Waterstones Children's Book Prize

The Waterstone Children's Book Prize
Awarded forto uncover hidden talent in children's writing
Date21 March 2023
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byWaterstones
Formerly calledOttakar's Children's Book Prize
First awarded2005; 20 years ago (2005)
Websitewww.waterstones.com/the-waterstones-childrens-book-prize

The Waterstones 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 two or three books, depending on which category they are in.[1] The prize is awarded by British book retailer Waterstones.

It was originally called the Ottakar's Children's Book Prize, after the bookshop chain. When all Ottakar's stores were rebranded as Waterstone's following the HMV Group takeover in 2006, the prize also changed its name to become the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize.

Beginning in 2012, the prize was divided into three categories: Picture Books, Fiction 5–12, and Teen.[2] Each category winner receives £2,000 with an overall winner chosen from the three getting an additional £3,000 (thus the overall winner receives £5,000 in total).[3]

In 2016 the categories were renamed: Picture Books became Illustrated Books, Fiction 5–12 became Younger Fiction and the Teen category became Older Fiction.

Nominations and winners

2005

Category Author Title Result Ref.
Best Book Stuart Hill The Cry of the Icemark Winner [4]
M. I. McAllister Urchin of the Riding Stars Finalist
Barry Jonsberg The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull
Livi Michael The Whispering Road
Val Tyler The Time Wreccas
Julie Hearn The Merrybegot
Shannon Hale The Goose Girl
Ann Halam Siberia
Ellen Potter Olivia Kidney
Kes Gray Nelly the Monster Sitter
Bowering Sivers Jammy Dodgers on the Run
Kenneth Oppel Airborn

2006

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

2007

Category Author Title Result Ref.
Best Book Tom Becker Darkside Winner
Tom Kelly The Thing with Finn Finalist
Gareth P. Jones The Case of the Missing Cats
F. E. Higgins The Black Book of Secrets
Christopher Russell Smugglers
Philip Caveney Sebastian Darke
L. Brittney Nathan Fox: Dangerous Times
Michael Broad Jake Cake: The Werewolf Teacher
J. A. Henderson Bunker 10
Siobhan Dowd A Swift Pure Cry

2008

Category Author Title Result Ref.
Best Book Sally Nicholls Ways to Live Forever Winner
Emily Bearn Tumtum and Nutmeg Finalist
Sam Enthoven TIM Defender of the Earth
David Melling Stone Goblins
Matt Haig Shadow Forest
Jenny Valentine Broken Soup
Gabrielle Halberstam Blue Sky Freedom
Marie-Louise Jensen Between Two Seas
Oisín McGann Ancient Appetites

2009

Category Author Title Result Ref.
Best Book Michelle Harrison 13 Treasures Winner
Elen Caldecott How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant Finalist
Vanessa Curtis Zelah Green Queen of Clean
Steve Feasey Changeling
Ceci Jenkinson Gnomes Are Forever
Marie-Louise Jensen The Lady in the Tower
Rob Stevens Mapmaker's Monsters
Rachel Ward Numbers

2010

Category Author Title Result Ref.
Best Book Katie Davies The Great Hamster Massacre Winner [5]
Jeremy De Quidt The Toymaker Finalist [6]
Caro King The Seven Sorcerers
Victoria Forester The Girl Who Could Fly
Pat Walsh The Crowfield Curse
A. G. Taylor Meteorite Strike
Suzanne Lafleur Love, Aubrey
Lucy Christopher Flyaway
Laura Summers Desperate Measures

2011

Category Author Title Result Ref.
Best Book Sita Brahmachari Artichoke Hearts Winner [7]
Ruth Eastham The Memory Cage Finalist [8]
Candy Gourlay Tall Story
Janice Hardy The Pain Merchants
Curtis Jobling Wereworld: The Rise of the Wolf
Anna Kemp Fantastic Frankie and the Brain-Drain Machine
Irfan Master A Beautiful Lie
Jon Mayhew Mortlock
Rebecca Stead When You Reach Me

2012

Category Author Title Result Ref.
OVERALL Jonny Duddle The Pirates Next Door Winner [9][10]
Fiction 5-12 Liz Pichon The Brilliant World of Tom Gates Category winner [9]
Mackenzie Crook The Windvale Sprites Finalist [11]
Janet Foxley Muncle Trogg
Gill Lewis Sky Hawk
Alan Silberberg Milo and the Restart Button
Alex T. Smith Claude in the City
Picture Book Jonny Duddle The Pirates Next Door Category winner [9]
Marta Altés No! Finalist
Jon Klassen I Want My Hat Back
Ann Bonwill and Simon Rickerty I Don't Want to be a Pea!
Nadia Shireen Good Little Wolf
Chris Haughton A Bit Lost
Teen Jenny Downham You Against Me Category winner [9]
Annabel Pitcher My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Finalist
Veronica Roth Divergent
Ruta Sepetys Between Shades of Gray
Phil Earle Being Billy
Morgan Matson Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

