Guardian Award
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The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award is a prominent award for works of children's literature by British or Commonwealth authors, published in the UK during the preceding year. The award has been given annually since 1967, and is decided by a panel of authors and the review editor for The Guardian's children's books section. It may be compared with the American Newbery Award.
The Guardian also promotes a literary prize for adult fiction, see Guardian First Book Award.
List of Prize Winners
- 2004 Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now (Puffin)
- 2003 Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (David Fickling)
- 2002 Sonya Hartnett, Thursday's Child (Walker)
- 2001 Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Seeing Stone (Orion)
- 2000 Jacqueline Wilson, The Illustrated Mum (Transworld)
- 1999 Susan Price, The Sterkarm Handshake (Scholastic)
- 1998 Henrietta Branford, Fire, Bed and Bone (Walker)
- 1997 Melvin Burgess, Junk (Penguin)
- 1996 Joint Winners:
- Philip Pullman, Northern Lights (Scholastic; published in the U.S. as The Golden Compass)
- Alison Prince, The Sherwood Hero (Macmillan)
- 1995 Lesley Howarth, MapHead (Walker Books)
- 1994 Sylvia Waugh, The Mennyms (Julia MacRae)
- 1993 William Mayne, Low Tide (Cape)
- 1992 Joint Winners:
- Rachel Anderson, Paper Faces (Oxford University Press)
- Hilary McKay, The Exiles (Gollancz)
- 1991 Robert Westall, The Kingdom by the Sea (Methuen)
- 1990 Anne Fine, Goggle-Eyes (Hamish Hamilton)
- 1989 Geraldine McCaughrean, A Pack of Lies (Oxford University Press)
- 1988 Ruth Thomas, The Runaways (Hutchinson)
- 1987 James Aldridge, The True Story of Spit MacPhee (Viking Kestrel)
- 1986 Ann Pilling, Henry's Leg (Viking Kestrel)
- 1985 Ted Hughes, What is the Truth (Faber)
- 1984 Dick King-Smith, The Sheep-Pig (Gollancz) (this book served as the basis for the movie Babe)
- 1983 Anita Desai, Village by the Sea (Heinemann)
- 1982 Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mr Tom (Kestrel)
- 1981 Peter Carter, The Sentinels (Oxford University Press)
- 1980 Ann Schlee, The Vandal (Macmillan)
- 1979 Andrew Davies, Conrad's War (Blackie)
- 1978 Diana Wynne Jones, Charmed Life (Macmillan)
- 1977 Peter Dickinson, The Blue Hawk (Gollancz)
- 1976 Nina Bawden, The Peppermint Pig (Gollancz)
- 1975 Winifred Cawley, Gran at Coalgate (Oxford University Press)
- 1974 Barbara Willard, The Iron Lily (Longman Young Books)
- 1973 Richard Adams, Watership Down (Rex Collings)
- 1972 Gillian Avery, A Likely Lad (Collins)
- 1971 John Christopher, The Guardians (Hamilton)
- 1970 K M Peyton, Flambards (Oxford University Press)
- 1969 Joan Aiken, The Whispering Mountain (Cape)
- 1968 Alan Garner, The Owl Service (Collins)
- 1967 Leon Garfield, Devil-in-a-Fog (Constable)
See also
- Blue Peter Book Awards
- Carnegie Medal
- Children's Laureate
- Kate Greenaway Medal
- Nestle Smarties Book Prize
External links
- Guardian Award (http://books.guardian.co.uk/childrensfictionprize2004/0,14765,1263070,00.html)