The Waterstone Children's Book Prize | |
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Awarded for | to uncover hidden talent in children's writing |
Date | 21 March 2023 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | Waterstones |
Formerly called | Ottakar's Children's Book Prize |
First awarded | 2005 |
Website | www |
The Waterstones Children's Book Prize is an annual award given to a work of children's literature published during the previous year. First awarded in 2005, the purpose of the prize is "to uncover hidden talent in children's writing" and is therefore open only to authors who have published no more than two or three books, depending on which category they are in. [1] The prize is awarded by British book retailer Waterstones.
It was originally called the Ottakar's Children's Book Prize, after the bookshop chain. When all Ottakar's stores were rebranded as Waterstone's following the HMV Group takeover in 2006, the prize also changed its name to become the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize.
Beginning in 2012, the prize was divided into three categories: Picture Books, Fiction 5–12, and Teen. [2] Each category winner receives £2,000 with an overall winner chosen from the three getting an additional £3,000 (thus the overall winner receives £5,000 in total). [3]
In 2016 the categories were renamed: Picture Books became Illustrated Books, Fiction 5–12 became Younger Fiction and the Teen category became Older Fiction.
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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Best Book | Stuart Hill | The Cry of the Icemark | Winner | [4] |
M. I. McAllister | Urchin of the Riding Stars | Finalist | ||
Barry Jonsberg | The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull | |||
Livi Michael | The Whispering Road | |||
Val Tyler | The Time Wreccas | |||
Julie Hearn | The Merrybegot | |||
Shannon Hale | The Goose Girl | |||
Ann Halam | Siberia | |||
Ellen Potter | Olivia Kidney | |||
Kes Gray | Nelly the Monster Sitter | |||
Bowering Sivers | Jammy Dodgers on the Run | |||
Kenneth Oppel | Airborn |
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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Best Book | Julia Golding | The Diamond of Drury Lane | Winner | |
Michael Carroll | The Quantum Prophecy | Finalist | ||
Beth Goobie | The Lottery | |||
John Boyne | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | |||
Heather Vogel Frederick | Spymice | |||
Elise Broach | Shakespeare's Secret | |||
Adam Frost | Ralph the Magic Rabbit | |||
Edith Pattou | North Child | |||
John Dougherty | Jack Slater, Monster Investigator | |||
Suzanne Collins | Gregor and the Rats of Underland |
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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Best Book | Tom Becker | Darkside | Winner | |
Tom Kelly | The Thing with Finn | Finalist | ||
Gareth P. Jones | The Case of the Missing Cats | |||
F. E. Higgins | The Black Book of Secrets | |||
Christopher Russell | Smugglers | |||
Philip Caveney | Sebastian Darke | |||
L. Brittney | Nathan Fox: Dangerous Times | |||
Michael Broad | Jake Cake: The Werewolf Teacher | |||
J. A. Henderson | Bunker 10 | |||
Siobhan Dowd | A Swift Pure Cry |
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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Best Book | Sally Nicholls | Ways to Live Forever | Winner | |
Emily Bearn | Tumtum and Nutmeg | Finalist | ||
Sam Enthoven | TIM Defender of the Earth | |||
David Melling | Stone Goblins | |||
Matt Haig | Shadow Forest | |||
Jenny Valentine | Broken Soup | |||
Gabrielle Halberstam | Blue Sky Freedom | |||
Marie-Louise Jensen | Between Two Seas | |||
Oisín McGann | Ancient Appetites |
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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Best Book | Michelle Harrison | 13 Treasures | Winner | |
Elen Caldecott | How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant | Finalist | ||
Vanessa Curtis | Zelah Green Queen of Clean | |||
Steve Feasey | Changeling | |||
Ceci Jenkinson | Gnomes Are Forever | |||
Marie-Louise Jensen | The Lady in the Tower | |||
Rob Stevens | Mapmaker's Monsters | |||
Rachel Ward | Numbers |
