Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Bloomsbury) has been voted viewers’ favourite Blue Peter Book Award winner of the last 20 years, while Amanda Li’s Rise Up (Buster) and Vashti Hardy’s Wildspark (Scholastic) have also won prizes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-05 02:44:21 UTC ]
Since 1988, the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism has been shining a light on journalists who call attention to vital current events or societal issues. The titles up for consideration this year tackle domestic violence, sexual harassment, mass... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-21 20:39:14 UTC ]
Jerry Craft’s story exploring ‘friendship, race, class and bullying in a fresh manner’ is the first graphic novel to win the long-running American children’s awardFor the first time, a graphic novel has won the Newbery Medal, the oldest and most prestigious children’s book award in the US. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-01-28 16:03:46 UTC ]
Now that High Book Award Season is coming to a close (right??), we can focus on the prize that really matters: Literary Review‘s Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Since 1993, the UK-based magazine has “honored the year’s most outstandingly awful scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel.”... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-11-27 15:51:03 UTC ]
Titan Books has signed Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and Blue Peter Book Award shortlisted author Polly Ho-Yen's debut adult novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-04 16:28:19 UTC ]
Lowborn by Kerry HudsonKerry Hudson is best known for her award-winning fiction. Her first book, Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, won the Scottish First Book Award and earned her a place on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list. Her latest book, Lowborn,... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-08-30 08:51:45 UTC ]
Interviews Mary E. Adams Genaro Kỳ Lý Smith was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, and raised in California. His first book, The Land Baron’s Sun: The Story of Lý Loc and His Seven Wives, won the 2015 Indie Book Award for best poetry collection. His other works... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-08-12 20:31:01 UTC ]
The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, voted on Saturday to rename the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, in response to the long-running discussion around prejudice in the author’s work. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Laura Ingalls Wilder was on the brink of having an award named in her honour, from America's Association for Library Service to Children, when in 1952 a reader complained to the publisher of Little House on the Prairie about what the reader found to be a deeply offensive statement about Native... Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Her Little House on the Prairie series has been criticised for racist stereotypes of Native Americans. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A children's book published by a tiny independent publisher has beaten off competition from authors such as Malala Yousafzai and Gill Lewis to win the Little Rebels Children's Book Award for Radical Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
New Zealand author Joy Cowley has been shortlisted for the highest international distinction given to the creators of children's books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2018-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Now in line for the overall Costa Book of the Year award–to be announced January 30–the five Costa category winners include three titles from HarperCollins UK imprints. The post Costa’s Book Award: Five Category Winners in the UK, One To Win Book of the Year appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
An Eagle in the Snow follows in the footsteps of Shadow, Kensuke's Kingdom and Private Peaceful. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2017-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo has won the overall Children’s Book Award for a record-breaking fourth time. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
German author-illustrator Wolf Erlbruch has won the 2017 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children’s book award. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo and Sarah Crossan are among the nominees for the Children’s Book Award 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
YA author Kathryn Evans has won the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award for her début novel, More of Me (Usborne). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
While the award aims for ever greater inclusivity, one of the newer rules closes the competition to some of the very best writing in EnglishMan Booker 2016 shortlist announced: UK, Canadian and US authors dominateIn 2013, back when I was working for independent Dublin publisher The Lilliput... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Guardian First Book Award is to close after 17 years due to a crowded "awards landscape" and the financial constraints of running the prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]