I wondered that? I guess it bothers me because Nicola Yoon is such a star author. It seems unlikely that many other authors would have such have such name recognition.
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I wondered that? I guess it bothers me because Nicola Yoon is such a star author. It seems unlikely that many other authors would have such have such name recognition.
And the winner is Alex Wheatle.
Costa Award shortlist in the Children's Books category:
Brian Conaghan, The Bombs That Brought Us Together
Patrice Lawrence, Orangeboy
Francesca Simon, The Monstrous Child
Ross Welford, Time Travelling With a Hamster
The winner will be announced on 3 January. It will go forward, along with the other category winners, to be considered for the Costa Book of the Year, to be awarded on 31 January.
The winner is Brian Conaghan. Along with the other category winners, it will be considered for the Costa Book of the Year, to be awarded on 31 January. Given that last year's Children's Book category winner won the overall prize, which was only the second time that had happened, I suspect it won't happen again. I've not read Conaghan's novel, but I didn't care much for his When Mr Dog Bites, which was on the Carnegie shortlist in 2015.
Brian Conaghan didn't win Costa Book of the Year.
Here is the longlist for the Carnegie Medal, in alphabetical order by author surname. The shortlist, usually eight books, will be announced on 16 March.
Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot by Horatio Clare (Firefly Press)
Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Pan Macmillan)
Unbecoming by Jenny Downham (David Fickling Books)
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon (Orion Children’s Books)
How Not to Disappear by Clare Furniss (Simon & Schuster)
The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock (Faber & Faber)
Whisper to Me by Nick Lake (Bloomsbury)
Beetle Boy by M.G. Leonard (Chicken House)
The Stars at Oktober Bend by Glenda Millard (Old Barn Books)
Pax by Sara Pennypacker (HarperCollins)
Railhead by Philip Reeve (Oxford University Press)
Beck by Mal Peet with Meg Rosoff (Walker Books)
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt (Andersen Press)
The Marvels by Brian Selznick (Scholastic)
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (Puffin)
Island by Nicky Singer (Caboodle Books)
Dreaming the Bear by Mimi Thebo (Oxford University Press)
Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford (HarperCollins)
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk (Corgi)
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (Andersen Press)
Here is the longlist for the Carnegie Medal, in alphabetical order by author surname. The shortlist, usually eight books, will be announced on 16 March.
Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot by Horatio Clare (Firefly Press)
Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Pan Macmillan)
Unbecoming by Jenny Downham (David Fickling Books)
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon (Orion Children’s Books)
How Not to Disappear by Clare Furniss (Simon & Schuster)
The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock (Faber & Faber)
Whisper to Me by Nick Lake (Bloomsbury)
Beetle Boy by M.G. Leonard (Chicken House)
The Stars at Oktober Bend by Glenda Millard (Old Barn Books)
Pax by Sara Pennypacker (HarperCollins)
Railhead by Philip Reeve (Oxford University Press)
Beck by Mal Peet with Meg Rosoff (Walker Books)
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt (Andersen Press)
The Marvels by Brian Selznick (Scholastic)
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (Puffin)
Island by Nicky Singer (Caboodle Books)
Dreaming the Bear by Mimi Thebo (Oxford University Press)
Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford (HarperCollins)
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk (Corgi)
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (Andersen Press)
And here's the shortlist, with the judges' age recommendations:
Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth by Frank Cottrell Boyce (8+)
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon (11+)
The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock (13+)
The Stars at Oktober Bend by Glenda Millard (12+)
Beck by Mal Peet with Meg Rosoff (16+)
Railhead by Philip Reeve (12+)
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (13+)
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk (10+)
Five and a half titles by women, two and a half by men. Cottrell Boyce, Peet, Reeve and Rosoff are all past winners and Sepetys is a past shortlistee. If Beck wins, Peet will be only the second posthumous winner. Beck also has the highest age rating I've seen the judges give a book - there's an advisory note on its content here. Three novels by British-based writers, three by American-based, two by Australian-based.
As I've done every year since 2009, I'll be reading the whole shortlist, hopefully in time for the winner being announced on 19 June.
Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth by Frank Cottrell Boyce (8+)
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon (11+)
The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock (13+)
The Stars at Oktober Bend by Glenda Millard (12+)
Beck by Mal Peet with Meg Rosoff (16+)
Railhead by Philip Reeve (12+)
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (13+)
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk (10+)
Five and a half titles by women, two and a half by men. Cottrell Boyce, Peet, Reeve and Rosoff are all past winners and Sepetys is a past shortlistee. If Beck wins, Peet will be only the second posthumous winner. Beck also has the highest age rating I've seen the judges give a book - there's an advisory note on its content here. Three novels by British-based writers, three by American-based, two by Australian-based.
As I've done every year since 2009, I'll be reading the whole shortlist, hopefully in time for the winner being announced on 19 June.
And, a little belatedly, the winner was Ruta Sepetys. I didn't think that book was as good has her previous shortlistee, Between Shades of Gray, but congratulations to her. This was my ninth year of reading the whole shortlist, and I've so far never managed to pick the winner, so I probably jinxed Glenda Millard's chances this year.