The Teenage Book Prize review | Children's Books - Times Online
Booktrust Teenage Prize Shortlist
The Medici Seal by Theresa Breslin
Leaving Poppy by Kate Cann
The Penalty by Mal Peet
Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
Just in Case by Meg Rosoff
Awards: October 2007 Archives
Governor-General's Awards for Children's Literature : Shortlist
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Hugh Brewster: Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a Painting: Kids Can Press
Christopher Paul Curtis: Elijah of Buxton: Scholastic Press
Iain Lawrence: Gemini Summer: Delacorte/Random House
John Wilson: The Alchemist's Dream: Key Porter Books
Eva Wiseman: Kanada: Tundra Books
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Wallace Edwards: The Painted Circus: Kids Can Press
Joan Fitzgerald: The Blue Hippopotamus ( text Phoebe Gilman): North Winds Press/Scholastic
Jirina Marton: Marja's Skis: (text: Jean E. Pendziwol) Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Dusan Petricic: My New Shirt ( text Carl Fagan) Tundra Books
Duncan Weller: The Boy From the Sun: Simply Read Books
TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
Sarah Ellis : Odd Man Out : Groundwood Books
Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction
Jan Thornhill: I Found a Dead Bird: The Kids' Guide to the Cycle of Life and Death: Maple Tree Press
Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award
Sara O'Leary: illustrated Julie Morstad : When You Were Small
Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Eve Wiseman: Kanada: Tundra Books
This year's winner of the Guardian children's fiction prize [Jenny Valentine - for Finding Violet Park] tells Julia Eccleshare how she got inside the skin of her teenage protagonist...
The shortlists are as follows:
The Most Fun Story with Pictures:
Melrose and Croc Together at Christmas by Emma Chichester Clark
Charlie Cook's Favourite Books by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum by Andy Stanton and David Tazzyman
Best Book with Facts:
Why is Snot Green? by Glen Murphy
The Worst Children's Jobs in History by Tony Robinson
A Little Guide to Wild Flowers by Charlotte Voake
The Book I Couldn't Put Down:
Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Bad Spy's Guide by Pete Johnson
The Outlaw Varjak Paw by SF Said and Dave McKean
