Waterstone's Children's Book Prize

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The Waterstone's Children's Book Prize is an annual award given to a work of children's literature published during the previous year. First awarded in 2005, the purpose of the prize is "to uncover hidden talent in children's writing" and is therefore open only to authors who have published no more than three books.

For the first two years, the award was known as the Ottakar's Children's Book Prize, but when all Ottakar's stores were rebranded as Waterstone's following the HMV Group takeover of the Ottakar's chain, the prize also changed its name.

[edit] List of prize winners

• 2008 Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
• 2007 Darkside by Tom Becker
• 2006 The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
• 2005 The Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill

[edit] Shortlists

• 2008
  • Tumtum and Nutmeg by Emily Bearn
  • TIM, Defender of the Earth by Sam Enthoven
  • Shadow Forest by Matt Haig
  • Blue Sky Freedom by Gabrielle Halberstam
  • Between Two Seas by Marie-Louise Jensen
  • Ancient Appetites by Oisín McGann
  • Stone Goblins by David Melling
  • Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
  • Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine
• 2007
  • Darkside by Tom Becker
  • Nathan Fox: Dangerous Times by L. Brittney
  • The Werewolf Teacher by Michael Broad
  • Sebastian Darke by Philip Caveney
  • A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
  • Bunker 10 by J. A. Henderson
  • The Black Book of Secrets by F. E. Higgins
  • The Case of the Missing Cats by Gareth P. Jones
  • The Thing with Finn by Tom Kelly
  • Smugglers by Christopher Russell
• 2006
  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
  • Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach
  • The Quantum Prophecy by Michael Carroll
  • Gregor and the Rats of Underland by Suzanne Collins
  • Jack Slater, Monster Investigator by John Dougherty
  • Ralph the Magic Rabbit by Adam Frost
  • The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
  • The Lottery by Beth Goobie
  • North Child by Edith Pattou
  • Spymice by Heather Vogel Frederick
• 2005
  • Nelly the Monster Sitter by Kes Gray
  • Siberia by Ann Halam
  • The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
  • The Merrybegot by Julie Hearn
  • The Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill
  • The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull by Barry Jonsberg
  • Urchin of the Riding Stars by M. I. McAllister
  • The Whispering Road by Livi Michael
  • Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
  • Olivia Kidney by Ellen Potter
  • Jammy Dodgers on the Run by Bowering Sivers
  • Time Wreccas by Val Tyler

[edit] External links

• Waterstone's Children's Book Prize
• Waterstone's Children's Book Prize shortlist 2008
• Ottakar's Children's Book Prize shortlist 2006
• Ottakar's Children's Book Prize shortlist 2005