Steve Smallman's The Monkey with a Bright Blue Bottom (Little Tiger Press) has been shortlisted for the Sheffield Children's Book Award 2008

Marie-Louise Jensen's Between Two Seas (OUP) was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2008

Fiona Dunbar's Toonhead (Orchard) has been shortlisted for the Southwark Children's Book Award

THREE SAS members had books shortlisted for the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award: Malcolm Rose, for Kiss of Death (Usborne), Joanna Kenrick for Red Tears (Faber) and Tabitha Suzuma for From Where I Stand (Random House)

Kate Cann's Leaving Poppy (Scholastic) won the Southern Schools Book Award and has also been shortlisted for the Angus Award and the Renfrewshire Award

Tanya Landman's Apache (Walker Books) has been shortlisted for the Calderdale Children's Book of the Year and is longlisted for the Carnegie

Sally Nicholls' Ways to Live Forever (Marion Lloyd Books) has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2008

Andrew Strong's Oswald and the End of the World (Scholastic) is currently shortlisted for the Stockton Prize

Sandra Glover's Message from Mia (Andersen Press) has been shortlisted for the Nottingham Book Award

Nicola Morgan's The Highwayman's Footsteps (Walker Books) has been shortlisted for the Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Book of the Year.

Vivian French's The Robe of Skulls (Walker Books) has been shortlisted for the Stockton Children's Book Prize 2008

Charles Butler's The Lurkers has been shortlisted for the 2007 Southern Schools Book Award (winner to be announced next January).

Mary Hoffman's The Falconer's Knot (Bloomsbury) and Sally Prue’s The Truth Sayer (OUP) were both shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2007. Sally's book has also been longlisted for the John Lewis Solihull Book Award, and shortlisted for the West Sussex Book Award, all 2007

Pippa Goodhart’s Raven Boy (Catnip) has been shortlisted for the Stockton Children’s Book Award 2008

Ann Turnbull’s Forged in the Fire (Walker Books) and Sandra Glover's Don't Tell (Andersen Press) have both been shortlisted for the Falkirk RED Book Award (to be awarded January 2008)

Mary Hooper's The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose (Bloomsbury) has been shortlisted for the Kingston Book Award, 2007

Jean Ure’s Dazzling Danny (Roaring Good Reads) has been shortlisted for the Leicester Award, 2007

Dennis Hamley's Ellen's People (Walker Books) was shortlisted for the Hampshire Book Award 2007

Sophie McKenzie's first book Girl, Missing won the Red House Children's Book Award (older readers category), the Bolton Book Award and has been shortlisted for Richard and Judy's children's book club 2007.

Malcolm Rose’s Kiss of Death (Usborne) was shortlisted for the Bolton Children’s Book Award 2007 and for the Sheffield Children’s Book Award 2007. Double Check (the fourth Traces novel, pub. Kingfisher) was shortlisted for the Portsmouth Book Award 2007.
Nicki Cornwell's Christophe's Story (Frances Lincoln) was also shortlisted for the Portsmouth Book Award 2007.

Miriam Moss’ Bare Bear (Hodder) was shortlisted for the Portsmouth Book Award. She was also a 2007 Asham Award Winner for Looking In, published in Is This What You Want? (Short Story Anthology, Bloomsbury, Sept 2007)

James Carter's Time-Travelling Underpants (Macmillan) was in Junior Education Top Ten Books of the Year 2007

Rebecca Lisle’s Curse of the Toads (Hodder) was shortlisted for the Calderdale Book Award 2007

Steven Smallman's The Lamb Who Came for Dinner (Little Tiger Press) was shortlisted for The Red House Children's Book Award, the Stockport Schools' Book Award, the Sheffield Children's Book Award (Commended), all 2007; also the Norfolk Libraries Children's Book Award (Silver Star) and the Portsmouth Book Award, both 2008

Sue Purkiss's The Willow Man was shortlisted for the Solihull Book Prize.