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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Best Book | Katie Davies | The Great Hamster Massacre | Winner | [5] |
Jeremy De Quidt | The Toymaker | Finalist | [6] | |
Caro King | The Seven Sorcerers | |||
Victoria Forester | The Girl Who Could Fly | |||
Pat Walsh | The Crowfield Curse | |||
A. G. Taylor | Meteorite Strike | |||
Suzanne Lafleur | Love, Aubrey | |||
Lucy Christopher | Flyaway | |||
Laura Summers | Desperate Measures |
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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Best Book | Sita Brahmachari | Artichoke Hearts | Winner | [7] |
Ruth Eastham | The Memory Cage | Finalist | [8] | |
Candy Gourlay | Tall Story | |||
Janice Hardy | The Pain Merchants | |||
Curtis Jobling | Wereworld: The Rise of the Wolf | |||
Anna Kemp | Fantastic Frankie and the Brain-Drain Machine | |||
Irfan Master | A Beautiful Lie | |||
Jon Mayhew | Mortlock | |||
Rebecca Stead | When You Reach Me |
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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OVERALL | Jonny Duddle | The Pirates Next Door | Winner | [9] [10] |
Fiction 5-12 | Liz Pichon | The Brilliant World of Tom Gates | Category winner | [9] |
Mackenzie Crook | The Windvale Sprites | Finalist | [11] | |
Janet Foxley | Muncle Trogg | |||
Gill Lewis | Sky Hawk | |||
Alan Silberberg | Milo and the Restart Button | |||
Alex T. Smith | Claude in the City | |||
Picture Book | Jonny Duddle | The Pirates Next Door | Category winner | [9] |
Marta Altés | No! | Finalist | ||
Jon Klassen | I Want My Hat Back | |||
Ann Bonwill and Simon Rickerty | I Don't Want to be a Pea! | |||
Nadia Shireen | Good Little Wolf | |||
Chris Haughton | A Bit Lost | |||
Teen | Jenny Downham | You Against Me | Category winner | [9] |
Annabel Pitcher | My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece | Finalist | ||
Veronica Roth | Divergent | |||
Ruta Sepetys | Between Shades of Gray | |||
Phil Earle | Being Billy | |||
Morgan Matson | Amy and Roger's Epic Detour |
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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OVERALL | Annabel Pitcher | Ketchup Clouds | Winner | |
Fiction 5-12 | R. J. Palacio | Wonder | Category winner | |
Catherine Constable | The Wolf Princess | Finalist | [12] [13] | |
Jennifer Gray | Atticus Claw Breaks the Law | |||
Helen Peters | The Secret Hen House Theatre | |||
Geoff Rodkey | Chronicles of Egg: Deadweather and Sunrise | |||
Jim Smith | Barry Loser: I Am Not a Loser | |||
Picture Book | Rebecca Cobb | Lunchtime | Category winner | |
Jo Empson | Rabbityness | Finalist | ||
Chris Haughton | Oh No, George! | |||
Anna Kemp | The Worst Princess | |||
Frann Preston-Gannon | The Journey Home | |||
Sam Usher | Can You See Sassoon? | |||
Teen | Annabel Pitcher | Ketchup Clouds | Category winner | |
Rachel Hartman | Seraphina | Finalist | ||
Laura Jarratt | Skin Deep | |||
S. J. Kincaid | Insignia | |||
Sarah J. Maas | Throne of Glass | |||
Andy Robb | Geekhood: Close Encounters of the Girl Kind |
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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OVERALL | Katherine Rundell | Rooftoppers | Winner | [14] [15] [16] |
Fiction 5–12 | Katherine Rundell | Rooftoppers | Category winner | |
Soman Chainani | The School for Good and Evil | Finalist | [17] | |
Piers Torday | The Last Wild | |||
Sandra Greaves | Skull in the Wood | |||
Emerald Fennell | Shiverton Hall | |||
Laura Dockrill | Darcy Durdock | |||
Picture Book | Nicola O'Byrne | Open Very Carefully | Category winner | |
Elys Dolan | Weasels | Finalist | [17] | |
Yasmeen Ismail | Time for Bed, Fred | |||
Gemma Merino | The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water | |||
Helen Hancocks | Penguin in Peril | |||
Courtney Dicmas | Harold Finds a Voice | |||
Teen | Holly Smale | Geek Girl | Category winner | |
Alexia Casale | The Bone Dragon | Finalist | [17] [18] | |
Dawn O'Porter | Paper Aeroplanes | |||
Ruta Sepetys | Out of the Easy | |||
Emily Murdoch | If You Find Me | |||
Erin Lange | Butter |
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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OVERALL | Rob Biddulph | Blown Away | Winner | [19] [20] [21] |
