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. The prize is awarded by British book retailer Waterstones.
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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||
| Julie Hearn | The Merrybegot | ||||
| Shannon Hale | The Goose Girl | ||||
| Ann Halam | Siberia | ||||
| Ellen Potter | Olivia Kidney | ||||
| Kes Gray | Nelly the Monster Sitter | ||||
| Bowering Sivers | 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 | ||||
| Heather Vogel Frederick | 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 | ||||
| Christopher Russell | Smugglers | ||||
| Philip Caveney | Sebastian Darke | ||||
| L. Brittney | Nathan Fox: Dangerous Times | ||||
| Michael Broad | Jake Cake: The Werewolf Teacher | ||||
| J. A. Henderson | Bunker 10 | ||||
| Siobhan Dowd | A Swift Pure Cry | ||||
| 2008 | Best Book | Sally Nicholls | Ways to Live Forever | Winner | |
| Emily Bearn | Tumtum and Nutmeg | Finalist | |||
| Sam Enthoven | TIM Defender of the Earth | ||||
| David Melling | Stone Goblins | ||||
| Matt Haig | Shadow Forest | ||||
| Jenny Valentine | Broken Soup | ||||
| Gabrielle Halberstam | Blue Sky Freedom | ||||
| Marie-Louise Jensen | Between Two Seas | ||||
| Oisín McGann | Ancient Appetites | ||||
| 2009 | Best Book | Michelle Harrison | 13 Treasures | Winner | |
| Vanessa Curtis | Zelah Green Queen of Clean | Finalist | |||
| Marie-Louise Jensen | The Lady in the Tower | ||||
| Rachel Ward | Numbers | ||||
| Rob Stevens | Mapmaker's Monsters | ||||
| Elen Caldecott | How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant | ||||
| Ceci Jenkinson | Gnomes are Forever | ||||
| Steve Feasey | Changeling | ||||
| 2010 | Best Book | Katie Davies | The Great Hamster Massacre | Winner | |
| Jeremy De Quidt | The Toymaker | Finalist | |||
| Caro King | The Seven Sorcerers | ||||
| Victoria Forester | The Girl Who Could Fly | ||||
| Pat Walsh | The Crowfield Curse | ||||
| A. G. Taylor | Meteorite Strike | ||||
| Suzanne Lafleur | Love, Aubrey | ||||
| Lucy Christopher | Flyaway | ||||
| Laura Summers | Desperate Measures | ||||
| 2011 | Best Book | Sita Brahmachari | Artichoke Hearts | Winner | [3][4] |
| Rebecca Stead | When You Reach Me | Finalist | |||
| Curtis Jobling | Wereworld: The Rise of the Wolf | ||||
| Janice Hardy | The Pain Merchants | ||||
| Ruth Eastham | The Memory Cage | ||||
| Candy Gourlay | Tall Story | ||||
| Jon Mayhew | Mortlock | ||||
| Anna Kemp | Fantastic Frankie and the Brain-Drain | ||||
| Irfan Master | A Beautiful Lie | ||||
| 2012 | Overall | Jonny Duddle | 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] | ||
| Janet Foxley | Muncle Trogg | ||||
| Gill Lewis | Sky Hawk | ||||
| Alan Silberberg | Milo and the Restart Button | ||||
| Alex T. Smith | Claude in the City | ||||
| Picture Book | Jonny Duddle | The Pirates Next Door | Winner | [5] | |
| Marta Altés | No! | Finalist | |||
| Jon Klassen | I Want My Hat Back | ||||
| Ann Bonwill and Simon Rickerty | I Don't Want to be a Pea! | ||||
| Nadia Shireen | Good Little Wolf | ||||
| Chris Haughton | A Bit Lost | ||||
| Teen | Jonny Duddle | 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 | ||||
| Phil Earle | 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 | ||
| Anna Kemp | The Worst Princess | Finalist | |||
| Frann Preston-Gannon | The Journey Home | ||||
| Jo Empson | Rabbityness | ||||
| Chris Haughton | Oh No, George! | ||||
| Sam Usher | Can You See Sassoon? | ||||
| Teen | Annabel Pitcher | Ketchup Clouds | Winner | ||
| Sarah J. Maas | Throne of Glass | Finalist | |||
| Laura Jarratt | Skin Deep | ||||
| Rachel Hartman | Seraphina | ||||
| S. J. Kincaid | Insignia | ||||
| Andy Robb | 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 | Nicola O'Byrne | Open Very Carefully | Winner | ||
| Elys Dolan | Weasels | Finalist | |||
| Yasmeen Ismail | Time For Bed, Fred | ||||
| Gemma Merino | The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water | ||||
