Sheffield Children’s Book Award 2016 Shortlist books

Picture Book Category

Peter Bently                The Prince and the Porker                              Andersen Press

& David Roberts

Ross Collins                 There’s a Bear on My Chair                           Nosy Crow

Daisy Hirst                   The Girl with the Parrot on her Head             Walker Books

Mick & Chloë Inkpen  I Will Love You Anyway                                   Hodder

David Litchfield           The Bear and the Piano                                 

Ana & Thiago              The Zoomers’ Handbook                                Andersen Press

de Moraes

 

Shorter Novels

Clement Beauvais       The Royal Bake Off                                         Bloomsbury

Illustrated by Becka Moor

Clara Vulliamy                        Mango & Bambang                                        Walker Books

Michael Rosen                        Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed                    Bloomsbury

Illustrated by Neal Layton

Longer Novels

Katherine Rundell       The Wolf Wilder                                             Bloomsbury

Illustrated by Gelrev Ongbico

Matt Haig                    A Boy Called Christmas                                  Canongate

Illustrated by Chris Mould

Lara Williamson          The Boy Who Sailed the Ocean in an                         Usborne

Armchair

Young Adult

Sarah Crossan             One                                                                             Bloomsbury

Andy Mulligan             Liquidator                                                        David Fickling

Joanna Nadin               Joe All Alone                                                   Little Brown

David Owen                Panther                                                           Corsair

Annabel Pitcher          Silence is Goldfish                                           Indigo

Jenny  Valentine          Fire Colour One                                              Harper Collins

Special Category - Celebrity Authors

David Baddiel              Person Controller                                            Harper Collins

Illustrated by Jim Field

Julian Clary                 The Bolds                                                        Andersen Press

Illustrated by David Roberts

Helen Skelton              Amy Wild - Amazon Summer                         Corgi

Book Trust best books list from 2015

Great list highlighting the best books. Some intresting recommendations


http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books/children/booklists/390/

Overall Winners Poster 2015

Authors and illustrators confirmed for ceremony

The list is growing daily but heres the latest information.
We are really looking forward to welcoming you all to the Sheffield Children's Book Award Ceremony at the CrucibleTheatre in Sheffield on the 12th November!

Peter Bently
Sebastien Braun
Salina Yoon
Steve Anthony
Michelle Robinson
Jim Field
Kes Gray
Josh Lacey
Jonny Duddle
Lara Williamson
Dave Shelton
Virginia Bergin
G. R. Gemin
Alex Gutteridge
Hilary Robinson
Martin Impey

Award ceremony author confirmations

Its an exciting time of year for us here at Book Award HQ. The votes are all in and the winner is.....to be announced on the 12th November at the Crucible Theatre!
All the authors and illustraters have been sent thier party invites and so far the following have confirmed they will be coming along. Remember to keep checking here for updates.

G R Gremin

Giancarlo was born in Cardiff, South Wales, of Italian parentage, and lives in London. He spends much of his non-writing time listening to a variety of music, from Jimmy Smith to Giuseppe Verdi, with whom he is particularly obsessed. He speaks enough Italian to order ice cream, cake, or both.

 

Cowgirl
Growing up on the embattled Mawr Estate in South Wales, all Gemma sees are burglaries, muggings, sadness and boredom. With a dad in prison and a mum who has given up hope, she, like everyone around her, is holding on to memories of the times when happiness wasn’t so hard to find.. When her search for the scene of a perfect childhood day takes her up into the surrounding hills, Gemma is forced into a meeting with the legendary Cowgirl.




 A gently funny story of a community coming together, this is a tale of happy endings in unexpected places.


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Hilary Robinson (Author)
Hilary Robinson is an author, radio producer, broadcaster and feature writer. She was born in Devon and brought up in Nigeria and England. The author of over forty books for children she is best known for Mixed Up Fairy Tales. Her books have been translated into a number of languages and are sold across the world. She lives and works in London and Yorkshire.
Hilary is related to William Wordsworth via a collateral branch of the poet’s family. She has Manx ancestry.
Her next book with Martin Impey“Flo of the Somme” is due out Oct 2015.