Joan Lennon's Ely Plot (Book 1 of The Wickit Chronicles, pub. Andersen Press) was BRAW Book of the Month April 2007.

Diana Kimpton's The Lamb-a-roo (Gullane, illus Rosalind Beardshaw) is shortlisted for this year's Stockport Schools Book Award 

Eleanor Updale’s Montmorency and the Assassins (Scholastic) and Gillian Shields’ The Actual Real Reality of Jennifer James (HarperCollins USA) were both chosen by the New York Public Library as Books for the Teen Age 2007

Sherry Ashworth’s Close-up (Simon & Schuster) has been shortlisted for the Leicester Book of the Year Award 2007

Joe Friedman's Boobela and Worm (Orion) has been listed in the Best Books of the Year by Child Education and Junior Education

Griselda Gifford's House of Spies (Andersen Press) has been shortlisted for the Lancashire Libraries Award 2007

Pippa Goodhart’s Connor’s Eco Den (Barrington Stoke) has been shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2007

Tabitha Suzuma's A Note of Madness (Random House) was shortlisted for the Times Educational Supplement NASEN Book Award 2006 and also for the Branford Boase Award 2007.

Eleanor Updale’s Montmorency was selected for U.S.A. National Public Radio Summer Read 2006, also shortlisted for the Falkirk R.E.D. award; Indian Paintbrush Award 2006-7. Montmorency on the Rocks was selected for the American Library Association Best Book of the Year for Young Adults 2006 and shortlisted for the Southern Schools Book Award 2006-7. Both books published by Scholastic.

Katherine Langrish’s Troll Fell was shortlisted for the Sasquatch Reading Award 2007 (Washington State) and the West Virginia Children's Book Award 2006/7; and Troll Mill was selected for the New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age 2007. Both books published by HarperCollins.

Dianne Hofmeyr's The Waterbearer (Hodder) has won an IBBY* Honours Book Award

Linda Newbery's Set In Stone (David Fickling) won the Costa Children's Book of 2006 

Nicola Morgan’s Blame My Brain (Walker) was shortlisted for the Aventis Science prize 2006

Amanda Swift's Anna/Bella was one of RHCBA's picks of the year 2006

Ragnhild Scamell's picture book Ouch! was shortlisted for the Coventry Inspiration Book (What's the Story?) Award in 2006

Malcolm Rose’s Framed! (the first Traces novel, pub Kingfisher) was voted Outstanding International Book for 2006 by the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) and the Children’s Book Council.

John Dougherty's Jack Slater, Monster Investigator (Young Corgi) was shortlisted for the Ottakar's Children's Book Prize 2006 and his Niteracy Hour (Corgi Children's, illus Georgien Overwater) was shortlisted for the Nottingham Children's Book Award 2006

Sherry Ashworth’s Paralysed (Simon & Schuster) won the South Lanarkshire Book Award 2006, The Leicester Book of the Year 2006 and was shortlisted in 2006 for The Red House Book Award, The Redbridge Book Award and the East Renfrewshire Book Award

Karen Wallace’s The Unrivalled Spangles (Simon & Schuster) was shortlisted for the Book Trust Teen Fiction Award 2006

Adam Guillain’s Bella Balistica and the Indian Summer (Milet) was shortlisted for the 2006 IBBY Awards and received an Honorary Mention

Malachy Doyle's The Dancing Tiger (Simon and Schuster, illus. Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson) won the Nestle Children's Book Award (Silver) 2005; was shortlisted for the Irish Children's Book of the Year 2005 and for the Highland Book Award 2006 

Elizabeth Kay’s The Divide (Chicken House) was shortlisted for the Stockton Children's Book of the Year and the West Sussex Children's Book Award in 2005, and for the Colorado Children's Book Award in 2006. In 2007 it was shortlisted for the Key Stage 3 Imagines Book Award in Birmingham, UK. 


*International Board of Books for Young People