The Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) today announced the 2010 shortlist. read more...
Five authors and five illustrators have been selected including David Almond.
The award, considered the most prestigious in international Children's literature, is given biennially by the International Board on Books for Young People to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have made lasting contributions to children's literature.
The organisers of the Queen of Teen Award are preparing for this year's award and will shortly be inviting nominations. read more...
Described as 'the sparkliest, most glamorous and certainly the pinkest award in the world of fiction' the Queen of Teen Award was founded in 2008 to celebrate writers for the tween and teen market. The first competition was a huge success, with tens of thousands of votes cast for a shortlist that included Meg Cabot, Cathy Cassidy, Jacqueline Wilson and the eventual winner Louise Rennison.
Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkes is the winner of this year’s Blue Peter Book Awards. The results were announced on a special episode of Blue Peter broadcast 3 March on BBC One in honour of World Book Day. read more...
Tara Books, the independent publisher from Chennai, south India, has won the 2010 Bologna Ragazzi Award for the handmade children's title, Do! read more...
The award, which will be presented at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in March, is designed to acknowledge publishing houses from the Arab countries, Latin America, Asia and Africa that show great innovative talent.
The School Library Association (SLA) this month launches a new Primary School Library Charter arguing that investment in school libraries must start early, and quoting the UK Convention on the Rights of the Child to make its case. Articles 13 of the Convention (‘freedom to see, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers’) and 17 (‘encourage the . . . dissemination of children’s books’) imply effective library provision, the SLA states. read more...
Debut author Katie Davies has won the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2010 for The Great Hamster Massacre (Simon and Schuster), a tale of a girl’s relentless quest for a pet hamster.
Frances Lincoln have announced their acquisition of Barn Owl Books. read more...
Ann Jungman, a popular author, started Barn Owl Books in 1999, carefully selecting out–of-print titles remembered as good reads by teachers, parents and grandparents alike, bringing the books back into print for a new generation of readers. She has been doing this, almost single-handed, ever since. Frances Lincoln have been Barn Owl’s distributors from the start.
The award is aimed at children aged 9 to 12 and the winning title is chosen by children in the borough. The award is now in its third year, with the selection and judging process running from March through to December.
Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkes is the winner of this year’s Blue Peter Book Awards. The results were announced on a special episode of Blue Peter broadcast 3 March on BBC One in honour of World Book Day. 
Tara Books, the independent publisher from Chennai, south India, has won the 2010 Bologna Ragazzi Award for the handmade children's title, Do! 
