Waterstones Children's Book Prize
The Waterstones 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.
Beginning in 2012, the prize was divided into three categories: Picture Books, Fiction 5–12, and Teen.[1] Each category winner receives £2,000 with an overall winner chosen from the three getting an additional £3,000 (thus the overall winner receives £5,000 in total).[2]
Recipients[]
Year | Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2005 | Best Book | Stuart Hill | The Cry of the Icemark | Winner | |
M. I. McAllister | Urchin of the Riding Stars | Finalist | |||
Barry Jonsberg | The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull | ||||
Livi Michael | The Whispering Road | ||||
Val Tyler | The Time Wreccas | ||||
The Merrybegot | |||||
Shannon Hale | The Goose Girl | ||||
Ann Halam | Siberia | ||||
Ellen Potter | Olivia Kidney | ||||
Nelly the Monster Sitter | |||||
Jammy Dodgers on the Run | |||||
Kenneth Oppel | Airborn | ||||
2006 | Best Book | Julia Golding | The Diamond of Drury Lane | Winner | |
Michael Carroll | The Quantum Prophecy | Finalist | |||
Beth Goobie | The Lottery | ||||
John Boyne | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | ||||
Spymice | |||||
Elise Broach | Shakespeare's Secret | ||||
Adam Frost | Ralph the Magic Rabbit | ||||
Edith Pattou | North Child | ||||
John Dougherty | Jack Slater, Monster Investigator | ||||
Suzanne Collins | Gregor and the Rats of Underland | ||||
2007 | Best Book | Tom Becker | Darkside | Winner | |
Tom Kelly | The Thing with Finn | Finalist | |||
Gareth P. Jones | The Case of the Missing Cats | ||||
F. E. Higgins | The Black Book of Secrets | ||||
Smugglers | |||||
Philip Caveney | Sebastian Darke | ||||
Nathan Fox: Dangerous Times | |||||
Michael Broad | Jake Cake: The Werewolf Teacher | ||||
Bunker 10 | |||||
Siobhan Dowd | A Swift Pure Cry | ||||
2008 | Best Book | Sally Nicholls | Ways to Live Forever | Winner | |
Tumtum and Nutmeg | Finalist | ||||
Sam Enthoven | TIM Defender of the Earth | ||||
Stone Goblins | |||||
Matt Haig | Shadow Forest | ||||
Jenny Valentine | Broken Soup | ||||
Blue Sky Freedom | |||||
Marie-Louise Jensen | Between Two Seas | ||||
Oisín McGann | Ancient Appetites | ||||
2009 | Best Book | Michelle Harrison | 13 Treasures | Winner | |
Zelah Green Queen of Clean | Finalist | ||||
Marie-Louise Jensen | The Lady in the Tower | ||||
Rachel Ward | Numbers | ||||
Rob Stevens | Mapmaker's Monsters | ||||
How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant | |||||
Gnomes are Forever | |||||
Changeling | |||||
2010 | Best Book | The Great Hamster Massacre | Winner | ||
The Toymaker | Finalist | ||||
The Seven Sorcerers | |||||
Victoria Forester | The Girl Who Could Fly | ||||
Pat Walsh | The Crowfield Curse | ||||
Meteorite Strike | |||||
Love, Aubrey | |||||
Lucy Christopher | Flyaway | ||||
Laura Summers | Desperate Measures | ||||
2011 | Best Book | Artichoke Hearts | Winner | [3][4] | |
Rebecca Stead | When You Reach Me | Finalist | |||
Curtis Jobling | Wereworld: The Rise of the Wolf | ||||
The Pain Merchants | |||||
The Memory Cage | |||||
Candy Gourlay | Tall Story | ||||
Mortlock | |||||
Fantastic Frankie and the Brain-Drain | |||||
A Beautiful Lie | |||||
2012 | Overall | The Pirates Next Door | Winner | [5] | |
Fiction 5-12 | Liz Pichon | The Brilliant World of Tom Gates | Winner | ||
Mackenzie Crook | The Windvale Sprites | Finalist | [5] | ||
Muncle Trogg | |||||
Sky Hawk | |||||
Milo and the Restart Button | |||||
Alex T. Smith | Claude in the City | ||||
Picture Book | The Pirates Next Door | Winner | [5] | ||
No! | Finalist | ||||
Jon Klassen | I Want My Hat Back | ||||
and Simon Rickerty | I Don't Want to be a Pea! | ||||
Good Little Wolf | |||||
Chris Haughton | A Bit Lost | ||||
Teen | The Pirates Next Door | Winner | |||
Jenny Downham | You Against Me | Finalist | |||
Annabel Pitcher | My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece | ||||
Veronica Roth | Divergent | ||||
Ruta Sepetys | Between Shades of Gray | ||||
Being Billy | |||||
Morgan Matson | Amy and Roger's Epic Detour | ||||
2013 | Overall | Annabel Pitcher | Ketchup Clouds | Winner | |
