Books for Keeps is an online British magazine that reviews hundreds of children’s books a year and publishes articles about children’s writing. In this week’s issue, they announced the winner of the Guardian’s Children’s Fiction prize just awarded in November to David Almond.
They also shared the shortlist for this year’s Costa Book Award which is of the the UK’s most prestigious literary prizes. This year’s shortlist includes:
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge Sophie Someone, Hayley Long
Jessica’s Ghost, Andrew Norriss An Island of Our Own, Sally Nicholls