Children's Book Prize Archive
Guardian Children's Fiction Award
Annual
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Awarded to an outstanding work of fiction (not picture books) for children written by a British or Commonwealth author, first published in the UK during the calendar year preceding the year in which the award is presented. The winner is chosen by a panel of authors and the review editor for The Guardian's children's books section.
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Publisher entry only
Prize: £1,500
Next award: October 2011
Most Recent Winner
2010Ghost Hunter, Michelle Paver (Orion)
Previous Winners
2009Exposure, Mal Peet (Walker Books)
2008The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness (Walker Books)
2007Finding Violet Park, Jenny Valentine (HarperCollins)
2006A Darkling Plain, Philip Reeve
2005The New Policeman, Kate Thompson
2004How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff
2003The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (Jonathan Cape/David Fickling)
2002Saffy's Angel, Hilary McKay (Hodder)
2001The Seeing Stone, Kevin Crossley-Holland (Orion)
2000The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson (Transworld)
1999The Sterkarm Handshake, Susan Price (Scholastic)
1998Fire, Bed and Bone, Henrietta Branford (Walker)
1997Junk, Melvin Burgess (Penguin)
1996Joint Winners:
Northern Lights, Philip Pulman (Scholastic) and
The Sherwood Hero, Alison Prince (Macmillan)
Northern Lights, Philip Pulman (Scholastic) and
The Sherwood Hero, Alison Prince (Macmillan)
1995MapHead, Lesley Howarth (Walker Books)
1994The Mennyms, Sylvia Waugh (Julia MacRae)
1993Low Tide, William Mayne (Cape)
1992Joint Winners:
Paper Faces, Rachel Anderson (Oxford University Press) and
The Exiles, Hilary McKay (Gollancz)
Paper Faces, Rachel Anderson (Oxford University Press) and
The Exiles, Hilary McKay (Gollancz)
1991The Kingdom by the Sea, Robert Westall (Methuen)
1990Goggle-Eyes, Anne Fine (Hamish Hamilton)
1989A Pack of Lies, Geraldine McCaughrean (Oxford University Press)
1988The Runaways, Ruth Thomas (Hutchinson)
1987The True Story of Spit MacPhee, James Aldridge (Viking Kestrel)
1986Henry's Leg, Ann Pilling (Viking Kestrel)
1985What is the Truth, Ted Hughes (Faber)
1984The Sheep-Pig, Dick King-Smith (Gollancz)
1983Village by the Sea, Anita Desai (Heinemann)
1982Goodnight Mr Tom, Michelle Magorian (Kestrel)
1981The Sentinels, Peter Carter (Oxford University Press)
1980The Vandal, Ann Schlee (Macmillan)
1979Conrad's War, Andrew Davies (Blackie)
1978A Charmed Life, Diana Wynne Jones (Macmillan)
1977The Blue Hawk, Peter Dickinson (Gollancz)
1976The Peppermint Pig, Nina Bawden (Gollancz)
1975Gran at Coalgate, Winifred Cawley (Oxford University Press)
1974The Iron Lily, Barbara Willard (Longman Young Books)
1973Watership Down, Richard Adams (Rex Collings)
1972A Likely Lad, Gillian Avery (Collins)
1971The Guardians, John Christopher (Hamilton)
1970Flambards, K M Peyton (Oxford University Press)
1969The Whispering Mountain, Joan Aiken (Cape)
1968The Owl Service, Alan Garner (Collins)
1967Devil-in-a-Fog, Leon Garfield (Constable)
