Costa Book Award for Children's Book
Annual literary award for debut novels
The Costa Book Award for Children's Book, formerly known as the Whitbread Award (1971–2005), was an annual literary award for children's books, part of the Costa Book Awards, which were discontinued in 2022, the 2021 awards being the last made.[1]
Recipients
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1972 | Rumer Godden | The Diddakoi | Winner | |
1973 | Alan Aldridge and William Plomer | The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast | Winner | |
1974 | Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake | How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen | Winner | |
Jill Paton Walsh | The Emperor's Winding Sheet | Winner | ||
1975 | No award presented in 1975 | |||
1976 | Penelope Lively | A Stitch in Time | Winner | |
1977 | Shelagh Macdonald | No End to Yesterday | Winner | |
1978 | Philippa Pearce | The Battle of Bubble & Squeak | Winner | |
1979 | Peter Dickinson | Tulku | Winner | |
1980 | Leon Garfield | John Diamond | Winner | |
1981 | Jane Gardam | The Hollow Land | Winner | |
1982 | W. J. Corbett | The Song of Pentecost | Winner | |
1983 | Roald Dahl | The Witches | Winner | |
1984 | Barbara Willard | The Queen of the Pharisees' Children | Winner | |
1985 | Janni Howker | The Nature of the Beast | Winner | |
1986 | Andrew Taylor | The Coal House | Winner | |
1987 | Geraldine McCaughrean | A Little Lower than the Angels | Winner | |
1988 | Judy Allen | Awaiting Developments | Winner | |
1989 | Hugh Scott | Why Weeps the Brogan | Winner | |
1990 | Peter Dickinson | AK | Winner | |
1991 | Diana Hendry | Harvey Angell | Winner | |
1992 | Gillian Cross | The Great Elephant Chase | Winner | |
1993 | Anne Fine | Flour Babies | Winner | |
1994 | Geraldine McCaughrean | Gold Dust | Winner | |
1995 | Michael Morpurgo | The Wreck of the Zanzibar | Winner | |
Elizabeth Arnold | The Parsley Parcel | Shortlist | ||
Philip Ridley | Kasper in the Glitter | |||
1996 | Anne Fine | The Tulip Touch | Winner | |
Russell Hoban | The Trokeville Way | Shortlist | ||
Geraldine McCaughrean | Plundering Paradise | |||
Philip Pullman | Clockwork or All Wound Up | |||
1997 | Andrew Norriss | Aquila | Winner | |
Alan Temperley | Harry and the Wrinklies | Shortlist | ||
Sharon Creech | Chasing Redbird | |||
Melvin Burgess | Junk | |||
1998 | David Almond | Skellig | Winner | |
Robert Swindells | Abomination | Shortlist | ||
J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | |||
James Riordan | Sweet Clarinet | |||
1999 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Winner | |
Carol Ann Duffy | Meeting Midnight | Shortlist | ||
Michael Morpurgo | Kensuke's Kingdom | |||
Jacqueline Wilson | The Illustrated Mum | |||
2000 | Jamila Gavin | Coram Boy | Winner | |
David Almond | Heaven Eyes | Shortlist | ||
Kevin Crossley-Holland | The Seeing Stone | |||
Adéle Geras | Troy | |||
2001 | Philip Pullman | The Amber Spyglass | Winner | |
Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl | Shortlist | ||
Eva Ibbotson | Journey to the River Sea | |||
Terry Jones | The Lady and the Squire | |||
2002 | Hilary McKay | Saffy's Angel | Winner | |
Julie Bertagna | Exodus | Shortlist | ||
Celia Rees | Sorceress | |||
Philip Reeve | Mortal Engines | |||
2003 | David Almond | The Fire-Eaters | Winner | |
Catherine Fisher | The Oracle | Shortlist | ||
Michael Morpurgo | Private Peaceful | |||
Jeanne Willis | Naked Without a Hat | [3] | ||
2004 | Geraldine McCaughrean | Not the End of the World | Winner | |
Anne Cassidy | Looking for JJ | Shortlist | ||
Meg Rosoff | How I Live Now | |||
Ann Turnbull | No Shame, No Fear | |||
2005 | Kate Thompson | The New Policeman | Winner | |
Frank Cottrell Boyce | Framed | Shortlist | ||
Geraldine McCaughrean | The White Darkness | |||
Hilary McKay | Permanent Rose | |||
2006 | Linda Newbery | Set in Stone | Winner | |
