Previous blue peter book award winners include onjali rauf, cressida cowell. All the key uk childrens book awards 2019 shortlists and winners. Rob biddulph, winner of the waterstones childrens book prize 2015. Congratulations to rob biddulph, this years overall winner of the waterstones children s book prize with his wonderful picture book, blown away the waterstones children s book prize is one of the biggest children s book awards in the country. Rob biddulphs blown away wins the 2015 waterstones. Picture book wins 2015 waterstones childrens book prize. Watch video interviews with the waterstones childrens. Waterstones childrens book prize 2016 younger fiction and overall winner. Rob biddulph is 2015 waterstones winner books for keeps. It is our enormous pleasure to share with you our waterstones childrens book prize shortlist for 2020. Biddulph, the art director at the observer magazine, will be taking home. Now in its 11th year, this years shortlists seem to have a detective theme with six titles in which children are left to their own devices to solve mysteries, reminiscent of old favourites like enid blytons famous five and the nancy.
Rob biddulph wins waterstones childrens book prize 2015. Sharna jackson and liz hyder shortlisted for waterstones childrens book prize. Find out everything thats going on with the 11th waterstones childrens. Werewolf club rules was the winner of the 2015 clippa poetry award and his. All the key uk childrens book awards 2020 shortlists and winners. The waterstones children s book prize is an annual award given to a work of children s literature published during the previous year. This years selections as always chosen by our booksellers mark our continuing commitment to championing the finest new talent in childrens writing and illustration today. Our own waterstones book of the year and waterstones children s book prize aside, we work closely with a number of other award bodies to bring you results as they happen, keeping you at the tip of the spear for the very latest in vital, awardwinning news. The books are chosen and judged by waterstones booksellers across the country who then whittle down the thousands of children s books published each. The waterstones childrens book prize champions new and emerging talent within three categories.
It is only the second picture book to win the prize. Browse recent and previous award winners, and the shortlist. The tale of a misplaced penguin scoops the overall prize. Waterstones childrens younger fiction and the overall.
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. We sent teen site member britishbiblioholic to the waterstones childrens book prize find out how she fared and watch her video interviews with winners rob biddulph, sally green and robin stevens. Blown away, a picture book by rob biddulph, has won the 2015 waterstones childrens book prize, it has been announced. The waterstones childrens book prize is an annual award given to a work of childrens. For the first time since the prize was split into three categories in 2012, all the winners are debuts. Observer magazine art director rob biddulph has been named as the overall winner of the 2015 waterstones children s book prize, with his book blown away. Six books will compete within each category to be crowned category winner, with prize money of. Raufs the boy at the back of the class, already being hailed a modern classic, which one of our 2020 selection will follow in its. The blue peter book awards 2020 celebrates childrens books published in the last. Nearly 20 new and upcoming childrens authors are battling for the chance to join such illustrious past winners of the waterstones childrens books prize as sita brahmachari, jonny duddle.