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Showing posts with label award nominations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label award nominations. Show all posts

Thursday, 12 June 2025

The Week Junior Book Awards

A few weeks ago I learned that Watts and Whiskerton: Buried Bones and Troublesome Treasure has been shortlisted for a Week Junior Award in the Fiction Younger category, which is lovely news.


You can find the other fantastic shortlistees here, as well as the nominees in all the other categories. It's a great place to discover new books.


The winners are announced in September.



Wednesday, 22 January 2025

Nice things

I hope 2025 is treating you well so far. I've had some nice news: Watts and Whiskerton: Buried Bones and Troublesome Treasure has been long-listed for the Children's Literature Festivals Book Awards 2025. It nice to be in the company of so many other lovely books.


In other news I'm cracking on with a new picture book and Watts and Whiskerton book three.

Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017

I'm really excited to announce that Life Is Magic has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 in the Best Illustrated category alongside five other brilliant books.  Huge congratulations all,  especially fellow MA Children's Book Illustration graduates Fabi Santiago and Matt Robertson.

Published by those lovely people at Andersen Press now is a good time to thank my editor and art director, Libby and Beccy, who are both fantastic at what they do and brilliant people to work with.  They really helped make this book into the best version of itself.  My lovely agent Helen also deserves a big thank you for helping shape the very first draft into something that was worth putting on a publisher's desk.   This book wouldn't exist without them.

To celebrate there's a jaunty red-lettered cover.




You can read all about the prize and see the full shortlists for every category here.
Congratulations everyone!

Saturday, 22 October 2016

The Kate Greenaway Medal Nominations 2017

Yesterday the nominations for the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals were announced, and I'm thrilled that Life Is Magic was included in the latter.


Whoop!


It's very exciting, and a little strange, to be listed alongside so many of my illustration heroes.

You can read all about the medals and see the full lists of nominees here