Waterstone's Children's Book Prize
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.
Winners
Shortlists
- 2011
- The Memory Cage by Ruth Eastham
- Tall Story by Candy Gourlay
- The Pain Merchants by Janice Hardy
- Wereworld: The Rise of the Wolf by Curtis Jobling
- Fantastic Frankie and the Brain-Drain by Anna Kemp
- A Beautiful Lie by Irfan Master
- Mortlock by Jon Mayhew
- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
- 2010
- Flyaway by Lucy Christopher
- The Crowfield Curse by Pat Walsh
- The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
- Love, Aubrey by Suzanne Lafleur
- The Seven Sorcerers by Caro King
- The Toymaker by Jeremy De Quidt
- Meteorite Strike by A.G. Taylor
- Desperate Measures by Laura Summers
- 2009
- How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant by Elen Caldecott
- Zelah Green Queen of Clean by Vanessa Curtis
- Changeling by Steve Feasey
- The Thirteen Treasures by Michelle Harrison
- Gnomes are Forever by Ceci Jenkinson
- The Lady in the Tower by Marie-Louise Jensen
- Mapmaker's Monsters by Rob Stevens
- Numbers by Rachel Ward
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