Awards: September 2006 Archives
Philip Reeve has won the 2006 Guardian Children's book Prize. The other shortlisted authors were Frank Cottrel Boyce, Patrick Cave and Frances Hardynge, all of whom attended the prize announcement at the Guardian Newsroom on Thursday 28th September. Patrick Cave seems to have avoided the ACHUKA camera and hence is not featured in the gallery.
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Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards 2006 in association with the Irish Writers' Centre
The shortlist:
Glen Dimplex Children’s Book New Writers Award
Sophie and the Albino Camel Stephen Davies
Style Sisters – Friends First Liz Elwes
The Diamond of Drury Lane Julia Golding
Rewind Paul Manship
Katie Milk Solves Crimes and So On Annie Caulfield
The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilte Sian Pattenden
The winners of the inaugural Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards will be announced at a presentation ceremony on 2 November 2006 at The Four Seasons Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
Shortlists for the three categories in the Blue Peter Book Awards 2006
The Book I Couldn’t Put Down
The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo
Blood Fever by Charlie Higson
GRK and the Pelotti Gang by Joshua Doder
The Best Book with Facts
Connor’s Eco Den by Pippa Goodhart
Poo by Nicola Davies and Neal Layton
Spud Goes Green by Giles Thaxton
The Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud
Guess Who’s Coming for Dinner? by John Kelly and Cathy Tincknell
Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers
Traction Man is Here by Mini Grey
Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Far and wide
The four books shortlisted for this year's Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (to be announced on Septemeber 28th) are:
Blown Away by Patrick Cave
Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Fly By Night by Frances Hardinge
A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve
BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Belfast mum in literary limelight
The winning book in the first Waterstone's/Faber first novel award has just been published:
[Sarah Wray] The Belfast woman who dreamed of making her name as a children's novelist was breaking open the champage on Monday, at her own book launch party. Her novel, The Forbidden Room, was chosen from 3,500 entries across the United Kingdom in a competition organised by Waterstones and Faber & Faber to find the next big children's novelist.
Iranian nominee for Swedish Astrid Lindgren award Janet Mikhaiili dies at 70
Iranian nominee for Swedish Astrid Lindgren award Janet Mikhaiili dies at 70
TEHRAN, Sept. 4 (Mehr News Agency) -- Iranian children's book illustrator Janet Mikhaiili died of cerebral apoplexy at the age of 70 at her home on September 2.
Mikhaiili was one of four Iranians nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2007, which will be presented by the Swedish government in May at the Skansen Open-Air Museum in Stockholm, but she lost the chance, because the prize is only awarded to living people. ...
