The winner of the Best Young Adult and Best Juvenile categories in the Edgar Allan Poe Awards are:
Acceleration by Graham McNamee (YA)
Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (J)
Awards: April 2004 Archives
Both the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals are awarded annually by CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals). The 2003 winners will be announced at the British Library on Friday 9 July 2004.
For more information about the awards visit www.ckg.org.uk
THE CILIP KATE GREENAWAY MEDAL SHORTLIST
ANTHONY BROWNE The Shape Game
Doubleday Age range: 7+
ISBN: 0385601360
ALEXIS DEACON Beegu
Hutchinson Age range: 3+
ISBN: 0091768292
DEBI GLIORI Always and Forever
(Text by Alan Durant)
Doubleday Age range: 3+
ISBN: 038560503X
MINI GREY The Pea and the Princess
Red Fox Age range: 6+
ISBN: 0099432331
SHIRLEY HUGHES Ella?s Big Chance
The Bodley Head Age range: 6+
ISBN: 0370327659
DAVE McKEAN The Wolves in the Walls
(Text by Neil Gaiman)
Bloomsbury Age range: 9+
ISBN: 0747569533
BEE WILLEY Bob Robber and Dancing Jane
(Text by Andrew Matthews)
Jonathan Cape Age range: 7+
ISBN: 0224064657
CHRIS WORMELL Two Frogs
Red Fox Age range: 5+
ISBN: 0099438623
THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL SHORTLIST
DAVID ALMOND The Fire Eaters
Hodder Children?s Books Age range: 10+
ISBN: 0340773820
JENNIFER DONNELLY A Gathering Light
Bloomsbury Age range: 12+
ISBN: 0747563047
MARK HADDON The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
David Fickling Books Age range: 13+
ISBN: 0099456761
ELIZABETH LAIRD The Garbage King
Macmillan Age range: 10+
ISBN: 0330415026
MICHAEL MORPURGO Private Peaceful
Collins Age range: 10+
ISBN: 0007150067
LINDA NEWBERY Sisterland
David Fickling Books Age range: 13+
ISBN: 038560470X
Locus Online News: Nebula Awards Winners
Neil Gaiman's Coraline has won a Nebula Award for best novella. The awards were announced at a banquet Saturday evening, April 17, in Seattle, Washington.
Nottingham Childrens Book Award
Very belatedly, the results of the 2004 Nottingham Children's Book Awards...
Garth Nix has triumphed at the prestigious Aurealis Awards for fiction, winning awards in 3 of the 5 categories. The Awards recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror writers and were presented at a special ceremony in Perth earlier this week.
Abhorsen, the third book in Nix?s Old Kingdom trilogy, was the Winner of the Fantasy Category and Joint Winner (with Dragonkeeper by Carole Wilkinson) of the Young Adult category. Abhorsen was published in UK a fortnight ago by HarperCollins Children?s Books. It is the 2nd best-selling Children's hardback fiction title this week.
Mister Monday, the first in his exciting Keys To The Kingdom series, which published in UK in January by HarperCollins Children?s Books, was voted Winner of the Children?s (8-12) category. Grim Tuesday, the second book in the series, comes out in June.
The Andersen Jury of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) has announced that Martin Waddell (Ireland) is the winner of the 2004 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award and Max Velthuijs (The Netherlands) is the winner of the 2004 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration.
MARTIN WADDELL
Channel4 BookBox Page
Teacher Resource File
'Writer To Reader' - ALAN Review
Jubilee Books Interview
MAX VELTHUIJS
Andersen website profile
Bibliographical info.
Dutch page, with photo
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Award for Beckham's fast-selling life story
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon won the children's book of the year and the literary fiction awards.
The British Book Awards are nominated and judged by a panel of 400 publishers, wholesalers and booksellers, followed by a telephone vote from the public.
[Full list of nominations and winners.]
The awards, also known as The Nibbies, were presented last night and, for the first time, will be shown on Channel 4 on 9 April, hosted by television presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan.
