Locus Online News: Hugo Awards Winners were announced this week. The winner of best novel is Susanna Clarke for Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

‘Million To One’ outsider scoops CILIP Carnegie Medal with First Novel
Frank Cottrell Boyce has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2004 for ‘Millions’. Cottrell Boyce’s debut novel beat off strong competition from former winners Philip Pullman and Sharon Creech, and well-established writers Eva Ibbotson and Anne Cassidy, as well as one other first novel from American, Gennifer Choldenko.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette offers a listing of New books recommended for babies and toddlers. The list was selected by Beginning with Books, a Pittsburgh early literacy group. Each year they pick the ten best books for children up to 18 months old.

Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards have been announced. This year’s winners are:
Picture Book: Traction Man Is Here! by Mini Grey.
Fiction and Poetry: The Schwa Was Here by Neal Schusterman.
Nonfiction: The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip Hoose.
Two honor books in each category were also selected:
Picture Book: That New Animal by Emily Jenkins.
The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster.
Fiction and Poetry: Kalpana’s Dream by Judith Clarke.
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson.
Nonfiction: Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth by James Cross Giblin.
Michael Rosen’s Sad Book by Michael Rosen.

Baby book wins children’s award is a BBC article about the Red House Children’s Book Award being awarded to Baby Brains by Simon James. The title of the article is a little misleading because it is a book about a baby rather than for babies, and I don’t like the caption about it being a book about “pushy parents.” I love Baby Brains and so have the kids I have shared it with. I am not surprised that it won an award voted on by children.

The Booktrust Teenage Prize Shortlist has been announced. The UK prize recognizes the best in contemporary teen fiction.
Here is the shortlist:
Sugar Rush by Julie Burchill
Siberia by Ann Halam
Come Clean by Terri Paddock
The Whisper by Bali Rai
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Century by Sarah Singleton
The Unrivalled Spangles by Karen Wallace

The longlist for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2005 has been released.
Via ACHOCKABLOG.

Unfortunately, I can’t find a link to the press release online, and it is not up on the WLA website yet:
The Wisconsin Library Association has announced the winners of
the 2005 Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award: Kevin Henkes for Kitten’s First Full Moon.
the Outstanding Books of 2005:
With Courage and Cloth by Ann Bausum, Godless by Pete Hautman, and Blue Jasmine by Kashmira Seth
and the 2005 Notable Author Award:
S.D. Schindler.

CLA: Book Awards ~ Young Adult Canadian Book Award have been announced. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews won the award. The Beckoners by Carrie Mac and Airborn by Kenneth Oppel are the honor books.