2013

Category Author Title Result Ref.
OVERALL Annabel Pitcher Ketchup Clouds Winner
Fiction 5-12 R. J. Palacio Wonder Category winner
Catherine Constable The Wolf Princess Finalist [12][13]
Jennifer Gray Atticus Claw Breaks the Law
Helen Peters The Secret Hen House Theatre
Geoff Rodkey Chronicles of Egg: Deadweather and Sunrise
Jim Smith Barry Loser: I Am Not a Loser
Picture Book Rebecca Cobb Lunchtime Category winner
Jo Empson Rabbityness Finalist
Chris Haughton Oh No, George!
Anna Kemp The Worst Princess
Frann Preston-Gannon The Journey Home
Sam Usher Can You See Sassoon?
Teen Annabel Pitcher Ketchup Clouds Category winner
Rachel Hartman Seraphina Finalist
Laura Jarratt Skin Deep
S. J. Kincaid Insignia
Sarah J. Maas Throne of Glass
Andy Robb Geekhood: Close Encounters of the Girl Kind

2014 (10th anniversary)

Category Author Title Result Ref.
OVERALL Katherine Rundell Rooftoppers Winner [14][15][16]
Fiction 5–12 Katherine Rundell Rooftoppers Category winner
Soman Chainani The School for Good and Evil Finalist [17]
Piers Torday The Last Wild
Sandra Greaves Skull in the Wood
Emerald Fennell Shiverton Hall
Laura Dockrill Darcy Durdock
Picture Book Nicola O'Byrne Open Very Carefully Category winner
Elys Dolan Weasels Finalist [17]
Yasmeen Ismail Time for Bed, Fred
Gemma Merino The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water
Helen Hancocks Penguin in Peril
Courtney Dicmas Harold Finds a Voice
Teen Holly Smale Geek Girl Category winner
Alexia Casale The Bone Dragon Finalist [17][18]
Dawn O'Porter Paper Aeroplanes
Ruta Sepetys Out of the Easy
Emily Murdoch If You Find Me
Erin Lange Butter

2015

Category Author Title Result Ref.
OVERALL Rob Biddulph Blown Away Winner [19][20][21]
Fiction 5-12 Robin Stevens Murder Most Unladylike Category winner
Harriet Whitehorn with Beck Moor (illustrator) Violet and the Pearl of the Orient Finalist [22]
Anne Booth Girl with a White Dog
GR Gemin Cowgirl
Polly Ho-Yen Boy in the Tower
Lara Williamson A Boy Called Hope
Picture Book Rob Biddulph Blown Away Category winner
Sophy Henn Where Bear? Finalist [22]
Victoria Turnbull The Sea Tiger
Steve Antony The Queen's Hat
Suzanne Barton The Dawn Chorus
Lucy Letherland Atlas of Adventures
Teen Sally Green Half Bad Category winner
Leslye Walton The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender Finalist [22]
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald The Apple Tart of Hope
Kim Skater Smart
Louise O'Neill Only Ever Yours
Erin Lange Dead Ends

2016

Category Author Title Result Ref.
OVERALL David Solomon My Brother Is a Superhero Winner [23]
Illustrated Book David Litchfield The Bear and the Piano Category winner [23]
Naomi Howarth The Crow's Tale Finalist [24]
Matty Long Super Happy Magic Forest
Nicholas John Frith Hector and Hummingbird
David Barrow Have You Seen Elephant?
Lorraine Carey and Migy Blanco Cinderella's Sister and the Big Bad Wolf
Older Fiction Lisa Williamson The Art of Being Normal Category winner [23]
Melinda Salisbury The Sin Eater's Daughter Finalist [25][24][26]
Moïra Fowley-Doyle The Accident Season
Lisa Heathfield Seed
Jandy Nelson I'll Give You the Sun
Leo Hunt 13 Days of Midnight
Younger Fiction David Solomon My Brother Is a Superhero Category winner [23]
Sibéal Pounder Witch Wars Finalist [24]
Katherine Woodfine The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow
Kevin Sands The Blackthorn Key
Shane Hegarty Darkmouth
Crystal Chan Bird

