Here is the shortlist for the NASEN & TES Special Education Needs Children's Book Award 2005:
Caged In Chaos: A Dyspraxic Guide To Breaking Free by Victoria Biggs
Need To Know: ADHD by Philippa Pigache
Adam's Alternative Sports Day: AN Asperger's Diary by Jude Welton
This year's prestigious Guardian Children's Fiction Prize has been won by Kate Thompson for The New Policeman (Bodley Head), a modern fairy tale set on the west coast of Ireland.
Kate Thompson lives in Ireland and is the daughter of the historian EP Thompson and the educationist Dorothy Thompson. She will be interviewed in the Guardian Review tomorrow, when the paper will also publish a special Children's Books supplement in association with the Book Trust.
The winner was chosen from a shortlist comprising: Julie Hearn for The Merrybegot (Oxford); Alex Shearer for The Hunted (Macmillan) and Tim Wynne-Jones for The Boy in the Burning House (Usborne).
The Guardian's Children's Fiction Prize was founded in 1967. Past winners include Philip Pullman, Anne Fine, Leon Garfield, Ted Hughes, Nina Bawden, Jacqueline Wilson and Mark Haddon. The prize is unique in that it is judged by other writers. The winner of the prize receives a cheque for £1,500.
2005 Eleanor Farjeon Award
The 2005 Eleanor Farjeon Award Ceremony will be held on Wednesday 28th September at the Hall of India, The Royal Over-Seas League, Park Place, St James' Street, London (nearest tube: Green Park) 6.30-8.30 p.m. (speeches at 7.30 p.m.).
The nominees for this prestigious award are Sharon Berry, Malorie Blackman, Dick Bruna and Kimberley Reynolds.
The winner will be announced on the night.
Tickets for this event can be purchased on the door. Cheques should be made payable to Children's Book Circle.
Members: £10 per person
Non-Members: £15 per person
Refreshments will be served.
The 2005 award is generously sponsored by the Eleanor Farjeon estate
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The Guardian has announced the shortlist for its annual Children's Fiction Prize:
This year's judges are Jan Mark, Meg Rosoff and Chris Riddell. The winner of the prize will be announced on October 1 2005.
Scot wins top Eco award for children's book - Evening Times
Scot wins top Eco award for children's book A WRITER from Glasgow has been highly commended for a novel which introduces children to the importance of the environment. Author Julie Bertagna won £500 in the first Eco Prize for book Exodus. The judges said: "The book illustrates the personal and social as well as environmental catastrophes threatened by global warming and sea level rise."
