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Children's Literature Awards
As a general rule winners receive their awards for a book published in the year preceding the year of the award. The CLPE POETRY AWARD for 2010 NEW & COLLECTED POEMS FOR CHILDREN by the Poet Laureate CAROL ANN DUFFY published by Faber. Blue Peter Award
Booktrust Teenage Prize
Booktrust Early Years Award
Branford Boase Award
The Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education
Children's Laureate
The Guardian Fiction Award
Hans Christian Andersen Award
Marsh Award for Children's Literature in translation
The Red House Children's Book Awards
The Costa Children's Award Winner (formerly Whitbread)
Roald Dahl Funny Prize
New Childrens' Laureate
CONGRATULATIONS to the new Children's Laureate JULIA DONALDSON, mega-bestselling author and creator of The Gruffalo and a host of other much-loved picture books.
Julia is a firm and constant supporter of independent bookshops as well as a campaigner against library closures and will be a marvellous ambassador for children's books. She is the seventh Children's Laureate, following in the footsteps of Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Rosen and Anthony Browne.
(Read more in our June issue of The Roar or go to www.childrenslaureate.co.uk)
Blue Peter Book of the Year
Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud
Lunatics and Luck (The Raven Mysteries) by Marcus Sedgwick
Orion, 9781444001884
Best Book with Facts
Do Igloos Have Loos? by Mitchell Symons
Doubleday, 9780385617840
The Book I Couldn't Put Down
Dead Mans Cove by Lauren St John
Orion, 9781444001488
Booktrust Teenage Prize
Unhooking the Moon by Gregory Hughes Quercus, £6.99Booktrust Early Years Awards
Baby Book AwardI Love my Mummy by Giles Andrea and illustrated by Emma Dodd (Orchard) Pre-School Award
One Smart Fish by Chris Wormell (Jonathan Cape) Best Emerging Illustrator
The Django by Levi Pinford (Templar)
The Branford Boase Award winner 2011
for first-time writer and his/her editor -
Jason Wallace for his debut teen novel OUT OF SHADOWS (Andersen Press) and editor Charlie Sheppard.
The Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals
Carnegie Medal
Awarded by The Library Association for 'an outstanding book for children and young people'.
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, published by Bloomsbury
9780747594802, £6.99
Kate Greenaway Medal
Awarded by The Library Association for 'outstanding illustration in a children's book'.
Harry & Hopper by Margaret Wild and Freya Blackwood published by Scholastic
9781407111391, £6.99
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) Poetry Award for 2010
NEW & COLLECTED POEMS FOR CHILDREN (published by Faber)
by the Poet Laureate CAROL ANN DUFFY
Guardian Children's Fiction Award
Ghost Hunter
by Michelle Paver (Orion), 9781842551172
Hans Christian Andersen Awards
DAVID ALMOND is the winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award
For an outstanding contribution to writing for children and for illustration
Author award: DAVID ALMOND
Illustrator award: JUTTA BAUER
MARSH AWARD for Children's Literature in translation (Awarded bi-annually)
Toby Alone by Timothée de Fombelle translated from French by Sarah Ardizzone
illustrated by François Place (Walker Books, 2008)
1406313157 - £9.99
The Red House Children's Book Awards
Books for Younger Children:
Bottoms Up
by Jeanne Willis
Penguin, 9780141502137, £6.99
Books for Younger Readers:
Mondays are Murder
by Tanya Landman
Walker, 9781406314601, £4.99
Books for Older Readers:
Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
Scholastic, 9781407109084, £6.99
Overall winner:
Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
Scholastic, 9781407109084, £6.99
COSTA Children's Book of the Year Award
OUT OF SHADOWS by Jason Wallace (published by Andersen Press)Jason Wallace fought off strong competition from award-winning author Jonathan Stroud to win the children's category award with this accomplished debut novel.