David Almond | Clay | Shortlist | [4] | |
Julia Golding | The Diamond of Drury Lane | [4] | ||
Meg Rosoff | Just in Case | [4] | ||
2007 | Ann Kelley | The Bower Bird | Winner | [5] |
Elizabeth Laird | Crusade | Shortlist | ||
Meg Rosoff | What I Was | |||
Marcus Sedgwick | Blood Red Snow White | |||
2008 | Michelle Magorian | Just Henry | Winner | [6] |
Keith Gray | Ostrich Boys | Shortlist | ||
Saci Lloyd | The Carbon Diaries: 2015 | |||
Jenny Valentine | Broken Soup | |||
2009 | Patrick Ness | The Ask and the Answer | Winner | [7] |
Siobhan Dowd | Solace of the Road | Shortlist | ||
Mary Hoffman | Troubadour | |||
Anna Perera | Guantanamo Boy | |||
2010 | Jason Wallace | Out of Shadows | Winner | [8] |
Lucy Christopher | Flyaway | Shortlist | [9] | |
Sharon Dogar | Annexed | [9] | ||
Jonathan Stroud | Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon | [9] | ||
2011 | Moira Young | Blood Red Road | Winner | [10] |
Martyn Bedford | Flip | Shortlist | [11] | |
Frank Cottrell Boyce | The Unforgotten Coat | [11] | ||
Lissa Evans | Small Change for Stuart | [11] | ||
2012 | Sally Gardner | Maggot Moon | Winner | [12] |
Diana Hendry | The Seeing | Shortlist | ||
Hayley Long | What’s Up with Jody Barton? | |||
Dave Shelton | A Boy and a Bear in a Boat | |||
2013 | Chris Riddell | Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse | Winner | [13][14] |
Ross Montgomery | Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door | Shortlist | [15] | |
Sarah Naughton | The Hanged Man Rises | |||
Elizabeth Wein | Rose Under Fire | |||
2014 | Kate Saunders | Five Children on the Western Front | Winner | [16][17] |
Simon Mason | Running Girl | Shortlist | [18] | |
Michael Morpurgo | Listen to the Moon | |||
Marcus Sedgwick | The Ghosts of Heaven | |||
2015 | Frances Hardinge | The Lie Tree | Winner | [19] |
Hayley Long | Sophie Someone | Shortlist | [20] | |
Sally Nicholls | An Island of Our Own | [20] | ||
Andrew Norriss | Jessica's Ghost | [20] | ||
2016 | Brian Conaghan | The Bombs That Brought Us Together | Winner | [21] |
Ross Welford | Time Travelling With a Hamster | Shortlist | [22] | |
Francesca Simon | The Monstrous Child | [22] | ||
2017 | Katherine Rundell | The Explorer | Winner | [23] |
Sarah Crossan | Moonrise | Shortlist | [24] | |
Lissa Evans | Wed Wabbit | [24] | ||
Millwood Hargrave | The Island at the End of Everything | [24] | ||
Katherine Rundell | The Explorers | [24] | ||
2018 | Hilary McKay | The Skylarks' War | Winner | [25][26] |
David Almond | The Colour of the Sun | Shortlist | [27] | |
Candy Gourlay | Bone Talk | [27] | ||
Matt Killeen | Orphan Monster Spy | [27] | ||
2019 | Jasbinder Bilan | Asha & the Spirit Bird | Winner | [28] |
Malorie Blackman | Crossfire | Shortlist | [29] | |
Nicholas Bowling | In the Shadow of Heroes | [29] | ||
Jenny Downham | Furious Thing | [29] | ||
2020 | Natasha Farrant | Voyage of the Sparrowhawk | Winner | [30] |
Darren Charlton | Wranglestone | Shortlist | [31] | |
Jenny Pearson | The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates | [31] | ||
Meg Rosoff | The Great Godden | [31] | ||
2021 | Manjeet Mann | The Crossing | Winner | [32] |
Anna Goodall | Maggie Blue and the Dark World | Shortlist | [33] | |
Ross Montgomery | The Midnight Guardians | [33] | ||
Helen Rutter | The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh | [33] |
References
- ^ Barnett, David (10 June 2022). "Costa book awards scrapped suddenly after 50 years". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 June 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
- ^ "Past Winners" (PDF). Costa Book Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-12-29. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
- ^ Rabinovitch, Dina (2004-01-07). "Author of the month: Jeanne Willis". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-12-09. Retrieved 2023-06-04.