2017

Category Author Title Result Ref.
OVERALL Kiran Millwood Hargrave The Girl of Ink and Stars Winner [27]
Illustrated Book Lizzy Stewart There's a Tiger in the Garden Category winner
Fabi Santiago Tiger in a Tutu Finalist [28]
Francesca Sanna The Journey
Duncan Beedie The Bear Who Stared
Matt Robertson Super Stan
Meg McLaren Life Is Magic
Older Fiction Patrice Lawrence Orangeboy Category winner
Nilanjana Roy The Wildings Finalist [28]
Nicola Yoon The Sun Is Also a Star
Lisa Heathfield Paper Butterflies
Lindsay Eager Hour of the Bees
Gavriel Savit Anna and the Swallow Man
Younger Fiction Kiran Millwood Hargrave The Girl of Ink and Stars Category winner [27]
Lauren Wolk Wolf Hollow Finalist [28]
Ross Welford Time Travelling with a Hamster
Peter Bunzl Cogheart
Laura James Captain Pug
MG Leonard Beetle Boy

2018

Category Author Title Result Ref.
OVERALL Angie Thomas The Hate U Give Winner [29][30][31]
Illustrated Book Joe Todd-Stanton The Secret of Black Rock Category winner
Louise Greig The Night Box Finalist
Matt Carr Superbat
Sandra Dieckmann Leaf
Simon Philip I Really Want the Cake
Robert Starling Fergal Is Fuming!
Older Fiction Angie Thomas The Hate U Give Category winner
Catherine Barter Troublemakers Finalist
Pam Smy Thornhill
Emily Suvada This Mortal Coil
Emily Bain Murphy The Disappearances
Alice Broadway Ink
Younger Fiction Jessica Townsend Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow Category winner
Maz Evans Who Let the Gods Out? Finalist
Kieran Larwood The Legend of Podkin One-Ear
Lisa Thompson The Goldfish Boy
Greg James and Chris Smith Kid Normal
Helena Duggan A Place Called Perfect

2019

Category Author Title Result Ref.
OVERALL Onjali Q. Raúf The Boy at the Back of the Class Winner [30]
Illustrated Book Lauren Ace and Jenny Løvlie The Girl Category winner
Emily Haworth-Booth The King Who Banned the Dark Finalist [32]
John Bond Mini Rabbit Not Lost
Vashti Harrison Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Jessica Love Julián Is a Mermaid
Michael Whaite 100 Dogs
Older Fiction Tomi Adeyemi Children of Blood and Bone Category winner
Tracy Darnton The Truth About Lies Finalist [32]
Elizabeth Acevedo The Poet X
Malcolm Duffy Me Mam. Me Dad. Me.
Ele Fountain Boy 87
Christelle Dabos A Winter's Promise
Younger Fiction Onjali Q. Raúf The Boy at the Back of the Class Category winner [30]
P.G. Bell The Train to Impossible Places Finalist [32]
Ewa Jozefkowicz The Mystery of the Colour Thief
Sophie Anderson The House with Chicken Legs
Andy Shepherd The Boy Who Grew Dragons
Vashti Hardy Brightstorm: A Sky-Ship Adventure

2020

Category Author Title Result Ref.
OVERALL Nathan Bryon Look Up! Winner [33][34][35]
Illustrated Book Nathan Bryon Look Up! Category winner [36]
Graham Carter Otto Blotter, Bird Spotter Finalist
Kate Read One Fox
Beatrice Blue Once Upon a Unicorn Horn
Rose Robbins Me and My Sister
Ben Rothery Hidden Planet
Older Fiction Liz Hyder Bearmouth Category winner [36]
Emma Smith-Barton The Million Pieces of Neena Gill Finalist
Tamsin Winter Jemima Small Versus the Universe
Samira Ahmed Internment
gal-dem I Will Not Be Erased: Our Stories About Growing Up as People of Colour
Holly Jackson A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Younger Fiction Sharna Jackson High-Rise Mystery Category winner
Kirsty Applebaum The Middler Finalist
Meg Grehan The Deepest Breath
Lucy Strange Our Castle, the Sea
Sam Copeland Charlie Changes into a Chicken
Jasbinder Bilan Asha and the Spirit Bird

2021

Category Author Title Result Ref.
OVERALL Elle McNicoll A Kind of Spark Winner [37][38][39]
Illustrated Book Bethan Stevens The Grumpy Fairies Category winner [37]
Eva Eland Where Happiness Begins Finalist
Katie Cottle The Blue Giant
Amyra Leon Freedom, We Sing
Devon Holzwarth Found You
Dawn Coulter-Cruttenden Bear Shaped
Older Fiction Darren Charlton Wranglestone Category winner [37]
Dean Atta The Black Flamingo Finalist
Jordan Ifueko Raybearer
Sophie Gonzales Only Mostly Devastated
A. M. Dassu Boy, Everywhere
Danielle Jawando And the Stars Were Burning Brightly
Younger Fiction Elle McNicoll A Kind of Spark Category winner [37][38]
Kereen Getten When Life Gives You Mangoes Finalist
Jenny Pearson The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates
Alastair Chisholm Orion Lost
Annabelle Sami Llama Out Loud!
Francesca Gibbons A Clock of Stars: The Shadow Moth

