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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. 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
Everyone here at The Lion & Unicorn would like to congratulate Anthony Browne on being made the sixth childrens laureate. Anyone who has had the pleasure of reading any of his wonderful picture books will know that the award is well deserved.
Anthony succeeds Michael Rosen (2007 - 2009), Jacqueline Wilson (2005-2007), Michael Morpurgo (2003-2005), Anne Fine (2001-2003) and Quentin Blake (1999-2001)
We have a great selection of his books for sale instore which include Piggybook, Gorilla, and his latest book Little Beauty.
Blue Peter Book of the Year
Overall Blue Peter Book of the Year
Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkes
Oxford, 9780192727558, £5.99
Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud
Dinkin Dings by Guy Bass
Stripes, 9781847151209, £4.99
Best Book with Facts
Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You by Mitchell Symons
Red Fox, 9781862301849, £4.99
The Book I Couldn't Put Down
Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkes
Oxford, 9780192727558, £5.99
Booktrust Teenage Prize
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Bloomsbury, 9780747594802, £6.99Booktrust Early Years Awards
Baby Book AwardChick by Ed Vere (Puffin)
9780141384863, £7.99 Pre-School Award
Oliver Who Travelled Far and Wide by Mara Bergman (Hodder)
£5.99 Best Emerging Illustrator
Box of Tricks by Katie Cleminson (Red Fox)
9781862306271, £5.99
The Branford Boase Award
for first-time writer and his/her editor -
Lucy Christopher for STOLEN
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
THE YOUNG INFERNO (published by Francis Lincoln)
by Satoshi Kitamura
9781845077693, £12.99
Guardian Children's Fiction Award
EXPOSURE
by Mal Peet (Walker Books)
Hans Christian Andersen Awards
DAVID ALMONDis 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