Board Book - Released: 30/11/2005
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Turbulence
Jan Mark
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. What the judges said: This is a story of family life, rendered more chaotic than ever by the arrival of a self-obsessed stranger. Mark demonstrates her unerring ability to unpick the strands of everyday living...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 17/11/2005
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Fly By Night
Frances Hardinge
12+ years. Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2006. Fly By Night is a wholly original fantasy peopled with a cast of unusual characters whose adventures unravel at a breathtaking pace. Mosca runs away from home with a manic goose...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2005
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Mirrormask
Neil Gaiman
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. What the judges said: A sophisticated and challenging graphic novel which employs striking images, collage and film stills to work with an extensive text for older readers. It has an edgy, fragmented...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/10/2005
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Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You
Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. What the judges said: A satisfying, quality production with a wealth of detail, which cleverly employs a variety of artistic styles and media to make it appear like the work of more than one...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/10/2005
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Mimus
Lilli Thal
Shortlisted for the Marsh Award 2006. Mimus is a medieval epic adventure that will as Karen Cushman, celebrated author said, ‘chill your blood, tickle your funny bone and warm your heart’.  You will be transported...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2005
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Home
Nicola Davies
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2006. Set in a far off future, Home is a powerful science fiction story which asks readers to take a fresh look at Earth and to consider what belonging somewhere means and why it...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/09/2005
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Charlie Cook's Favourite Book
Julia Donaldson
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Prize 2007 'Most Fun Story with Pictures.' Another gem from the prize-winning creators of The Gruffalo. There are lots of reading jokes in this book within a book, within a book: pirates and robbers settle...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2005
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Framed
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.   What the judges said: Cottrell Boyce’s second children’s novel is original, charming and funny. It is a poignant and pacey adventure with a tightly structured plot full of humour, wisdom and...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2005
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Bridge To The Stars
Henning Mankell
Known better for his crime writing for adults, this is an incredibly moving story about the life of a teenager in Sweden.  Beautifully written with some stunning characters brought vividly to light and some...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2005
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Little Red
Lynn Roberts
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. What the judges said: By setting it in a new period (18th century America), the illustrator refreshes a story everyone knows, and employs all sorts of amusing touches, and a highly distinctive...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2005
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Russell the Sheep
Rob Scotton
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. What the judges said: A book that makes friends! Its limited colour palette works very well, particularly in its use of white. It also gives a great sense of texture – the sheeps’ fleeces...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2005
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Century
Sarah Singleton
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2006. Century is a haunting story with a wonderfully gothic feel. Mercy and her sister Charity live in huge house full of dusty corners. Outside it is always winter and the two...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2005
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When I Lived in Modern Times
Linda Grant
Shortlisted for the Best of the Orange Best 2010 by the Orange Prize Youth Panel.  A naïve young Jewish woman, Evelyn, moves to Israel, the Promised Land, in 1946. The country is coping with an influx of refugees and gradually Evelyn’s eyes are...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/10/2000
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The Traitor Game
B R Collins
Winner of for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   An extraordinary fantasy novel from a supremely talented debut novelist. Set partly in a boys’ school and also in another world that is both fierce and dangerous, it has themes...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/11/1999
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Northern Lights
Philip Pullman
Winner of the Carnegie of Carnegies in 2007 and Carnegie winner in 1995. Part one of Philip Pullman’s magnificent trilogy. His ‘Dark Materials’, is the story of Lyra, a young girl with an exceptional destiny. Brought up in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 16/10/1998
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Dogger
Shirley Hughes
Winner of the Greenaway of Greenaways in 2007 and Greenaway winner in 1977. Filled with humour and Shirley Hughes' deft touch, this is a book for young readers to tackle by themselves, as well as a delight to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 18/11/1993
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Being Billy
Phil Earle
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2012. A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. "Faces flashed before my eyes. And for every face there was a time that they had let me down. Each punch that landed was revenge,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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April Underhill, Tooth Fairy
Bob Graham
Equipped with a bag, a coin and a mobile phone, toothfairy sisters April and Esme head for Daniel Dangerfield's house, and a very unusual first tooth visit! How to Heal a Broken Wing won the Charlotte Zolotow Award for best...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/07/2010
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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,...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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