Michael Morpurgo's book Shadow is the overall winner of the Red House Children’s Book Award 2011
TimeRiders by Alex Scarrow won the Older Readers Category.
Yuck! That's Not a Monster! by Angela McAllister & Alison Edgson won the Younger Children's Category.
The Red House Children's Book Award is awarded annually in three categories, and judged entirely by children from shortlist to final overall Winner. Read more and see the top 50 titles each year published as the Pick of the Year list
The longlist for the Guardian children's fiction prize was recently announced. It is the only children's prize to be judged by writers. The eight titles, with the suggested ages, are:
My Name is Mina, by David Almond 9+
Small Change for Stuart, by Lissa Evans 8+
Twilight Robbery, by Frances Hardinge 11+
Momentum, by Sacci Lloyd 12+
Moon Pie, by Simon Mason 10+
Return to Ribblestrop, by Andy Mulligan 10+
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, by Annabel Pitcher 10+
Mr Gum and the Secret Hideout, by Andy Stanton, illustrated by David Tazzyman 7+
A shortlist is usually announced in September with the winner revealed in October.
The Orange Prize for Fiction has been won by Téa Obreht for her debut novel, The Tiger's Wife. The prize is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a woman. Obreht, aged 25, is the youngest-ever author to win the £30,000 prize.