2022

Category Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
OVERALL Hannah Gold, illustrated by Levi Pinfold (HarperCollins Children's Books) The Last Bear HarperCollins Children's Books Winner [40]
Illustrated Book Harry Woodgate Grandad's Camper Andersen Press Category winner [41]
Andy Harkness Wolfboy Bloomsbury Children's Finalist [42][43]
Lu Fraser, illustrated by Mark McKinley The Viking Who Liked Icing Bloomsbury Children's
Steve Small The Duck Who Didn't Like Water Simon & Schuster
Helen Kellock Out to Sea Thames & Hudson
Barr Falls Alone! Farshore
Older Fiction Ciara Smyth (Andersen Press) Not My Problem Andersen Press Category winner [41]
Femi Fadugba The Upper World PRH Children's Finalist [42][43]
Namina Forna The Gilded Ones Usborne
Manjeet Mann The Crossing PRH Children's
Michelle Quach Not Here to Be Liked Usborne
Angeline Boulley Firekeeper's Daughter OneWorld
Younger Fiction Hannah Gold, illustrated by Levi Pinfold The Last Bear HarperCollins Children's Books Category winner [41]
Benjamin Dean, illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow Simon & Schuster Finalist [42][43]
Kelly Yang, illustrated by Maike Plenzke Front Desk Knights Of
Efua Traoré Children of the Quicksands The Chicken House
Mark Bradley Bumble and Snug and the Angry Pirates Hodder Children's Books
B. B. Alston, illustrated by Godwin Akpan Amari and the Night Brothers Farshore

2023

Category Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
OVERALL Nadia Mikail The Cats We Meet Along the Way Guppy Publishing Winner [44]
Illustrated Book Kim Hillyard Gretel the Wonder Mammoth PRH Children's Category winner [44]
Georgia Buckthorn, illustrated by Isabella Mazzanti The Fairy Garden Ivy Kids Finalist [45][46][47]
Emma Carlisle What Do You See When You Look at a Tree? Big Picture Press
Rachael Davis, illustrated by Beatrix Hatcher I Am NOT a Prince Hachette Children's Group
Stephen Hogtun The Station Cat DK
Jordan Stephens, illustrated by Beth Suzanna The Missing Piece Bloomsbury Children's Books
Older Fiction Nadia Mikail The Cats We Meet Along the Way Guppy Publishing Category winner [44]
Erik J Brown All That's Left in the World Hachette Children's Group Finalist [45][46][47]
Lewis Hancox Welcome to St Hell Scholastic
Christine Pillainayagam Ellie Pillai Is Brown Faber and Faber
Cynthia So If You Still Recognise Me Stripes Publishing
Angharad Walker Once Upon a Fever The Chicken House
Younger Fiction M T Khan Nura and the Immortal Palace Walker Books Category winner [44]
David Farr The Book of Stolen Dreams Usborne Publishing Finalist [45][46][47]
Hannah Moffatt Small! Everything with Words
Lee Newbery The Last Firefox PRH Children's
Varsha Shah Ajay and the Mumbai Sun The Chicken House
J T Williams, illustrated by Simone Douglas   The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger Farshore

2024 (20th anniversary)

Category Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
OVERALL Pari Thomson Greenwild: The World Behind the Door Macmillan Winner [48]
Illustrated Book Chloe Savage The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish Walker Books Category winner [48]
Marcela Ferreira, illustrated by Sally Agar The Queen Next Door Orchard Books Finalist [49][50][51]
Natalie Labarre Incredible Jobs You've (Probably) Never Heard Of Nosy Crow
Ellan Rankin The Secret Elephant Wren & Rook
Kate Rolfe Wolf and Bear Two Hoots
Andrew Sanders, illustrated by Aysha Awwad Whose Dog Is This? Macmillan
Older Fiction Kayvion Lewis Thieves' Gambit S&S Category winner [48]
Nick Brooks Promise Boys Macmillan Finalist [49][50][51]
Mel Darbon What the World Doesn't See Usborne
Bea Fitzgerald Girl, Goddess, Queen Penguin
Ayaan Mohamud You Think You Know Me Usborne
Alexandra Sheppard Friendship Never Ends Knights Of
Younger Fiction Pari Thomson Greenwild: The World Behind the Door Macmillan Category winner [48]
J J Arcanjo Crookhaven: The School for Thieves Hodder Finalist [49][50][51]
Emily-Jane Clark The Beasts of Knobbly Bottom: Attack of the Vampire Sheep! Scholastic
Lizzie Huxley-Jones Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend Knights Of
Beth Lincoln The Swifts Puffin
G M Linton My Name Is Sunshine Simpson Usborne

See also

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