Children's Book Awards - Shortlists and Winners

100 Most Dangerous Things on the Planet
Anna Claybourne
This fascinating ultimate survival handbook will teach you how to survive the world's most dangerous situations ranging from plane crashes and avalanches to jelly fish stings and snake bites. It even gives a top tip on how best to survive each of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2008
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A Bit Lost
Chris Haughton
A Lovereading4kids 'Great read you may have missed 2011' selection. A Lovereading4Kids 'Debut of the Year 2011' selection. Winner of the top children's book award in Ireland in 2011 - the Bisto Award. Babies and Toddlers +. When Little Owl falls out of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2011
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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...
Format: Hardback - Released: 20/03/2006
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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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A Little Guide To Wild Flowers
Charlotte Voake
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Award 2007 'Best Book With Facts.' This is an unusual and lovely book from an award winning author and we're so pleased to see it on the shortlist for the Blue Peter Book Award...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2007
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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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A Perfect Ten
Chris Higgins
Winner of the Young Minds Book Prize 2009.  Chris Higgins’ writing rivals the likes of Cathy Cassidy and Jacqueline Wilson.  She’s an author truly in tune with the teen psyche.  This is her fourth novel and she gets better and better with each...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/10/2008
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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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/10/2007
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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...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/03/2006
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ABC UK
James Dunn
Shortlisted for the 2009 Norfolk Libraries Children's Book Award and nominated for the 2009 Kate Greenaway Medal. A wonderful picture book for parents to share with younger and older children alike. It’s unusual in that through the alphabet it introduces a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2009
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Abela
Berlie Doherty
An eye-opening book, Abela is the touching and profound story of two girls who apparently have nothing in common. The two girls tell their own stories. Abela, growing up in Tanzania, is surrounded by suffering. Her father has already died...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2008
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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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2008
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Accidents Of Nature
Harriet Mcbryde Johnson
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Award 2008. A hard hitting but heartwarming story to change everyone's view of disability forever. Jean has cerebral palsy but her parents have always made her think that the goal was to be as 'normal' as...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/04/2008
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Airman
Eoin Colfer
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Award 2009 and shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. A fabulous blood racing story that blends adventure, fantasy, history and science fiction and then dusts it with humour: Conor’s destiny is to fly but...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2009
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Alienography Or: How to Spot an Alien Invasion and What to Do About it
Chris Riddell
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2011:  Most Fun Story with Pictures* Prize-winning illustrator/ author Chris Riddell has created a fabulous cast of strange creatures and the unusual antics they get up to in a brilliantly imagined and conceived world....
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/09/2010
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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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2008
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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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2007
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Annexed
Sharon Dogar
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book of the Year Award 2010. Shortlisted for the prestigious Sheffield Children's Book Award 2011. The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the most treasured children’s books of the last fifty years. Anne’s account...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2007
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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...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/07/2010
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Archaeology Detectives
Simon Adams
A wonderful search back in time, from the ice-age to Titanic, across the globe, this book uncovers some of the greatest archaeological mysteries explaining how they were found and excavated. Fact boxes, reproductions of how some of the sites may...
Format: Loose-leaf - Released: 01/05/2008
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Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex (Book 7)
Eoin Colfer
Winner of the 2011 Independent Booksellers’ Award Bestselling master criminal Artemis Fowl is back for another thrilling adventure. But, is he the same? Now fifteen, Artemis seems older and wiser and he is determined to save the world from...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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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...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/10/2005
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Artichoke Hearts
Sita Brahmachari
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2011 A welter of emotions engulf Mira in this touching pre-teen story about secrets and how to keep them and share them. Strongly set in a busy family, Mira’s life is full of the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2011
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Augustus And His Smile
Catherine Rayner
Catherine Rayner has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. An absolutely delightful picture book for parent and child to share from a very talented new author and illustrator who is also the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/04/2006
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Auslander
Paul Dowswell
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. A tense and dramatic story of growing up in Berlin during World War Two. When Piotr’s parents are killed he is taking to an orphanage in Warsaw. But...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Auslander
Paul Dowswell
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. A tense and dramatic story of growing up in Berlin during World War Two. When Piotr’s parents are killed he is taking...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Baby Loves: Tiger
Claire Dowe
Shortlisted for the Baby Book Award, Early Year Awards 2009   One of a delightful range of board books in which an animal, in this instance a tiger, shows his love for other animals. Complete with peekaboo flaps that reveal the animals...
Format: Board book - Released: 06/04/2009
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Baby's very first outdoors book

Shortlisted for the Baby Book Award, Early Year Awards 2009   A car goes brrm brrm, a bird goes tweet tweet, rain goes pitter patter and a plane goes zoom; these are just some of the sounds for baby to relate to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2009
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Bang Bang You're Dead
Narinder Dhami
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Prize 2009. It seems like just another day at school, then Mia's world turns upside down. School is being evacuated. Rumour has it there's a gunman in the building. And Mia has a horrible feeling she knows...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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