| Helen Hancocks | Penguin in Peril | ||||
| Courtney Dicmas | Harold Finds a Voice | ||||
| Teen | Holly Smale | Geek Girl | Winner | ||
| Alexia Casale | The Bone Dragon | Finalist | |||
| Dawn O'Porter | Paper Aeroplanes | ||||
| Ruta Sepetys | Out of the Easy | ||||
| Emily Murdoch | If You Find Me | ||||
| Erin Lange | Butter | ||||
| 2015 | Overall | Rob Biddulph | Blown Away | Winner | [6][7] |
| Fiction 5-12 | Robin Stevens | Murder Most Unladylike | Winner | ||
| Harriet Whitehorn with Beck Moor (illus.) | Violet and the Pearl of the Orient | Finalist | |||
| Anne Booth | Girl with a White Dog | ||||
| GR Gemin | Cowgirl | ||||
| Polly Ho-Yen | Boy in the Tower | ||||
| Lara Williamson | A Boy Called Hope | ||||
| Picture Book | Rob Biddulph | Blown Away | Winner | ||
| Sophy Henn | Where Bear? | Finalist | |||
| Victoria Turnbull | The Sea Tiger | ||||
| Steve Antony | The Queen's Hat | ||||
| Suzanne Barton | The Dawn Chorus | ||||
| Lucy Letherland | Atlas of Adventures | ||||
| Teen | Sally Green | Half Bad | Winner | ||
| Leslye Walton | The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender | Finalist | |||
| Sarah Moore Fitzgerald | The Apple Tart of Hope | ||||
| Kim Skater | Smart | ||||
| Louise O'Neill | Only Ever Yours | ||||
| Erin Lange | Dead Ends | ||||
| 2016 | Overall | David Solomon | My Brother is a Superhero | Winner | [8] |
| Illustrated Book | David Litchfield | The Bear and the Piano | Winner | [8] | |
| Naomi Howarth | The Crow's Tale | Finalist | |||
| Matty Long | Super Happy Magic Forest | ||||
| Nicholas John Frith | Hector and Hummingbird | ||||
| David Barrow | Have You Seen Elephant? | ||||
| Lorraine Carey and Migy Blanco | Cinderella's Sister and the Big Bad Wolf | ||||
| Older Fiction | Lisa Williamson | The Art of Being Normal | Winner | [8] | |
| Melinda Salisbury | The Sin Eater's Daughter | Finalist | [9] | ||
| Moïra Fowley-Doyle | The Accident Season | ||||
| Lisa Heathfield | Seed | ||||
| Jandy Nelson | I'll Give You the Sun | ||||
| Leo Hunt | 13 Days of Midnight | ||||
| Younger Fiction | David Solomon | My Brother is a Superhero | Winner | [8] | |
| Sibéal Pounder | Witch Wars | Finalist | |||
| Katherine Woodfine | The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow | ||||
| Kevin Sands | The Blackthorn Key | ||||
| Shane Hegarty | Darkmouth | ||||
| Crystal Chan | Bird | ||||
| 2017 | Overall | Kiran Millwood Hargrave | The Girl of Ink and Stars | Winner | [10] |
| Illustrated Book | Lizzy Stewart | There’s a Tiger in the Garden | Winner | ||
| Fabi Santiago | Tiger in a Tutu | Finalist | [11] | ||
| Francesca Sanna | The Journey | ||||
| Duncan Beedie | The Bear Who Stared | ||||
| Matt Robertson | Super Stan | ||||
| Meg McLaren | Life is Magic | ||||
| Older Fiction | Patrice Lawrence | Orangeboy | Winner | ||
| Nilanjana Roy | The Wildings | Finalist | [11] | ||
| Nicola Yoon | The Sun is also a Star | ||||
| Lisa Heathfield | Paper Butterflies | ||||
| Lindsay Eager | 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 | ||||
| Peter Bunzl | Cogheart | ||||
| Laura James | Captain Pug | ||||
| MG Leonard | Beetle Boy | ||||
| 2018 | Overall | Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give | Winner | [12][13] |
| Illustrated Book | Joe Todd-Stanton | The Secret of Black Rock | Winner | [12] | |
| Louise Greig | The Night Box | Finalist | |||
| Matt Carr | Superbat | ||||
| Sandra Dieckmann | Leaf | ||||
| Simon Philip | I Really Want the Cake | ||||
| Robert Starling | Fergal is Fuming! | ||||
| Older Fiction | Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give | Winner | ||
| Catherine Barter | Troublemakers | Finalist | |||
| Pam Smy | Thornhill | ||||
| Emily Suvada | This Mortal Coil | ||||
| Emily Bain Murphy | The Disappearances | ||||
| Alice Broadway | Ink | ||||
| Younger Fiction | Jessica Townsend | Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow | Winner | ||
| Maz Evans | Who Let the Gods Out? | Finalist | |||