Fiction 5-12 | Robin Stevens | Murder Most Unladylike | Category winner | |
Harriet Whitehorn with Beck Moor (illustrator) | Violet and the Pearl of the Orient | Finalist | [22] | |
Anne Booth | Girl with a White Dog | |||
GR Gemin | Cowgirl | |||
Polly Ho-Yen | Boy in the Tower | |||
Lara Williamson | A Boy Called Hope | |||
Picture Book | Rob Biddulph | Blown Away | Category winner | |
Sophy Henn | Where Bear? | Finalist | [22] | |
Victoria Turnbull | The Sea Tiger | |||
Steve Antony | The Queen's Hat | |||
Suzanne Barton | The Dawn Chorus | |||
Lucy Letherland | Atlas of Adventures | |||
Teen | Sally Green | Half Bad | Category winner | |
Leslye Walton | The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender | Finalist | [22] | |
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald | The Apple Tart of Hope | |||
Kim Skater | Smart | |||
Louise O'Neill | Only Ever Yours | |||
Erin Lange | Dead Ends |
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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OVERALL | David Solomon | My Brother Is a Superhero | Winner | [23] |
Illustrated Book | David Litchfield | The Bear and the Piano | Category winner | [23] |
Naomi Howarth | The Crow's Tale | Finalist | [24] | |
Matty Long | Super Happy Magic Forest | |||
Nicholas John Frith | Hector and Hummingbird | |||
David Barrow | Have You Seen Elephant? | |||
Lorraine Carey and Migy Blanco | Cinderella's Sister and the Big Bad Wolf | |||
Older Fiction | Lisa Williamson | The Art of Being Normal | Category winner | [23] |
Melinda Salisbury | The Sin Eater's Daughter | Finalist | [25] [24] [26] | |
Moïra Fowley-Doyle | The Accident Season | |||
Lisa Heathfield | Seed | |||
Jandy Nelson | I'll Give You the Sun | |||
Leo Hunt | 13 Days of Midnight | |||
Younger Fiction | David Solomon | My Brother Is a Superhero | Category winner | [23] |
Sibéal Pounder | Witch Wars | Finalist | [24] | |
Katherine Woodfine | The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow | |||
Kevin Sands | The Blackthorn Key | |||
Shane Hegarty | Darkmouth | |||
Crystal Chan | Bird |
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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OVERALL | Kiran Millwood Hargrave | The Girl of Ink and Stars | Winner | [27] |
Illustrated Book | Lizzy Stewart | There's a Tiger in the Garden | Category winner | |
Fabi Santiago | Tiger in a Tutu | Finalist | [28] | |
Francesca Sanna | The Journey | |||
Duncan Beedie | The Bear Who Stared | |||
Matt Robertson | Super Stan | |||
Meg McLaren | Life Is Magic | |||
Older Fiction | Patrice Lawrence | Orangeboy | Category winner | |
Nilanjana Roy | The Wildings | Finalist | [28] | |
Nicola Yoon | The Sun Is Also a Star | |||
Lisa Heathfield | Paper Butterflies | |||
Lindsay Eager | Hour of the Bees | |||
Gavriel Savit | Anna and the Swallow Man | |||
Younger Fiction | Kiran Millwood Hargrave | The Girl of Ink and Stars | Category winner | [27] |
Lauren Wolk | Wolf Hollow | Finalist | [28] | |
Ross Welford | Time Travelling with a Hamster | |||
Peter Bunzl | Cogheart | |||
Laura James | Captain Pug | |||
MG Leonard | Beetle Boy |
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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OVERALL | Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give | Winner | [29] [30] [31] |
Illustrated Book | Joe Todd-Stanton | The Secret of Black Rock | Category winner | |
Louise Greig | The Night Box | Finalist | ||
Matt Carr | Superbat | |||
Sandra Dieckmann | Leaf | |||
Simon Philip | I Really Want the Cake | |||
Robert Starling | Fergal Is Fuming! | |||
Older Fiction | Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give | Category winner | |
Catherine Barter | Troublemakers | Finalist | ||
Pam Smy | Thornhill | |||
Emily Suvada | This Mortal Coil | |||
Emily Bain Murphy | The Disappearances | |||
Alice Broadway | Ink | |||
Younger Fiction | Jessica Townsend | Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow | Category winner | |
Maz Evans | Who Let the Gods Out? | Finalist | ||
Kieran Larwood | The Legend of Podkin One-Ear | |||
Lisa Thompson | The Goldfish Boy | |||
Greg James and Chris Smith | Kid Normal | |||