- ^ a b c Pauli, Michelle (2006-11-28). "Costa kicks off prize sponsorship with populist shortlist". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ Brown, Mark (2008-01-02). "Former postwoman takes Costa first novel award". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-05-27. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ Brown, Mark (2009-01-05). "Nonagenarian Diana Athill leads Costa book award winners". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-09-09. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ Brown, Mark (2010-01-26). "Christopher Reid wins Costa book prize". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-05-29. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ "In pictures: Costa book awards 2010". the Guardian. 2011-01-05. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-11-23. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ a b c Brown, Mark (2010-11-16). "Costa prize shortlist falls short on biographies". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2019-05-14. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ Brown, Mark; correspondent, arts (2012-01-24). "Costa book award: Andrew Miller wins for sixth novel, Pure". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2023-06-04. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ a b c "Costa book awards 2011: the shortlists – in pictures". the Guardian. 2011-11-15. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-07-07. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ Brown, Mark (2013-01-29). "Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies wins Costa prize after unanimous vote". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-12-16. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ "Former winners recapture Costa prize". BBC News. 2014-01-06. Archived from the original on 2022-02-07. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
- ^ Brown, Mark (2014-01-28). "Costa book award won by Nathan Filer for debut novel, The Shock of the Fall". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2023-04-05. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ "Costa book awards 2013: late author on all-female fiction shortlist". the Guardian. 2013-11-26. Archived from the original on 2022-02-06. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
- ^ Vincent, Alice (2015-01-05). "Wartime adaptation of Five Children and It wins in Costa Book Award categories". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ Brown, Mark (2015-01-27). "Helen Macdonald wins 2014 Costa book award for 'haunting' H is for Hawk". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2015-02-21. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ Oliver Arnoldi (18 November 2014). "2014 Costa Book Awards shortlists announced". Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
- ^ Brown, Mark (26 January 2016). "Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree wins Costa book of the year 2015". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 29 June 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
- ^ a b c Flood, Alison (2015-11-17). "Costa category awards 2015: tiny presses square up to big hitters". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-12-27. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ Cain, Sian (2017-01-31). "Days Without End wins Sebastian Barry second Costa book of the year award". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-07-04. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ a b Dugdale, John (2016-11-26). "2016 Costa award: why the shortlist is making history". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-11-29. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ Cain, Sian (2018-01-02). "Helen Dunmore wins posthumous Costa award for collection Inside the Wave". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2018-01-02. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ a b c d Flood, Alison (2017-11-21). "Helen Dunmore's final poems lead shortlists for 2017 Costa prizes". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Front Row - The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es named Costa Book of the Year 2018". BBC. Archived from the original on 2022-01-04. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
- ^ Flood, Alison (2019-01-07). "Costa first novel award winner recalls 'awful' time writing his book". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2023-05-26. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ a b c Flood, Alison (2018-11-22). "Costa book awards shortlist memoir of homeless couple's coast walk". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2023-05-30. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ Doyle, Martin (6 January 2020). "Costa Book Awards 2019 winners revealed". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 13 June 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ a b c Flood, Alison (2019-11-26). "Debut author of Queenie caps success with Costa prize shortlisting". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2023-01-28. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ "Costa Book of the Year: 'Utterly original' Mermaid of Black Conch wins". BBC. January 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-06-07. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ^ a b c Flood, Alison (2020-11-24). "Costa book awards: Susanna Clarke nominated for second novel after 16-year wait". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2023-04-04. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
- ^ "Costa Book Awards 2021 category winners announced". Costa. Archived from the original on 2022-01-05. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ^ a b c Anderson, Porter (2021-11-23). "The United Kingdom's Costa Book Awards Name Five Shortlists". Publishing Perspectives. Archived from the original on 2023-02-06. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
External links
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