Children's Book Prize Archive
Costa Children's Book of the Year Award
(Formerly Whitbread Children's Book of the Year)
Annual
Sponsor: Costa
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Management and main contact:
Sunita Rappai
Karen Earl Ltd
66 Great Suffolk Street
London SE1 0BL
tel: 020 7202 2822
fax: 020 7202 2802
email: sunita@karen-earl.co.uk
Book Trade administration:
The Booksellers Association
Minster House
272 Vauxhall Bridge
London SW1V 1BA
tel: 020 7834 5477
fax: 020 7834 8812
The awards began as the Whitbread awards in 1971 and the first award for a children's novel was given in 1972. The format changed in 1985 when the Whitbread Book of the Year was launched, and in 1996, children's books were taken out of the main category and given a prize of their own.
Entries must be by authors who have been resident in the UK or Eire for three years and whose book has been published between 1 November and 31 October of the year of the prize. The prize is £5,000. The winner is announced in January. 1999 was the first year the winner of the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award was also considered for the overall Whitbread Book of the Year Award, with a prize of £25,000.
In 2006 Costa took over as the main sponsor of the award, which followed with a renaming of the award to the 'Costa Book Awards'
The 2011 Category Award Winners will be announced in January 2012.
Most Recent Winner
Previous Winners
How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen, Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake (Cape)
The Emperor's Winding Sheet, Jill Paton Walsh (Macmillan)
