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Red House children's book award

February 2015

  • The Day the Crayons Quit by Oliver Jeffers

    Children's books
    Red House children's book award 2015 winner announced

    The children’s votes are in and the Red House children’s book award 2015 winners have been decided! Step up and take a bow David Walliams, Sophie McKenzie and overall winners Oliver Jeffers and Drew Daywalt

August 2014

  • Malorie Blackman

    Malorie Blackman faces racist abuse after call to diversify children's books

    News: Children's laureate vows she will not be silenced by 'hatred, threats and vitriol' after appealing for more representative range of fictional characters

February 2014

  • RIck Yancey

    Children's books
    The 5th Wave wins Red House children's book award

    Rick Yancey voted the children's choice in the Red House children's book award 2014, for the first in his trilogy about alien-occupied Earth – Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler and Jennifer Gray also winners

June 2007

  • Bad Man wins children's award

    You're a Bad Man Mr Gum! has won the Red House children's award. Author Andy Stanton tells Michelle Pauli of influences Roald Dahl, the Young Ones and The Simpsons.

February 2003

  • Britain's children elect their book of the year

    Lemony Snicket and Eoin Colfer are two of the authors shortlisted for the 2003 Red House Children's Book Award announced today, among a selection embracing orphans, elves and pants

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