The shortlists for the Costa Book Awards have been announced. The British awards are given for first novel, novel, biography, poetry and children’s book. Here is the shortlist for the Costa Children’s Book Award.
Flyaway by Lucy Christopher
Annexed by Sharon Dogar
Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud
Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace
The winners of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize for 2010 have been announced:
Louise Yates won the prize for Ages 6 and Under with Dog Loves Books, a book after every book-lover’s heart.
Louise Rennison won the Ages 7-14 category with Withering Tights, a book I must get my hands on.
Thanks to booktrade.info for the news.
Kathryn Erskine has won the 2010 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for her book Mockingbird.
School Library Journal has information on the event.
The book has been the center of a discussion on several blogs about how much an author has to reveal about themselves in a book.
Two new best book lists were released recently. I love these for adding to my to-read lists but also for finding my favorites on them too.
The New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2010 has a delightful list of books this year. So many of my favorite reads made the list that I am quite tickled!
Publisher’s Weekly also has their Best Children’s Books out. Sadly, I can only get the first page to show up because it wants me to log in. I will have to wait rather impatiently for the library’s copy to cross my desk. Perhaps you will have more luck.
Unhooking the Moon by Gregory Hughes has won the 2010 Booktrust Teenage Prize. This is a debut novel written by a deep sea diver. I’m already intrigued!
Here are the finalists for the Young People’s Literature category of the 2010 National Book Award.
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (my review)
Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine (my review)
Dark Water by Laura McNeal
Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (my review)
The Children’s Book Guild has awarded the 2011 Nonfiction Award to Kathleen Krull. Author of nonfiction books that are such fun to read as well as well-researched and fascinating. No one quite mixes the humor of life with nonfiction as Krull does. I am looking forward to her new titles too!
I am very excited to be part of the Cybils again this year. In the last few years, I have been part of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Panel. It’s great to be back where I originally started in the Young Adult Fiction category. This time as a Round 2 judge. Take a look at our entire YA panel here.
So how can you be involved? You can nominate one book in each of the categories between October 1st and October 15th. The books have to have been published between October 16, 2009 and September 30, 2010.
The finalists in each category will be announced on New Years Day. The winners will be announced on Valentines Day.
A huge thank you to everyone who puts their time and energy into these awards every year. It is an honor to be a small part it.
The PEN Center has announced the 2010 PEN USA Literary Award Winners and Finalists. They have several categories. Here are the winners for Children’s/Young Adult Literature:
Winner:
Paul Fleischman: The Dunderheads
Finalists:
Kate DiCamillo: The Magician’s Elephant
Benjamin Alire Saenz: Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Liz Garton Scanlon: All the World
Waking Brain Cells 