Caroline Arnold, author of over 100 books for children has been selected to receive the 2005 Washington Post – Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. The award is given each year for a body of work that “has contributed significantly to the quality of nonfiction for children.”

The Guardian Unlimited site has the news that Kate Thompson has won the Guardian Prize for children’s fiction for her novel, The New Policeman. It appears that the book is not available yet in the U.S. but we can expect that to change now that it has been awarded the Guardian.