RED HOUSE BOOK AWARD 2012
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (based on an idea by Siobhan Dowd) has won the Red House book award for Older Readers book and best overall book of 2012. The Award is run by the Federation of Childrens’ Book Groups and is selected by the votes of 83,000 young readers. He said: “Winning the Red House is terrific, especially because it’s chosen by young readers themselves. Trust me, as a writer for young people, I know how bracingly honest they can be about their opinions, so to have been selected from a really strong shortlist is a splendid feeling. Properly chuffed.“ Both Patrick...
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After the success of the Red House book award win for A Monster Calls, there is news from the USA, where the book has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award, and also for the extremely cool Bram Stoker Awards, which are run by the Horror Writers Assocation. And it’s currently longlisted for both the Carnegie Medal (both Siobhan and Patrick are Carnegie winners in previous years) and Kate Greenaway Award… congratulations to Patrick Ness and the illustrator of the beautiful but rather creepy pictures, Jim Kay. The shortlists will be announced in late march, so watch this...
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