Whitbread Children's Book Award: 1971-2005

Initially named the Whitbread Literary Awards, in 1995 it became known as the Whitbread Awards. This collection brings together the winners from 1971-2005, and the nominees from 1995-2005. In 2006 this award was taken over by Costa and renamed the Costa Award; to see this collection click here. 

The diddakoi

Rumer Godden's The Diddakoi won the 1972 Whitbread Children's Book Award. E...More
The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

Previous winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award, this latest edition...More
The Emperor's Winding Sheet

"Walsh brings a meticulous eye for detail and storyteller's skill to this t...More
How Tom beat Captain Najork and his hired sportsmen

A classic tale of the triumph of fooling-around fun over humourless no-nons...More
A stitch in time

Maria is always getting lost in the secret world of her imagination... ...More
No End to Yesterday

No End to Yesterday won the Whitbread Prize in 1977 as a children's book, b...More
The battle of Bubble and Squeak

Sid, Peggy and Amy adore the two gerbils, Bubble and Squeak, but their moth...More
Tulku

When Theodore's safe, predictable world is destroyed, his life-and his fait...More
John Diamond

'My father, that stern and upright man, was nothing but a swindler and a th...More
The Hollow Land

The barren, beautiful Cumbrian fells provide the bewitching setting for the...More
The song of Pentecost.

The Song Of Pentecost is an amazing story of the journey of small animals f...More
The witches

THE WITCHES, Roald Dahl's most scary story for children, in a large format,...More
The queen of the Pharisees' children

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The nature of the beast

A powerful novel about a community devastated by unemployment and shaken by...More
The Coal House

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A Little Lower Than Angels

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Awaiting Developments

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Why weeps the Brogan?

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AK

A former child soldier tries to learn the ways of peace in an African natio...More
Harvey Angell

There's a mysterious, magical new lodger at gloomy 131 Ballantyre Road: Har...More
The Great Elephant Chase

A giant Indian elephant. A wild journey across America. An enemy who will...More
Flour babies

Flour Babies by Anne Fine, won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Childre...More
Gold dust

Inez and her brother are amazed to find a huge hole being dug right outside...More
The wreck of the Zanzibar

A gripping children's story from War Horse author and former Children's Lau...More
Kasper in the Glitter

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The Parsley Parcel

The first book in the Gypsy Trilogy....More
The Tulip touch

Reissued for the Originals series of powerful teen fiction. Nobody wants Tu...More
Clockwork

Tick, tock, tick, tock! Some stories are like that. Once you've wend them u...More
Plundering paradise

Nathan loves pirates - his days are spent dreaming about them and wondering...More
The Trokeville Way

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Junk

Winner of both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction prize...More
Aquila

It's a spaceship from the past - can it change the future? Aquila has be...More
Chasing Redbird

To Zinny Taylor, life is like trying to untangle spaghetti - she needs to e...More
Harry and the wrinklies

When the orphaned Harry is sent to live with his elderly aunts, he gets the...More
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings ...More
Skellig

To celebrate 15 year of this internationally successful, multi-award-winnin...More
Sweet clarinet

It's the second World War and Billy's life will never be the same again. A...More
Abomination

Martha is twelve - and very different from other kids, because of her paren...More
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in...More
Kensuke's kingdom

I disappeared on the night before my twelfth birthday. Washed up on an...More
Meeting midnight

Meeting Midnight is a collection for young readers by one of the most excit...More
The illustrated mum

`"It's like you're the mum" Marigold wept. It was another game she some...More
Troy

The siege of Troy has lasted almost ten years. Inside the walled city, food...More
Coram boy

A tale of tradition, corruption, strife and growing-up from award-winning a...More
Heaven Eyes

Erin, January and Mouse live in a children's home, Whitegates. They often d...More
The Seeing Stone

Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries o...More
The amber spyglass

The third volume in Philip Pullman's incredible HIS DARK MATERIALS t...More
Artemis Fowl

Join the world of Artemis Fowl, the number one bestseller by Eoin Colfer.Ru...More
The lady and the squire

'In some ways.' Tom thought to himself as he lay bound and gagged in the ba...More
Journey to the river sea

An Amazon adventure set in the wilderness of Brazil, Journey to the River S...More
Sorceress

Celia Rees's Sorceress is the bewitching sequel to Witch Child, which was s...More
Saffy's Angel

From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2018. Meet Saffy, Indigo...More
Exodus

The fifteenth anniversary edition of Exodus, a startling, thrilling novel s...More
Mortal engines

MORTAL ENGINES launched Philip Reeve's brilliantly-imagined creation, ...More
Naked Without a Hat

Life isnt going so well for 19-year-old Will. His mother is always nagging ...More
Private Peaceful

A stunning new edition of this modern classic of World War One, featuring a...More
The oracle

In the distant land of deserts and islands, the servants of the god rule th...More
The fire-eaters

There he was, below the bridge, half-naked, eyes blazing. He had a pair of ...More
Looking for JJ

A gripping and emotionally searing novel from a talented author, Looking fo...More
How I live now

How I Live Now is an original and poignant book by Meg Rosoff, now a film t...More
No shame, no fear

A story of love against the odds. 1662 - England is reeling from the aft...More
Not the end of the world

Everyone knows the story of the Flood, the men God chose to survive, the an...More
Framed

The perfect crime - it's a work of art, in Frank Cottrell Boyce's ingenious...More
The white darkness

Captain Titus Oates, hero of the Antarctic, has been dead for nearly a cent...More
Permanent Rose

From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2018. Meet Saffy, Indigo...More
The new policeman

Everyone in Kinvara is conscious that time is flying past, faster and faste...More

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