Martin Impey (Illustrator)

 

The Christmas Truce

It's Christmas Eve 1914. A group of tired soldiers start singing Stille Nacht. Soldiers the other side of No Man's Land respond with Silent Night. The next day, soldiers on both sides put down their weapons and celebrate the spirit of Christmas Day with a friendly football match. In the sequel to the hugely popular Where The Poppies Now Grow, The Christmas Truce finds soldiers Ben and Ray shaking hands in friendship with Karl and Lars, a tribute to that remarkable moment in history when, for one day, peace found a place.

 

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Greenaway winner 2015

Shackleton's Journey
illustrated by William Grill
published by Flying Eye

http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/2015awards/

2015 Carnegie Winner

Congratulations to Tanya.
Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman published by Walker Books
Engrossing from the very beginning, the strong narrative voice engages the reader in the world described; perfectly conveying raw emotions without the overuse of sentimentality. This is a beautiful, powerful piece of writing that will remain with readers long after the last page.http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/2015awards/

Superman / Wonder Woman wins the 2015 Stan Lee Excelsior Award

DC's Story of Super Heroes Trying to Explore a Romantic Relationship Whilst Battling Huge Threats to the World Scoops First Place!

Over 4400 Ratings Forms were returned and analysed this year and the teenagers of Great Britain have chosen their winner - Superman / Wonder Woman by Charles Soule and Tony S. Daniel (published by DC Comics)!
To find out which books finished 2nd and 3rd click on the link below and visit the website...
excelsioraward.co.uk/shortlist2015.html

Winners of the True Believers Award
Sheffield's High Storrs School won the True Believers Award this year. This award goes to the school that returns the most Rating Forms.

Book for the Boys

There's no shortage of research that suggests that boys don't read as much as girls but here's a link to a list of books that are 'Great for Boys'.

http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/genre/gr8/Books-for-Boys.html

New Children's Laureate announced

Illustrator and writer Chris Riddell, who has worked with classic authors Quentin Blake, Michael Rosen and Neil Gaiman and illustrated Russell Brand’s first kids’ book, has been named children’s laureate. He is the ninth author to hold the two-year post.
Riddell, who takes over from Malorie Blackman, will focus on creativity and visual literacy, extolling the meditative pleasure – for everyone – of creating a drawing every day.
In advance of the announcement he said: “Do you have hands? Excellent. That’s a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle. Take a line for a walk, as Paul Klee said. Lose your inhibitions about drawing and just do it.”
Riddell will post a daily illustration on an online “laureate log” for the duration of his tenure, and will organise events with other illustrators.

www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/09/illustrator-chris-riddell-named-uk-childrens-laureate


Chris was shortlisted for the Sheffield Children's Book Award with Neil Gayman
in 2014 for Fortunaltly the Milk...
Fortunately the Milk
This is quite possibly the most exciting adventure ever to be written about milk since Tolstoy's epic novel War and Milk. Also it has aliens, pirates, dinosaurs and wumpires in it (but not the handsome, misunderstood kind), also a never-adequately-explained-bowl-of-piranhas, not to mention a Volcano God.

Children's Author Prize

Winner of New National Literacy Trust Children's Author Prize revealed

The winner of the New Children’s Author Prize was announced last night at a celebration event in London. Teacher Emma Cox beat over 400 entries to win the award. Her book Malkin Moonlight, which tells the story of a cat and its sixth sense, will be published by Bloomsbury in summer 2016. The competition has raised over £20,000, which will go towards The National Literacy Trusts work to tackle low literacy levels in communities across the UK.

Award Ceremony date confirmed

Just a quick update, now the Snooker is over  (and the green baize packed away once again) we have had confirmation from the world famous Crucible Theatre that we are booked in their diary for Thursday 12^th November  for the Sheffield Children’s Book Award Ceremony!

We are really looking forward to a bumper attendance this year as we have had a record number of schools sign up for the project. I am sure all the children and young people will be very excited to hear the results announced for the very first time at the ceremony and meeting lots of authors and illustrators.

 

Michelle Robinson Author visit to Sheffield

We are thrilled that Sheffield Children's Book Award shortlist author Michelle Robinson will be coming along to Sheffield Central Library on the 2nd May to read her stories and encourage children to take part in activity sessions.