Fiction 5-12 | R. J. Palacio | Wonder | Winner | ||
Catherine Constable | The Wolf Princess | Finalist | |||
Helen Peters | The Secret Hen House Theatre | ||||
Jim Smith | I Am Not A Loser | ||||
Geoff Rodkey | Chronicles of Egg: Deadweather and Sunrise | ||||
Jennifer Gray | Atticus Claw Breaks the Law | ||||
Picture Book | Rebecca Cobb | Lunchtime | Winner | ||
The Worst Princess | Finalist | ||||
The Journey Home | |||||
Rabbityness | |||||
Chris Haughton | Oh No, George! | ||||
Can You See Sassoon? | |||||
Teen | Annabel Pitcher | Ketchup Clouds | Winner | ||
Sarah J. Maas | Throne of Glass | Finalist | |||
Skin Deep | |||||
Rachel Hartman | Seraphina | ||||
Insignia | |||||
Geekhood: Close Encounters of the Girl Kind | |||||
2014 | Overall | Katherine Rundell | Rooftoppers | Winner | |
Fiction 5–12 | Katherine Rundell | Rooftoppers | Winner | ||
Soman Chainani | The School for Good and Evil | Finalist | |||
Piers Torday | The Last Wild | ||||
Sandra Greaves | Skull in the Wood | ||||
Emerald Fennell | Shiverton Hall | ||||
Laura Dockrill | Darcy Durdock | ||||
Picture Book | Open Very Carefully | Winner | |||
Elys Dolan | Weasels | Finalist | |||
Yasmeen Ismail | Time For Bed, Fred | ||||
The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water | |||||
Penguin in Peril | |||||
Harold Finds a Voice | |||||
Teen | Holly Smale | Geek Girl | Winner | ||
The Bone Dragon | Finalist | ||||
Dawn O'Porter | Paper Aeroplanes | ||||
Ruta Sepetys | Our of the Easy | ||||
If You Find Me | |||||
Butter | |||||
2015 | Overall | Blown Away | Winner | [6][7] | |
Fiction 5-12 | Robin Stevens | Murder Most Unladylike | Winner | ||
with Beck Moor (illus.) | Violet and the Pearl of the Orient | Finalist | |||
Anne Booth | Girl with a White Dog | ||||
Cowgirl | |||||
Boy in the Tower | |||||
Lara Williamson | A Boy Called Hope | ||||
Picture Book | Blown Away | Winner | |||
Where Bear? | Finalist | ||||
The Sea Tiger | |||||
Steve Antony | The Queen's Hat | ||||
The Dawn Chorus | |||||
Atlas of Adventures | |||||
Teen | Sally Green | Half Bad | Winner | ||
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender | Finalist | ||||
The Apple Tart of Hope | |||||
Smart | |||||
Louise O'Neill | Only Ever Yours | ||||
Dead Ends | |||||
2016 | Overall | David Solomon | My Brother is a Superhero | Winner | [8] |
Illustrated Book | David Litchfield | The Bear and the Piano | Winner | [8] | |
The Crow's Tale | Finalist | ||||
Super Happy Magic Forest | |||||
Hector and Hummingbird | |||||
David Barrow | Have You Seen Elephant? | ||||
and Migy Blanco | Cinderella's Sister and the Big Bad Wolf | ||||
Older Fiction | [[Lisa Williamson[disambiguation needed]|Lisa Williamson]] | The Art of Being Normal | Winner | [8] | |
The Sin Eater's Daughter | Finalist | [9] | |||
The Accident Season | |||||
Seed | |||||
Jandy Nelson | I'll Give You the Sun | ||||
13 Days of Midnight | |||||
Younger Fiction | David Solomon | My Brother is a Superhero | Winner | [8] | |
Witch Wars | Finalist | ||||
Katherine Woodfine | The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow | ||||
The Blackthorn Key | |||||
Darkmouth | |||||
Bird | |||||
2017 | Overall | Kiran Millwood Hargrave | The Girl of Ink and Stars | Winner | [10] |
Illustrated Book | There’s a Tiger in the Garden | Winner | |||
Tiger in a Tutu | Finalist | [11] | |||
The Journey | |||||
The Bear Who Stared | |||||
Super Stan | |||||
Life is Magic | |||||
Older Fiction | Patrice Lawrence | Orangeboy | Winner | ||
Nilanjana Roy | The Wildings | Finalist | [11] | ||
Nicola Yoon | The Sun is also a Star | ||||
Paper Butterflies | |||||
Hour of the Bees | |||||
Gavriel Savit | Anna and the Swallow Man | ||||
Younger Fiction | Kiran Millwood Hargrave | The Girl of Ink and Stars | Winner | [10] | |
Lauren Wolk | Wolf Hollow | Finalist | [11] | ||
Ross Welford | Time Travelling with a Hamster | ||||
Cogheart | |||||
Laura James | Captain Pug | ||||
Beetle Boy | |||||
2018 | Overall | Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give | Winner | [12][13] |
Illustrated Book | The Secret of Black Rock | Winner | [12] | ||
The Night Box | Finalist | ||||
Superbat | |||||
Leaf | |||||
I Really Want the Cake | |||||
