The longlist for the 2015 Guardian Children’s Fiction Award has been announced. This British award celebrates the best fiction writing for children.
Here are the books on the longlist:
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Apple and Rain by Sarah Crossan
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders
An Island of Our Own by Sally Nicholls
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
My Name’s Not Friday by Jon Walter
A Song for Ella Grey by David Almond
What a year for teen graphic novels!
The 2015 Eisner Award Winnes have been announced and some of my favorite teen graphic novels of the year won in categories that are not limited to younger ages! Here are the winners that are either specifically for books for children and teens or that were won by those books:
BEST NEW SERIES
Lumberjanes by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson and Brooke A. Allen
BEST PUBLICATION FOR EARLY READERS (up to age 7)
The Zoo Box by Ariel Cohn & Aron Nels Steinke
BEST PUBLICATION FOR KIDS (ages 8-12)
El Deafo by Cece Bell
BEST PUBLICATION FOR TEENS (ages 13-17)
Lumberjanes by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson and Brooke A. Allen
BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM – NEW
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki
BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM – REPRINT
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
BEST WRITER
Gene Luen Yang for Avatar the Last Airbender and The Shadow Hero
BEST WRITER/ARTIST
Raina Telgemeier for Sisters
Waking Brain Cells 