Helena Duggan | A Place Called Perfect |
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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OVERALL | Onjali Q. Raúf | The Boy at the Back of the Class | Winner | [30] |
Illustrated Book | Lauren Ace and Jenny Løvlie | The Girl | Category winner | |
Emily Haworth-Booth | The King Who Banned the Dark | Finalist | [32] | |
John Bond | Mini Rabbit Not Lost | |||
Vashti Harrison | Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History | |||
Jessica Love | Julián Is a Mermaid | |||
Michael Whaite | 100 Dogs | |||
Older Fiction | Tomi Adeyemi | Children of Blood and Bone | Category winner | |
Tracy Darnton | The Truth About Lies | Finalist | [32] | |
Elizabeth Acevedo | The Poet X | |||
Malcolm Duffy | Me Mam. Me Dad. Me. | |||
Ele Fountain | Boy 87 | |||
Christelle Dabos | A Winter's Promise | |||
Younger Fiction | Onjali Q. Raúf | The Boy at the Back of the Class | Category winner | [30] |
P.G. Bell | The Train to Impossible Places | Finalist | [32] | |
Ewa Jozefkowicz | The Mystery of the Colour Thief | |||
Sophie Anderson | The House with Chicken Legs | |||
Andy Shepherd | The Boy Who Grew Dragons | |||
Vashti Hardy | Brightstorm: A Sky-Ship Adventure |
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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OVERALL | Nathan Bryon | Look Up! | Winner | [33] [34] [35] |
Illustrated Book | Nathan Bryon | Look Up! | Category winner | [36] |
Graham Carter | Otto Blotter, Bird Spotter | Finalist | ||
Kate Read | One Fox | |||
Beatrice Blue | Once Upon a Unicorn Horn | |||
Rose Robbins | Me and My Sister | |||
Ben Rothery | Hidden Planet | |||
Older Fiction | Liz Hyder | Bearmouth | Category winner | [36] |
Emma Smith-Barton | The Million Pieces of Neena Gill | Finalist | ||
Tamsin Winter | Jemima Small Versus the Universe | |||
Samira Ahmed | Internment | |||
gal-dem | I Will Not Be Erased: Our Stories About Growing Up as People of Colour | |||
Holly Jackson | A Good Girl's Guide to Murder | |||
Younger Fiction | Sharna Jackson | High-Rise Mystery | Category winner | |
Kirsty Applebaum | The Middler | Finalist | ||
Meg Grehan | The Deepest Breath | |||
Lucy Strange | Our Castle, the Sea | |||
Sam Copeland | Charlie Changes into a Chicken | |||
Jasbinder Bilan | Asha and the Spirit Bird |
Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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OVERALL | Elle McNicoll | A Kind of Spark | Winner | [37] [38] [39] |
Illustrated Book | Bethan Stevens | The Grumpy Fairies | Category winner | [37] |
Eva Eland | Where Happiness Begins | Finalist | ||
Katie Cottle | The Blue Giant | |||
Amyra Leon | Freedom, We Sing | |||
Devon Holzwarth | Found You | |||
Dawn Coulter-Cruttenden | Bear Shaped | |||
Older Fiction | Darren Charlton | Wranglestone | Category winner | [37] |
Dean Atta | The Black Flamingo | Finalist | ||
Jordan Ifueko | Raybearer | |||
Sophie Gonzales | Only Mostly Devastated | |||
A. M. Dassu | Boy, Everywhere | |||
Danielle Jawando | And the Stars Were Burning Brightly | |||
Younger Fiction | Elle McNicoll | A Kind of Spark | Category winner | [37] [38] |
Kereen Getten | When Life Gives You Mangoes | Finalist | ||
Jenny Pearson | The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates | |||
Alastair Chisholm | Orion Lost | |||
Annabelle Sami | Llama Out Loud! | |||
Francesca Gibbons | A Clock of Stars: The Shadow Moth |
Category | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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OVERALL | Hannah Gold , illustrated by Levi Pinfold (HarperCollins Children's Books) | The Last Bear | HarperCollins Children's Books | Winner | [40] |
Illustrated Book | Harry Woodgate | Grandad's Camper | Andersen Press | Category winner | [41] |
Andy Harkness | Wolfboy | Bloomsbury Children's | Finalist | [42] [43] | |
Lu Fraser , illustrated by Mark McKinley | The Viking Who Liked Icing | Bloomsbury Children's | |||
Steve Small | The Duck Who Didn't Like Water | Simon & Schuster | |||
Helen Kellock | Out to Sea | Thames & Hudson | |||
Barr Falls | Alone! | Farshore | |||
Older Fiction | Ciara Smyth (Andersen Press) | Not My Problem | Andersen Press | Category winner | [41] |
