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Waterstone's Children's 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 three books. The prize is awarded by British book retailer Waterstones Waterstones, formerly Waterstone's, is a British book retailer that operates 311 shops, mainly in the United Kingdom and also other nearby countries. As of February 2014, it employs around 3,500 staff in the UK and Europe. An average-sized Wa .... Beginning in 2012, the prize was divided into three categories: Picture Books, Fiction 5–12, and Teen. 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). Recipients References External links {{Portal, Children's literature Official Waterston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, that have only been identified as children's literature in the eighteenth century, and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, that adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented, is difficult to trace. Even after printing became widespread, many classic "children's" tales were originally created for adults and later adapted for a younger audience. Since the fifteenth century much literature has been aimed specifically at children, often with a moral or religious message. Children's literature has been shaped by religious sources, like Puritan traditions, or by more philosophical and scienti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TIM Defender Of The Earth
''TIM, Defender of the Earth'' is a 2008 young adult science fiction novel by Sam Enthoven, written in the spirit of classic monster movies such as Godzilla and Gamera. It was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. Plot summary The story begins with the newly appointed Prime Minister, Mr Sinclair, being taken by Dr Mckienzy to a top-secret underground lab. There he views TIM (Tyrannosaur Improved Module) sleeping in a giant tank. Mckienzy explains that the military have been developing hybrids to fight their wars, but all except Tim have died. Mr Sinclair tells her that he considers her experiment a failure and instructs her to close it down and euthanize Tim. Meanwhile, a class visits the British Museum. Chris meets a security guard, who shows him a strange bracelet, which glows when Chris goes near it. The guard clamps it on his wrist and tells him that he is now joined to the Defender of the Earth. Dr Mckienzy floods Tim's enclosure with gas, to poison him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Half Bad
''Half Bad'' is a 2014 young adult fantasy novel written by English author Sally Green that won the 2015 Waterstones Teen Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Branford Boase Award. On 3 March 2014, the book set the Guinness World Record as the 'Most Translated Book by a Debut Author, Pre-publication', having sold in 45 languages prior to its UK publication by Penguin books. Plot ''Half Bad'' is set in modern-day Europe, mainly in Britain, where witches and humans (fains) live together. There are two primary types of witches: Blood witches (generally oppressed and written off as evil) and Fairborn witches (the main population). The 17-year-old protagonist, Nathan, is half Fairborn and half Blood, or a Half Code. His mother is dead, and his father, Marcus, is known as the most powerful and the smartest Blood witch in the world. Due his parentage, Nathan's every move is monitored by the Council of Fairborn Witches. He has to follow certain rules, but when he breaks o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Most Unladylike
''Murder Most Unladylike'' is a 2014 children's mystery novel by British-American author Robin Stevens. It follows two schoolgirls in 1930s England solving their first murder mystery and is the first book in the 'Murder Most Unladylike' series. The story is written in the style of a casebook and follows two fictional boarding schoolgirl detectives, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong, as they try to find the murderer of their science teacher. The book has been nominated for several awards, including the Carnegie Medal. In the US, the book was published under the name ''Murder is Bad Manners''. Plot The two principal characters, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are students in Deepdean School for Girls. They are the founding members of their school's Detective Society and its only members. Daisy is the president of the detective society and Hazel is its secretary and vice president. Near the beginning of the book, Hazel stumbles upon the corpse of their Science teacher, Miss Bell, in the gy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Out Of The Easy
''Out of the Easy'' is a 2013 novel by Ruta Sepetys. It is her second published novel and was listed as a 2014 Best Children's Book of the Year from the Children's Book Committee of Bank Street College of Education. It features Josie Moraine, a young woman in the 1950s French Quarter of New Orleans who struggles to escape her family and become the author of her own destiny. The novel became a ''New York Times'' bestseller and was listed as an Editor's Choice in the ''New York Times'' on February 15, 2013. Sepetys has said that ''Out of the Easy'' was born from her discovery of the biography ''The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld'' and her interest in post-war America, which, contrary to her expectations, was full of "suffering and secrets." She also attributes her interest in New Orleans to a gift of vintage opera glasses Opera glasses, also known as theater binoculars or Galilean binoculars, are compact, low-power optical magnification devices, usually used a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geek Girl (novel)
"Geek girl" is a 20th-century term, signifying a gendered subgenre within the modern geek subculture. History The return of the word "geek" in the mid-1990s can be traced to the popularization of workplace computing and the Internet and the dot-com bubble of 1995–2000. The early days of the reclaimed use of "geek" were strongly associated with computers and information technology and the majority of practitioners were male. Similarly, in a 1996 study of high school cultures, linguist Mary Bucholtz noted that "nerd status is overwhelmingly associated with males." Two studies by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) quantified the gap between men and women in computing and the continuing problems recruiting and retaining female programmers. The term "Geekgirl" was coined by Rosie Cross in 1993 as the title of her online cyberfeminist magazine. This is Australia's longest running online publication and in September 1996 it was exhibited at the New Museum of Contempor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Very Carefully
