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
Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Winners
The Costa Children's Award Winner (formerly Whitbread)

Blue Peter Book of the Year

Overall Blue Peter Book of the Year

LOST AND FOUND by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins)
HarperCollins

Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud

LOST AND FOUND by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins)
HarperCollins

Best Book with Facts

SPUD GOES GREEN by Jake Thaxton
Egmont

The Book I Couldn't Put Down

BLOOD FEVER by Charlie Higson
Puffin

Booktrust Teenage Prize

MY SWORDHAND IS SINGING by Marcus Sedgwick
(Orion)

Booktrust Early Years Awards

Baby Book Award
TUCKING IN! by Jess Stockham (Child's Play)

Pre-School Award
PENGUIN by Polly Dunbar (Walker)

Emerging Illustrator
MONKEY AND ME by Emily Gravett (Macmillan)

The Branford Boase Award

for first-time writer and his/her editor -

Jenny Downham, edited by David Fickling for BEFORE I DIE published by David Fickling

The Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals

Carnegie Medal

Awarded by The Library Association for 'an outstanding book for children and young people'.

HERE LIES ARTHUR by Philip Reeve, published by Scholastic

Kate Greenaway Medal

Awarded by The Library Association for 'outstanding illustration in a children's book'.

LITTLE MOUSE'S BIG BOOK OF FEARS by Emily Gravett published by Macmillan

Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) Poetry Award

RED CHERRY RED (published by Bloomsbury)
by Jackie Kay

Children's Laureate

Michael Rosen is the fifth CHILDREN'S LAUREATE

Recently announced as the most borrowed author in UK libraries, Michael Rosen succeeds Jacqueline Wilson (2005-2007), Michael Morpurgo (2003-2005), Anne Fine (2001-2003) and Quentin Blake (1999-2001)

As Children's Laureate Michael receives £10,000 and an impressive gold and silver medallion.

Guardian Children's Fiction Award

FINDING VIOLET PARK
by Jenny Valentine (HarperCollins)

Hans Christian Andersen Awards

MARGARET MAHYis the winner of the 2005 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award

MARSH AWARD for Children's Literature in translation (Awarded bi-annually)

Awarded to Anthea Bell for her translation from German of

THE FLOWING QUEEN by Kai Meyer (Egmont)

The Red House Children's Book Awards

Books for Younger Children:

PENGUIN

by Polly Dunbar
Walker

Books for Younger Readers:

OTTOLINE AND THE YELLOW CAT

by Chris Riddell
Macmillan

Books for Older Readers:

SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT

by Derek Landy
Collins

Overall winner:

SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT

by Derek Landy
Collins

Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Winners

AGE 5 AND UNDER

WHEN A MONSTER IS BORN by Sean Taylor and Nick Sharratt
(Orchard)

AGE 6 - 8 YEARS

OTTOLINE AND THE YELLOW CAT by Chris Riddell
(Macmillan)

AGE 9 - 11 YEARS

SHADOW FOREST by Matt Haig
(Bodley Head)

COSTA Children's Book of the Year Award

THE BOWER BIRD by Ann Kelley (Luath Press)