Femi Fadugba | The Upper World | PRH Children's | Finalist | [42] [43] | |
Namina Forna | The Gilded Ones | Usborne | |||
Manjeet Mann | The Crossing | PRH Children's | |||
Michelle Quach | Not Here to Be Liked | Usborne | |||
Angeline Boulley | Firekeeper's Daughter | OneWorld | |||
Younger Fiction | Hannah Gold , illustrated by Levi Pinfold | The Last Bear | HarperCollins Children's Books | Category winner | [41] |
Benjamin Dean, illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat | Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow | Simon & Schuster | Finalist | [42] [43] | |
Kelly Yang , illustrated by Maike Plenzke | Front Desk | Knights Of | |||
Efua Traoré | Children of the Quicksands | The Chicken House | |||
Mark Bradley | Bumble and Snug and the Angry Pirates | Hodder Children's Books | |||
B. B. Alston , illustrated by Godwin Akpan | Amari and the Night Brothers | Farshore |
Category | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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OVERALL | Nadia Mikail | The Cats We Meet Along the Way | Guppy Publishing | Winner | [44] |
Illustrated Book | Kim Hillyard | Gretel the Wonder Mammoth | PRH Children's | Category winner | [44] |
Georgia Buckthorn, illustrated by Isabella Mazzanti | The Fairy Garden | Ivy Kids | Finalist | [45] [46] [47] | |
Emma Carlisle | What Do You See When You Look at a Tree? | Big Picture Press | |||
Rachael Davis, illustrated by Beatrix Hatcher | I Am NOT a Prince | Hachette Children's Group | |||
Stephen Hogtun | The Station Cat | DK | |||
Jordan Stephens, illustrated by Beth Suzanna | The Missing Piece | Bloomsbury Children's Books | |||
Older Fiction | Nadia Mikail | The Cats We Meet Along the Way | Guppy Publishing | Category winner | [44] |
Erik J Brown | All That's Left in the World | Hachette Children's Group | Finalist | [45] [46] [47] | |
Lewis Hancox | Welcome to St Hell | Scholastic | |||
Christine Pillainayagam | Ellie Pillai Is Brown | Faber and Faber | |||
Cynthia So | If You Still Recognise Me | Stripes Publishing | |||
Angharad Walker | Once Upon a Fever | The Chicken House | |||
Younger Fiction | M T Khan | Nura and the Immortal Palace | Walker Books | Category winner | [44] |
David Farr | The Book of Stolen Dreams | Usborne Publishing | Finalist | [45] [46] [47] | |
Hannah Moffatt | Small! | Everything with Words | |||
Lee Newbery | The Last Firefox | PRH Children's | |||
Varsha Shah | Ajay and the Mumbai Sun | The Chicken House | |||
J T Williams, illustrated by Simone Douglas | The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger | Farshore |
Category | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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OVERALL | Pari Thomson | Greenwild: The World Behind the Door | Macmillan | Winner | [48] |
Illustrated Book | Chloe Savage | The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish | Walker Books | Category winner | [48] |
Marcela Ferreira, illustrated by Sally Agar | The Queen Next Door | Orchard Books | Finalist | [49] [50] [51] | |
Natalie Labarre | Incredible Jobs You've (Probably) Never Heard Of | Nosy Crow | |||
Ellan Rankin | The Secret Elephant | Wren & Rook | |||
Kate Rolfe | Wolf and Bear | Two Hoots | |||
Andrew Sanders, illustrated by Aysha Awwad | Whose Dog Is This? | Macmillan | |||
Older Fiction | Kayvion Lewis | Thieves' Gambit | S&S | Category winner | [48] |
Nick Brooks | Promise Boys | Macmillan | Finalist | [49] [50] [51] | |
Mel Darbon | What the World Doesn't See | Usborne | |||
Bea Fitzgerald | Girl, Goddess, Queen | Penguin | |||
Ayaan Mohamud | You Think You Know Me | Usborne | |||
Alexandra Sheppard | Friendship Never Ends | Knights Of | |||
Younger Fiction | Pari Thomson | Greenwild: The World Behind the Door | Macmillan | Category winner | [48] |
J J Arcanjo | Crookhaven: The School for Thieves | Hodder | Finalist | [49] [50] [51] | |
Emily-Jane Clark | The Beasts of Knobbly Bottom: Attack of the Vampire Sheep! | Scholastic | |||
Lizzie Huxley-Jones | Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend | Knights Of | |||
Beth Lincoln | The Swifts | Puffin | |||
G M Linton | My Name Is Sunshine Simpson | Usborne |
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