Children's Book Awards - Shortlists and Winners

WOW Said the Owl
Tim Hopgood
Shortlisted for the Best Pre-School Award, Early Year Awards 2009 Owl decides to wake up during the day and sleep at night.  A very odd thing for an owl to do.  But he discovers the world of colour and he’s in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Takeshita Demons
Cristy Burne
Winner of the inaugural Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Award 2009 A thrilling contemporary adventure wittily shot through with the powerful fantasy stories of the old demons from the Japanese past. Miku knows about the demons from growing up in Japan...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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The Bride's Farewell
Meg Rosoff
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011 Meg Rosoff has written another superb book for young adults, although this will be equally enjoyed by the more mature adults out there too! Pell leaves home determined not to get caught in the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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The Death-defying Pepper Roux
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011 A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011 Prize-winning Geraldine McCaughrean has turned her deft hand to a brilliantly witty and fast moving story about a boy who wants to defy his destiny. Pepper is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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The Enemy (The Enemy series 1)
Charlie Higson
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book Prize 2010.  A thrilling story of survival against the odds in a world in which adults have been killed or brain-crazed leaving only children under fourteen and with no one to look after them.  How...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Off Road to Everywhere
Philip Gross
Age 9+. Winner of the CLPE Poetry Award 2011 , which honours excellence in poetry written for children. Reviewed and selected by our poetry expert, Liam Parkin: Already an established poet and winner of the T. S. Eliot prize, Philip Gross...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2010
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Leviathan
Scott Westerfeld
A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011. Nominated for a prestigious Nebula Award 2010 - the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. This is an incredibly original and thought provoking novel. Think Europe 1914 -...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Tall Story
Candy Gourlay
This is a debut novel packed with warmth, humour and quirkiness that will have you in fits of laughter one minute and in tears the next as the author explores a touching sibling relationship and the clash of two very...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Genesis
Bernard Beckett
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 This will intrigue and fascinate you from the start. Set in a futuristic utopian society Anax is taking an exam which will decide if she can enter the elite ‘Academy’ and her subject is Adam...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Mr Stink
David Walliams
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Best Book of the Decade. A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011. Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010. Galaxy Children's Book Award shortlist 2010. The second original, touching, twisted, and most of all...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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The Ogre of Oglefort
Eva Ibbotson
Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010. Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2010. Irresistibly ridiculous, this is a wonderful and enchanting romp from a master storyteller. Every year at the Summer Meeting of Unusual Creatures the annual...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/05/2010
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Crocodiles are the Best Animals of All
Sean Taylor
Shortlisted for Roald Dahl's Funny Prize 2009. This is a real romp of a read with bright humorous illustrations accompanying a rich, rhyming text that children will enjoy reading alone and with their parents, time and time again.  Crocodile demonstrates...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2010
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Now
Morris Gleitzman
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2010. Morris Gleitzman's acclaimed story of friends Felix and Zelda in Nazi-occupied Poland has captured the hearts and minds of readers worldwide. In Now , he delivers the final chapter, bringing this most moving...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2010
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The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles book 1)
Rick Riordan
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers Book Award 2011 Best-selling author Rick Riordan who created Percy Jackson has once again created some non-stop thrilling action in this headlong adventure as the Egyptian past comes alive and threatens two present day children. Carter and...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2010
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Mr Gum and the Cherry Tree
Andy Stanton
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2011: Most Fun Story with Pictures* Hilarious, delightful and utterly, utterly absurd, prize-winning Andy Stanton’s truly revolting hero Mr Gum and the extraordinary town of Lamonic Bibber where he lives are back in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2010
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Millie's Marvellous Hat
Satoshi Kitamura
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2010. This gloriously imaginative story is all about the power of believing. Millie longs for a glorious hat but she hasn’t got any money. Cleverly, the kind man in the shop persuades her...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
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The Unfinished Angel
Sharon Creech
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. Prize-winning author Sharon Creech tells a magical story that's truly original, touching and funny of an unusual friendship between an unusual angel and Zola who find themselves sharing a tower high in the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
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Unhooking the Moon
Gregory Hughes
Shortlisted for the prestigious Branford Boase Award 2011. Winner of the BookTrust Teenage Book Prize 2010 and shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2010.   One absolutely, indisputably MEGA story! This highly recommended title is a beautifully written, utterly original, funny...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
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Revolver
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book Prize 2010. Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010, the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010 and for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009. A tense, psychological drama set in the snowy wilderness of the Arctic Circle, where...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 23/04/2010
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Mortal Engines: A Web of Air
Philip Reeve
Philip Reeve’s epic Mortal Engines series has set the imagination of many a child completely wild since it first began.  This is the 6th novel to be set in the awesome world of Mortal Engines and the sequel to Fever...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/04/2010
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The Pasta Detectives
Andreas Steinhofel
Shortlisted for the 2011 Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation. This is a funny and original mystery starring two unlikely boy detectives, the mildly autistic Rico and the brainy but anxiety-ridden Oscar.  The story of The Pasta Detectives explores the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2010
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Mortlock
Jon Mayhew
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2011 This devilishly good debut sees the birth of a wickedly witty and original new voice in the children’s book world. Mortlock is the sort of adventure that boys and girls will enjoy in...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/04/2010
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Mortal Engines: A Web of Air
Philip Reeve
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2011: Favourite Story* Philip Reeve’s epic Mortal Engines series has set the imagination of many a child completely wild since it first began.  This is the 6th novel to be set in the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2010
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The Witching Hour
Elizabeth Laird
Shortlisted for the Scottish Book Award 2010. Vivid and thrilling, The Witching Hour is a finely crafted historical novel, packed full of the important details which bring the past to life. At its heart is the story of strong spirited...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2010
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The Truth About Leo
David Yelland
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award 2010 Full of insight, this is a deeply moving story about how a child handles a parent with a serious problem. Leo’s life with his father is a mess but there is no way...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
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Raven Mysteries 3: Lunatics and Luck
Marcus Sedgwick
Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2011: Most Fun Story with Pictures*. As told by a raven, this Gothic horror richly laced in humour is a delicious read – especially when the moon is full! Castle Otherhand is beset by...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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I Love My Mummy
Giles Andreae, Emma Dodd
Winner of The Early Years Award 2010 for Best Book for babies under one-year-old. 'I love my mummy very much. She's great to cuddle, soft to touch.' A wonderfully simple and life-affirming text from the brilliant and award-winning Giles Andreae. Beautifully illustrated...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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The Silver Blade
Sally Gardner
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 and for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. The dramatic, horrific and sometimes romantic events of the French Revolution, which Sally Gardner so brilliantly portrayed in The Red Necklace are moved...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Dog Loves Books
Louise Yates
Winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010 (Funniest Book for Children aged Six and Under). Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. The magic of books and reading is perfectly illustrated in this joyful picture book. Dog loves books...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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No and Me
Delphine de Vigan
Shortlisted for the prestigious Sheffield Children's Book Award 2011 Deeply moving, this is the touching story of two teenagers from very different backgrounds whose friendship raises huge questions about what concepts of home and family really mean. Lou is bright and...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2010
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