Waterstone's Children's Book Prize

The Waterstone's Children's Book Prize is an annual award given to a work of children's literature published during the previous year. First awarded in 2005, the purpose of the prize is "to uncover hidden talent in children's writing" and is therefore open only to authors who have published no more than three books.

For the first two years, the award was known as the Ottakar's Children's Book Prize, but when all Ottakar's stores were rebranded as Waterstone's following the HMV Group takeover of the Ottakar's chain, the prize also changed its name.

Winners

• 2011 Artichoke Hearts by Sita Brahmachari
• 2010 The Great Hamster Massacre by Katie Davies
• 2009 The Thirteen Treasures by Michelle Harrison
• 2008 Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
• 2007 Darkside by Tom Becker
• 2006 The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
• 2005 The Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill

Shortlists

• 2011
  • The Memory Cage by Ruth Eastham
  • Tall Story by Candy Gourlay
  • The Pain Merchants by Janice Hardy
  • Wereworld: The Rise of the Wolf by Curtis Jobling
  • Fantastic Frankie and the Brain-Drain by Anna Kemp
  • A Beautiful Lie by Irfan Master
  • Mortlock by Jon Mayhew
  • When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

• 2010
  • Flyaway by Lucy Christopher
  • The Crowfield Curse by Pat Walsh
  • The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
  • Love, Aubrey by Suzanne Lafleur
  • The Seven Sorcerers by Caro King
  • The Toymaker by Jeremy De Quidt
  • Meteorite Strike by A.G. Taylor
  • Desperate Measures by Laura Summers

• 2009
  • How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant by Elen Caldecott
  • Zelah Green Queen of Clean by Vanessa Curtis
  • Changeling by Steve Feasey
  • The Thirteen Treasures by Michelle Harrison
  • Gnomes are Forever by Ceci Jenkinson
  • The Lady in the Tower by Marie-Louise Jensen
  • Mapmaker's Monsters by Rob Stevens
  • Numbers by Rachel Ward

• 2008
  • Tumtum and Nutmeg by Emily Bearn
  • TIM Defender of the Earth by Sam Enthoven
  • Shadow Forest by Matt Haig
  • Blue Sky Freedom by Gabrielle Halberstam
  • Between Two Seas by Marie-Louise Jensen
  • Ancient Appetites by Oisín McGann
  • Stone Goblins by David Melling
  • Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
  • Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine

• 2007
  • Darkside by Tom Becker
  • Nathan Fox: Dangerous Times by L. Brittney
  • The Werewolf Teacher by Michael Broad
  • Sebastian Darke by Philip Caveney
  • A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
  • Bunker 10 by J. A. Henderson
  • The Black Book of Secrets by F. E. Higgins
  • The Case of the Missing Cats by Gareth P. Jones
  • The Thing with Finn by Tom Kelly
  • Smugglers by Christopher Russell

• 2006
  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
  • Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach
  • The Quantum Prophecy by Michael Carroll
  • Gregor and the Rats of Underland by Suzanne Collins
  • Jack Slater, Monster Investigator by John Dougherty
  • Ralph the Magic Rabbit by Adam Frost
  • The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
  • The Lottery by Beth Goobie
  • North Child by Edith Pattou
  • Spymice by Heather Vogel Frederick

• 2005
  • Nelly the Monster Sitter by Kes Gray
  • Siberia by Ann Halam
  • The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
  • The Merrybegot by Julie Hearn
  • The Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill
  • The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull by Barry Jonsberg
  • Urchin of the Riding Stars by M. I. McAllister
  • The Whispering Road by Livi Michael
  • Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
  • Olivia Kidney by Ellen Potter
  • Jammy Dodgers on the Run by Bowering Sivers
  • Time Wreccas by Val Tyler

External links

• Waterstone's Children's Book Prize
• Waterstone's Children's Book Prize shortlist 2008
• Ottakar's Children's Book Prize shortlist 2006
• Ottakar's Children's Book Prize shortlist 2005