2019 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize Shortlists
Shortlisted titles for the 2019 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize have been announced in the Illustrated Books, Younger Fiction, and Older Fiction categories, including several of genre interest:
Older Fiction
- The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo (Egmont)
- Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Macmillan Children’s)
- A Winter’s Promise, Christelle Dabos (Europa Editions)
Younger Fiction
- The House with Chicken Legs, Sophie Anderson (Usborne)
- The Train to Impossible Places, P.G. Bell (Usborne)
- Brightstorm, Vashti Hardy (Scholastic)
- The Mystery of the Colour Thief, Ewa Jozefkowicz (Head of Zeus)
- The Boy Who Grew Dragons, Andy Shepherd (Templar)
Category winners each receive £2,000 and one overall winner will receive an additional £3,000. Winners will be announced at an award ceremony on March 21, 2019 at Waterstones Piccadilly in London, UK.
For more information, see the Waterstones website.
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