The sessions are ideal for children aged 5- 10 years. Places are free but need to be booked through me jennifer.wilson@sheffield.gov.uk or you can call in the Central children's library and collect a ticket.

Shortlist 2015

 

Every year a team of library staff, teachers and educational practitioners get together and spend a fantastically indulgent 3 days delving into 100’s of the best children's books published during the previous year.

Everyone enjoys taking time out from the day job selecting the books with the criteria in mind of selecting books we all think will inspire and engage the children of Sheffield.

And every year… it snows! Our selection panel was smaller than in previous years and all had one eye on the window checking the weather but….we think we have found some real gems this year.

The full shortlist will be revealed as soon as we have confirmation from all the publishers but here are the books we can announce so far.

Baby Book Award Category

Alphaprints 123 - Priddy Books

Bob and Flow - Oxford University press

(4 more titles to follow)

Picture Books Category

Chicking Clicking - Jeanne Willis/Tony Ross - Andersen Press

This Book Just ate my Dog - Richard Byrne - Oxford University Press

(4 more to follow)

Shorter Novels Category

The Dragonsitters Island - Josh Lacey/Garry Parsons - Andersen Press

Buckle and Squash and the Monstrous Moat-Dragon - Sarah Courtauld - Macmillan

(1 to follow)

Longer Novels Category

My Brothers Shadow - Tom Avery/Kate Grove - Andersen Press

A Boy Called Hope - Lara Williamson - Usborne Books

(1 to follow)

Young Adult Category

Thirteen Charis - Dave Shelton - David Fickling

The Rain - Virginia Bergin - Macmillan

Cowgirl- G.R. Gemin - Nosy Crow

More than This - Patrick Ness - Walker Books

(2 to follow)







 

Snapshots from the 2014 Award Ceremony

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the winning books are.......

 Congraultaions to all shsortlist authors and particularly the winners.

Sorry for the delay!

Sheffield Children's Book Award ceremony update

Authors and Illustrators confirming attendance at the Sheffield Children's Book Award ceremony on 5th November.

James Dawson - author of the Young Adult Novel, Cruel Summer

James will also be staying on after for a meet the author session for a chat about his book and take your questions. Schools will be invited along to this special opportunity but if your school would like to beconsidered, please contact me for further details.

 

 

Adam Stower - author of the Picture Book Troll and the Oliver

 

Adam is looking forward to meeting a group of children after the ceremony at one of our community librraies, further details to follow.

Charlotte and Adam Guillain , authors of the Picture Book

Spaghetti and the Yeti

 

The husband and wife team that created this book will be availble after the ceremony to meet a group of children to talk about thier book. This will take place in one of our community librraies (further details to follow)

 

Popular artists and authors design BookBenches

Children’s authors Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Morpurgo, Lauren Child and Cressida Cowell have announced that they will design BookBenches based on their own children’s books to be unveiled on the streets of London this summer.

The benches, shaped as open books, will form part of a public art trail of 50 BookBenches launched for the National Literacy Trust’s ‘Books about Town’ project to celebrate London’s literary legacy and raise vital funds for literacy.

 

http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/news/6019_popular_artists_and_authors_design_bookbenchesliteracy trust book benches

2014 Special Category - Poetry

For the past few years we have introduced a new category to the award shortlist to raise the profile of genres not usually recognised by the Award shortlist.
In the past we have had the following special categories;

• Books from a Series
• Community Libraries Favourite Book
• Teachers Favourite Book
• Quick Read
• Stan Lee - Manga/Graphic Novel

This year our Special category is Poetry and 3 fantastic books have been selected

 

The Monster Sale by Brian Moses

Monsters that moan and groan and wail, Buy your monsters at the Monster Sale. Chickens who wear jumpers, all kinds of monsters, a puppy's favourite chews (a lucky dip of forgotten socks), staying awake waiting for your birthday, a bear in his underwear...

In his first collection for younger children, well-known poet Brian Moses has provided a funny and witty snapshot of family life, with a bit of fantasy added in.

Perfect for sharing at home or at school.