Fergal is Fuming! | |||||
Older Fiction | Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give | Winner | ||
Troublemakers | Finalist | ||||
Thornhill | |||||
This Mortal Coil | |||||
The Disappearances | |||||
Ink | |||||
Younger Fiction | Jessica Townsend | Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow | Winner | ||
Who Let the Gods Out? | Finalist | ||||
The Legend of Podkin One-Ear | |||||
Lisa Thompson | The Goldfish Boy | ||||
Greg James and Chris Smith | Kid Normal | ||||
A Place Called Perfect | |||||
2019 | Overall | Onjali Q. Raúf | The Boy At The Back Of The Class | Winner | [13] |
Illustrated Book | and Jenny Løvlie | The Girl | Winner | ||
The King Who Banned the Dark | Finalist | [14] | |||
John Bond | Mini Rabbit Not Lost | ||||
Vashti Harrison | Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History | ||||
Jessica Love | Julián is a Mermaid | ||||
100 Dogs | |||||
Older Fiction | Tomi Adeyemi | Children Of Blood And Bone | Winner | ||
The Truth About Lies | Finalist | [14] | |||
Elizabeth Acevedo | The Poet X | ||||
Me Mam. Me Dad. Me. | |||||
Boy 87 | |||||
Christelle Dabos | A Winter's Promise | ||||
Younger Fiction | Onjali Q. Raúf | The Boy At The Back Of The Class | Winner | [13] | |
The Train to Impossible Places | Finalist | [14] | |||
The Mystery of the Colour Thief | |||||
[[Sophie Anderson[disambiguation needed]|Sophie Anderson]] | The House With Chicken Legs | ||||
Andy Shepherd | The Boy Who Grew Dragons | ||||
Brightstorm: A Sky-Ship Adventure | |||||
2020 | Overall | Nathan Bryon | Look Up! | Winner | [15] |
Illustrated Book | Nathan Bryon | Look Up! | Winner | [15] | |
Otto Blotter, Bird Spotter | Finalist | ||||
Kate Read | One Fox | ||||
Once Upon a Unicorn Horn | |||||
Me and My Sister | |||||
Hidden Planet | |||||
Older Fiction | Bearmouth | Winner | [15] | ||
The Million Pieces of Neena Gill | Finalist | ||||
Jemima Small Versus the Universe | |||||
Samira Ahmed | Internment | ||||
gal-dem | I Will Not Be Erased: Our stories about growing up as people of colour | ||||
Holly Jackson | A Good Girl's Guide to Murder | ||||
Younger Fiction | Sharna Jackson | High-Rise Mystery | Winner | ||
Kirsty Applebaum | The Middler | Finalist | |||
The Deepest Breath | |||||
Our Castle, the Sea | |||||
Charlie Changes Into a Chicken | |||||
Asha & the Spirit Bird | |||||
2021 | Overall | Elle McNicoll | A Kind of Spark | Winner | [16][17] |
Illustrated Book | The Grumpy Fairies | Winner | [16] | ||
Where Happiness Begins | Finalist | ||||
The Blue Giant | |||||
Freedom, We Sing | |||||
Found You | |||||
Bear Shaped | |||||
Older Fiction | Wranglestone | Winner | [16] | ||
Dean Atta | The Black Flamingo | Finalist | |||
Jordan Ifueko | Raybearer | ||||
Sophie Gonzales | Only Mostly Devastated | ||||
A. M. Dassu | Boy, Everywhere | ||||
And the Stars Were Burning Brightly | |||||
Younger Fiction | Elle McNicoll | A Kind of Spark | Winner | [16][17] | |
When Life Gives You Mangoes | Finalist | ||||
The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates | |||||
Orion Lost | |||||
Llama Out Loud! | |||||
A Clock of Stars: The shadow moth | |||||
2022 | Illustrated Book | Wolfboy | Finalist | [18] | |
The Viking Who Liked Icing | |||||
Steve Small | The Duck Who Didn’t Like Water | ||||
Out to Sea | |||||
Grandad’s Camper | |||||
Alone! | |||||
Older Fiction | Femi Fadugba | The Upper World | |||
Namina Forna | The Gilded Ones | ||||
Manjeet Mann | The Crossing | ||||
Not My Problem | |||||
Not Here to Be Liked | |||||
Angeline Boulley | Firekeeper’s Daughter | ||||
Younger Fiction | The Last Bear | ||||
Benjamin Dean | Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow | ||||
Kelly Yang | Front Desk | ||||
Children of the Quicksands | |||||
Mark Bradley | Bumble and Snug and the Angry Pirates | ||||
Amari and the Night Brothers |
References[]
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External links[]
- Official Waterstones Children's Book Prize site – dedicated to the latest winners
Categories:
- British children's literary awards
- Young adult literature awards
- Picture book awards
- Awards established in 2005
- 2005 establishments in the United Kingdom