Category: Awards

There May Be A Castle nominated for Carnegie

Posted on November 6, 2017 by - Awards, Books

CILIP Carnegie

There May Be A Castle has been nominated for a CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018, one of a 121 titles nominated for this 80 year old award.

The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded annually by CILIP for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.

Previous winners of the CILIP Carnegie Medal include Neil Gaiman, Sally Gardner, Patrick Ness, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and C.S. Lewis.

Librarians all over the country begin reading the nominated books now in order to make a Longlist announcement on 15 February 2018, with the shortlist announced on 15th March, and the winner revealed on 18th June 2018.

I am thrilled to be listed along with so many other wonderful books and authors – good luck everybody!

 

Costa Book Award Judges announced.

Posted on September 29, 2017 by - Awards

The judges for this year’s Costa Book Award have been announced…and I’m one of them.

Along with Sanchita Basu De Sarkar from the Children’s Bookshop in Muswell Hill and Fiona Noble from The Bookseller, I’ll be one of the category judges for the Costa Children’s Book Award.

We’ve been spending the summer reading, and I mean READING. This is a photo of just some of the forty plus children’s and YA titles I’ve been lucky enough to read this summer.

Our shortlist is will be revealed on Tuesday 21st November 2017…it’s going to be a very, very difficult decision.

The Wild Beyond shortlisted for Islington Book Award

Posted on February 21, 2017 by - Awards, Books

I was so proud to go to the Arsenal Emirates Stadium this afternoon, for a vey special ceremony, with hundreds of local Islington school children – the first ever Islington Primary Schools Book of the Year Award!

Created by the amazing team at Islington Libraries, using a road map reading ladder, this prize has got thousands of children reading dozens of truly amazing books. And I got to meet some of the amazing authors also shortlisted at the ceremony today – Pamela Butchart, Shane Hegarty, and Susan Moore! Pamela won, deservedly so, for her brilliant “Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies” – which is also illustrated by Thomas Flintham who illustrated The Wild Books.

It was particularly special for me as until two years ago, I had lived in Islington all my adult life, and all of the Wild books were written there – just a few minutes away from the Stadium!