 

 

BRIAN MOSES has been a professional poet since 1988. He spends half his time writing and the rest of the time he visits schools across the UK and Europe, performing his poetry and percussion show. His poetry books include Behind the Staffroom Door: The Very Best of Brian Moses and A Cat Called Elvis. His solo collections and anthologies have sold over 1 million copies and he is featured on e National Poetry Archive.

Brian lives in a small Sussex village with his wife, their loopy labrador and a collection of bad-tempered chickens.

Here Come the Creatures! by Wes Magee

Funny, sad, silly, sing-along, the poems are about friends and families, pets and creatures, school, space travel - and more. There is something for everyone in this sparkling collection - with lots of action and joining in.

A brilliant and varied poetry collection suited to early years and key stage one aged childen from this distinguished children's poet.

 

WES MAGEE was born in Scotland, and worked as a teacher and head-teacher until he became a full-time writer twenty years ago. He has published 100 books for children, including poetry, picture books and storybooks. He regularly visits schools, libraries and festivals across the UK and abroad, performing his poetry show . He also runs training days for teachers, talks at educational conferences and runs writing workshops. His best-known books are The Very Best of Wes Magee, which won the Children's Poetry Bookshelf Award, The Boneyard Rap and The Witch's Brew. He lives in Yorkshire.

John Hegerty - I Am A Poetato

From A-Z - Alligator to The Dog Runs (Zoom) - John Hegley has a witty, surprising and always entertaining poem for every letter. Wonderfully varied, there are poems about people, pets and all kinds of other creatures. In each of them John Hegley brings insights by highlighting particular characteristics. G is for Guillemot, in which the poem gives a visual image of the precipitous world in which the bird lives as well as describing its life; Christmas Caterpillar surprises Santa while Quibble will set all readers on a circular and quibbling conversation about exactly what is being described. A terrific anthology for diving into again and again.

 

JOHN HEGLEY was born in north London and brought up in Luton. He now lives in Islington. He started out as a stand-up comedian/poet, performing his work on the festival and comedy circuit and he became something of a cult performer from the early 80s onwards. He has recently started to direct his writing and performances more towards children, but generally his shows will delight all ages. He plays the ukulele as part of his poetry performances. He is a Fellow of the English Association. John Hegley lives in north London.

 

 

 

Congratulation James "Queen of teen!"

James Dawson has beaten John Green to be crowned the first ever male Queen of Teen. Dawson was announced as the winner of the award at a ceremony on Friday 11th July 2014 surrounded by fans, invited journalists and five out of nine of the other shortlisted authors: Cathy Cassidy, Beth Reekles, Natasha Farrant, Holly Smale, Cassandra Clare, S.C. Ransom, Tonya Hurley, Veronica Roth and John Green.

James is the author of Cruel Summer, shortlisted for the Sheffield Children's Book Award 2014 Young Adult category.

The Queen of Teen was launched in 2008 to celebrate the ever-growing range of fiction available for young adults and acknowledge the hugely significant part that fiction can play in the teenage years. Readers are invited to nominate authors for the award and it is their votes that choose the winner.
The changing shape of the shortlists over the years – each one nominated entirely by teens – accurately reflects the trends and developments in the genre of teen fiction. From the hilarious books of the first-winner, Louise Rennison, through the more issues-focused stories of Cathy Cassidy to the darker tales of Maureen Johnson and James Dawson.
Author of Hollow Pike and Say Her Name, James rallied his loyal fans and followers with a vigorous social media campaign and an ‘endorsement’ from Eurovision Song Contest winner Conchita Wurst. Queen of Teen voters were impressed with his sensitive and entertaining handling of subjects such as challenges affecting the LGBT community.
As one voter commented: ‘There are lots of gay characters in his books. But the books aren't about being gay; they're gay because they're gay and a huge fuss isn't made about it, which is fantastic.’
James said, on being crowned Queen of Teen, ‘I am not the best-selling author on the list. I’m not the most famous. I’m not the most talented. So all I can really do is promise to work twice as hard to be a really good queen. I hope I can take this award and do something with it, and use the platform to shine a light on UKYA.’
For further information on Queen of Teen and how to take part in the voting for next year’s award visit www.queenofteen.co.uk