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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 DONALDSON

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, £6.99


Booktrust Early Years Awards

Baby Book Award
I 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.

Roald Dahl Funny Prize

Six and Under

Dog Loves Books by Louise Yates (Red Fox), £5.99

Seven to Fourteen

Withering Tights by Louise Rennison (HarperCollins), £5.99


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