| Kieran Larwood | The Legend of Podkin One-Ear | ||||
| Lisa Thompson | The Goldfish Boy | ||||
| Greg James and Chris Smith | Kid Normal | ||||
| Helena Duggan | A Place Called Perfect | ||||
| 2019 | Overall | Onjali Q. Raúf | The Boy At The Back Of The Class | Winner | [13] |
| Illustrated Book | Lauren Ace and Jenny Løvlie | The Girl | Winner | ||
| Emily Haworth-Booth | 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 | ||||
| Michael Whaite | 100 Dogs | ||||
| Older Fiction | Tomi Adeyemi | Children Of Blood And Bone | Winner | ||
| Tracy Darnton | The Truth About Lies | Finalist | [14] | ||
| Elizabeth Acevedo | The Poet X | ||||
| Malcolm Duffy | Me Mam. Me Dad. Me. | ||||
| Ele Fountain | Boy 87 | ||||
| Christelle Dabos | A Winter's Promise | ||||
| Younger Fiction | Onjali Q. Raúf | The Boy At The Back Of The Class | Winner | [13] | |
| P.G. Bell | The Train to Impossible Places | Finalist | [14] | ||
| Ewa Jozefkowicz | The Mystery of the Colour Thief | ||||
| Sophie Anderson | The House With Chicken Legs | ||||
| Andy Shepherd | The Boy Who Grew Dragons | ||||
| Vashti Hardy | Brightstorm: A Sky-Ship Adventure | ||||
| 2020 | Overall | Nathan Bryon | Look Up! | Winner | [15] |
| Illustrated Book | Nathan Bryon | Look Up! | Winner | [15] | |
| Graham Carter | Otto Blotter, Bird Spotter | Finalist | |||
| Kate Read | One Fox | ||||
| Beatrice Blue | Once Upon a Unicorn Horn | ||||
| Rose Robbins | Me and My Sister | ||||
| Ben Rothery | Hidden Planet | ||||
| Older Fiction | Liz Hyder | Bearmouth | Winner | [15] | |
| Emma Smith-Barton | The Million Pieces of Neena Gill | Finalist | |||
| Tamsin Winter | 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 | |||
| Meg Grehan | The Deepest Breath | ||||
| Lucy Strange | Our Castle, the Sea | ||||
| Sam Copeland | Charlie Changes Into a Chicken | ||||
| Jasbinder Bilan | Asha & the Spirit Bird | ||||
| 2021 | Overall | Elle McNicoll | A Kind of Spark | Winner | [16][17] |
| Illustrated Book | Bethan Stevens | The Grumpy Fairies | Winner | [16] | |
| Eva Eland | Where Happiness Begins | Finalist | |||
| Katie Cottle | The Blue Giant | ||||
| Amyra Leon | Freedom, We Sing | ||||
| Devon Holzwarth | Found You | ||||
| Dawn Coulter-Cruttenden | Bear Shaped | ||||
| Older Fiction | Darren Charlton | Wranglestone | Winner | [16] | |
| Dean Atta | The Black Flamingo | Finalist | |||
| Jordan Ifueko | Raybearer | ||||
| Sophie Gonzales | Only Mostly Devastated | ||||
| A. M. Dassu | Boy, Everywhere | ||||
| Danielle Jawando | And the Stars Were Burning Brightly | ||||
| Younger Fiction | Elle McNicoll | A Kind of Spark | Winner | [16][17] | |
| Kereen Getten | When Life Gives You Mangoes | Finalist | |||
| Jenny Pearson | The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates | ||||
| Alastair Chisholm | Orion Lost | ||||
| Annabelle Sami | Llama Out Loud! | ||||
| Francesca Gibbons | A Clock of Stars: The shadow moth | ||||
| 2022 | Illustrated Book | Andy Harkness | Wolfboy | Finalist | [18] |
| Lu Fraser | The Viking Who Liked Icing | ||||
| Steve Small | The Duck Who Didn’t Like Water | ||||
| Helen Kellock | Out to Sea | ||||
| Harry Woodgate | Grandad’s Camper | ||||
| Barr Falls | Alone! | ||||
| Older Fiction | Femi Fadugba | The Upper World | |||
| Namina Forna | The Gilded Ones | ||||
| Manjeet Mann | The Crossing | ||||
| Ciara Smyth | Not My Problem | ||||
| Michelle Quach | Not Here to Be Liked | ||||
| Angeline Boulley | Firekeeper’s Daughter | ||||
| Younger Fiction | Hannah Gold | The Last Bear | |||
| Benjamin Dean | Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow | ||||
| Kelly Yang | Front Desk | ||||
| Efua Traoré | Children of the Quicksands | ||||
| Mark Bradley | Bumble and Snug and the Angry Pirates | ||||
| B. B. Alston | Amari and the Night Brothers |
References
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External links
- Official Waterstones Children's Book Prize site – dedicated to the latest winners
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