November 2006

The Guardian Children’s Fiction Award was founded in 1937 by the Guardian newspaper and is judged by a panel of authors.  It is awarded to an author from Britain or the Commonwealth.  This is a list of the books which have won the Guardian Award and are currently in print.  When no books are mentioned for a particular year, then the winning books are no longer available.  

Kate Shepherd

1968            The Owl Service  by Alan Garner  $17.95
1969            The Whispering Mountain by Joan Aiken pb $12.95 
1973            Watership Down by Richard Adams  pb $14.95
1978            Charmed Life  by Diana Wynn Jones  pb $14.95
1982            Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian  pb $14.95
1983            The Village by the Sea by Anita Desai  pb $18.95
1985            What is the Truth - Collected Animal Poems by Ted Hughes  pb $15.95
1988            The Runaways by Ruth Thomas   pb $16.95
1989            A Pack of Lies by Geraldine McCaughrean  pb $13.95
1990            Goggle-Eyes by Anne Fine  pb $16.95
1991            The Kingdom by the Sea  by Robert Westall  pb $14.95
1992            The Exiles by Hilary McKay  pb $14.95
1994            The Mennyms by Sylvia Waugh  pb $16.95
1996            Maphead by Lesley Howarth  pb $19.95
1997            Junk by Melvin Burgess pb $14.95
1998            Fire, Bed and Bone by Henrietta Branford  pb $14.95
1999            Sterkarm Handshake by Susan Price  pb $20.00
2000            The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson  pb $17.95
2001            Arthur: The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland  pb $15.95
2002            Thursday’s Child  by Sonya Hartnett   pb $19.95
2003            Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon  pb $22.95
2004            How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff  pb $16.95
2005            The New Policeman by Kate Thompson   hardback $32.95  pb $17.95
2006            A Darkling Plain  by Philip Reeve  hardback $26.00

If you would like to order any of the books listed above, send orders to Austral Ed by fax, post or email. All prices are in Australian dollars.

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© Kate Shepherd 2008.