2008 Costa Children’s Book Award shortlist
Keith Gray for Ostrich Boys
Saci Lloyd for The Carbon Diaries 2015
Michelle Magorian for Just Henry
Jenny Valentine for Broken Soup
The shortlists for the other categories of the award are below.
Costa First Novel Award:
The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Inside the Whale by Jennie Rooney
Costa Biography Award:
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
Bloomsbury Ballerina by Judith Mackrell
If You Don't Know Me By Now: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton by Sathnam Sanghera
Chagall by Jackie Wullschlager
Costa Novel Award:
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres
Trauma by Patrick McGrath
Costa Poetry Award:
For All We Know by Ciaran Carson
The Broken Word by Adam Foulds)
Sunday at the Skin Launderette by Kathryn Simmonds
Salvation Jane by Greta Stoddart
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