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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

Anthony Browne

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.

Gorilla Little Beauty Piggy Book


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, £6.99


Booktrust Early Years Awards

Baby Book Award
Chick 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


COSTA Children's Book of the Year Award

THE ASK AND THE ANSWER by Patrick Ness (Chaos Walking)

Roald Dahl Funny Prize

Six and Under

Mr Pusskins Best in Show by Sam Lloyd (Orchard Books)

Seven to Fourteen

Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky


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