''Open Very Carefully: A Book With Bite!'' is a 2013 children's picture book by Nick Bromley and illustrated by Nicola O'Byrne. It is about a crocodile that disrupts a narrator's reading of The Ugly Duckling. Reception A review in ''Publishers Weekly'' of ''Open Very Carefully'' wrote "This is a lively read with many prompts for interactivity and a format that makes it a good choice for both lap reads and preschool circle time ...", while ''Kirkus Reviews'' called it "A blandly nonthreatening alternative to Emily Gravett’s ''Wolves'' (2006) and like encounters with metafictional characters." ''Open Very Carefully'' has also been reviewed by ''Booklist'', ''School Library Journal'', '' Horn Book Guides'', and Booktrust. Some teachers have been concerned that it reinforces stereotypes. ''Open Very Carefully'' won the 2014 Waterstones Children's Book Prize for picture books, was shortlisted for the 2014 UKLA Book Award in the 3 to 6 category, shortlisted for the 2014 Oscar's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seraphina (novel)
''Seraphina'' is a 2012 fantasy novel by Rachel Hartman and is her debut novel. The book was published on July 10, 2012, by Random House Publishing and was ranked at number 8 The New York Times Best Seller list in its first week of publication. ''Seraphina'' was awarded the 2013 William C. Morris Award for the best young adult work by a debut author. Foreign language rights to the novel have been sold in twenty languages, including Spanish and Hebrew. A sequel entitled '' Shadow Scale'' came out in 2015,. A companion novel '' Tess of the Road'' set in the same milieu was published in 2018, followed by its own sequel, '' In the Serpent's Wake'' (2022). Synopsis ''Seraphina'' is set in the kingdom of Goredd and follows the sixteen-year-old Seraphina, a court musician. She's drawn into a murder mystery when the Crown Prince of Goredd, Rufus, is found decapitated in a manner that insinuates that he was murdered by dragons. The murder occurs on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wonder (Palacio Novel)
''Wonder'' is a children's novel written by R. J. Palacio, published on February 14, 2012. ''Wonder'' was inspired by an incident where her son started to cry after noticing a girl with a severe facial deformity. Fearing her son would react badly, Palacio attempted to remove him from the situation so as not to upset the girl and her family but ended up worsening the situation. Natalie Merchant's song of the same name made her realize that the incident could illustrate a valuable lesson. Palacio was inspired by Merchant's lyrics and she began writing. She named the book directly after the song and used the song's chorus as the prologue of the first chapter. Several spin-offs, including the calendar book ''365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne's Book of Precepts'', ''We're All Wonders'', ''Auggie and Me'', and ''White Bird'' have been published. A film adaptation was released in 2017, of which a spin-off sequel/prequel film (adapting ''White Bird'') followed in 2022. Plot August "Augg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ketchup Clouds
''Ketchup Clouds'' is a 2012 teen novel by Annabel Pitcher. It tells the story of a girl about the age of 15 who has a dark secret she is afraid to confess to anyone but her pen pal, a murderer on Death Row. It won the Waterstone's Children's 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 there .... Synopsis ''Ketchup Clouds'' is written in a series of letters from "Zoe", her chosen alias, who lives on fiction road in England to Mr. S Harris, a criminal on death row in America. Zoe initially starts writing to Mr. Harris specifically because she believes they must share the same guilt as, according to her view, they both killed a person they loved. The events leading up to Zoe's "crime" begin around the end of the term before summer break. After her father receiving news t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brilliant World Of Tom Gates
Tom Gates is a British series of fiction and graphic books written by Liz Pichon taking the form of an illustrated diary written by the eponymous schoolboy. There are a total of 21 published Tom Gates books, as of 2021. The first book in the series, ''The Brilliant World of Tom Gates'', was published in 2011 and won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, a Red House Children's Book Award and a Waterstones Children's Book Prize. As of 2023 the books have sold more than 14 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 47 languages. Background Aged around 10 years old, Tom is the younger of the two children of Frank and Rita Gates, and the younger brother of Delia. He attends Oakfield Primary School where he is in Mr Fullerman's Class 5F, under headmaster Mr Keen. Children in his class include Marcus Meldrew (who sits next to and consistently annoys Tom in class), and Amy Porter (who also sits next to Tom, but whom Tom hopes to impress). Also in his year at Oakfield is his best friend D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
13 Treasures
''13 Treasures'' is a 2009 juvenile fantasy novel written by Michelle Harrison; it is the first entry in the trilogy "''The Thirteen Treasures"''. It features the story of a young girl named Tanya, who has the ability to see mythical creatures. Awards ''13 Treasures'' won the 2009 Waterstone's Children's 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 there .... Synopsis ''13 Treasures'' follows its lead character, 13-year-old girl Tanya, who has the rare ability to see and hear the fairies and other creatures who inhabit the woods and many other places. But over the years Tanya has learned to lie about the fairies if something is wrong to anyone, because she has landed herself on a therapist and doctor's couch by this ability. Tanya summers with her grandmother in Elvesde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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