Talk:Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

Title
I think that this should be Guardian Children's Fiction prize moved to as per the Guardian ext link. Guardian Award is ambiguous. --JBellis 21:36, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree, except the lowercase 'p'. --P64 (talk) 13:37, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ thanks to administrator Malik Shabazz
 * I have requested the parallel move (plus capitalisation) for the winning authors category from  to . That process permits 48 hours for comment on the request.
 * Categories for discussion/Speedy (link that may not be useful after 48 hours) --P64 (talk) 18:22, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Winners of multiple awards
This new section of the article includes, short for "Repeat winners", which is a section heading in some articles on awards. The article says nothing about authors winning this award twice (contrast Carnegie Medal) and the Winners list is "impossible" to scan for author names. --anyway, I declined to say anything yet about who has won more than once (again, contrast Medal).

Six books have won both Guardian and Carnegie --I have dared to say, although the only source is my inspection of the two Winners lists. That is errorprone, so needs confirmation or correction by another editor or two. --P64 (talk) 15:34, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Compare with Carnegie Medal
(quote) "It may be compared with the American Newbery Medal."

Is this appropriate?

We should compare it first and foremost with the Carnegie Medal. See its Talk: Carnegie Medal in Literature. --P64 (talk) 21:00, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Importance rating
Report: Current ratings for WP:Children's literature. This is part of my longer posting to Talk: Carnegie Medal in Literature. I have posted this much also to the Smarties and Blue Peter talk pages. Those two do not have real articles, only stubs. --P64 (talk) 20:19, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Top - Carnegie Medal in Literature
 * High - Blue Peter Book Award (!?)
 * Mid - Kate Greenaway Medal, Tir na n-Og Award, Guardian Award, Smarties Prize

Coverage by theguardian
Eventually --after {construction}-- to be culled by reference to the "top pages" that are now references 3 to 10 --and similar top pages for other years if any.

2012 • longlist 8 June 2012
 * (longlist) "The judges this year are children's writers Tony Bradman, Cressida Cowell and Kevin Crossley-Holland."

— — 2001
 * chaired by JE, children's book editor -application form

2011 • longlist 3 June 2011 • shortlist 30 September 2011 • winner 10 November 2011
 * "It is the only children's prize to be judged by writers" -JE
 * JE, Michelle Paver, Julia Golding, Marcus Sedgwick

2010 — —

2010 • longlist 28 May 2010 • shortlist 17 September 2010 • winner 8 October 2010
 * longlist) "After years of domination by teen fiction, a resurgence in quality writing for younger children has packed the line-up for this year's Guardian children's fiction prize with stories for the under-10s, full of ogres, wolves and mysterious Green Men. ..." "... Eight-plus is really the place to get them hooked, and it's very exciting to find that publishers are publishing with great success into this area. The balance of our list is actually for primary school children, rather than for secondary school ..." "... last year to Mal Peet, and in 2008 to Patrick Ness – both of whom write for children over 12." -JE
 * winner) "Chair of judges, Julia Eccleshare, said: "It's relatively rare for a book late in a series to win a major prize, but the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness is such a towering achievement, as a whole as well as in terms of the individual books, that it was our unanimous choice."
 * [but Philip Reeve won for concluding a quartet in 2006]
 * "The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize was founded in 1967 and is unique in that it is judged by children's authors themselves, and no one can win it more than once." !
 * JE, Mal Peet, Linda Buckley-Archer, Jenny Downham

2009 — —

2009 • longlist 22 May 2009 • 23 May 2009 Alison Flood
 * "We haven't really got any fantasy," said Eccleshare. "There is still a lot of fantasy around, but exceptional fantasy has always been rather hard to find."
 * Celia Rees, Andy Stanton, Patrick Ness

— — 2008 • winner 8 October 2009
 * (winner) "Chair of judges and the Guardian's children's books editor Julia Eccleshare ...; 1,500

2008 • longlist 23 May 2008 • shortlist 5 September 2008 • winner 24 September 2008
 * (longlist) The winner, who will receive a cheque for £1,500, will be announced in the Guardian in late September.
 * The Guardian children's fiction prize is the only children's book award in which writers are judged by their peers.
 * "This weekend at the Hay festival, we launch a young critics' competition, to run in parallel with the fiction prize. All you have to do is write a review of not more than 200 words of one of the longlisted books and submit it, with an entry form, to the Guardian. Entries can be made as individuals aged 16 or below, or as part of a school group of four or more students. The 10 that most impress the judges will win sets of the longlisted books for their schools and themselves and a book voucher.
 * (JE), Jenny Valentine, Mary Hoffman, Mal Peet

2007 — (2009)
 * (winner) valuable source on Patrick Ness
 * Chair of judges and Guardian children's books editor Julia Eccleshare said the panel of judges, made up of children's authors Mary Hoffman, Mal Peet and last year's winner Jenny Valentine, were blown away by the "breathtaking quality" of Ness's writing

2007 • longlist 25 May 2007 • • winner 3 October 2007
 * (longlist) "While exploring the future is speculative, exploring the past offers authors some useful "props" as well as a safe place to play out the kind of adventures that are increasingly fraught with difficulty in a modern setting. As a result, historical fiction is booming and children's interest, fed by historical films, is expanding to catch up." -JE
 * (JE?), Philip Reeve, Linda Newbery, Eleanor Updale

2006 — —
 * young critics
 * 1500
 * (winner) Valentine's debut, also Rosoff 2004

2006 • longlist and winner 3 October 2006 • longlist 2 June 2006 • shortlist 8 September 2006 • winner 28 September 2006
 * (retrospective)
 * (JE?) Charlie Higson, Francesca Simon and Kate Thompson

— — 2005
 * clearly the one panel of judges selects the longlist, shortlist, and winner [also the children's review winner]
 * "crossover novels - those written to appeal to both children and adults - are in the ascendancy.
 * winner Reeve completes a quartet
 * (longlist) "the crossover novel edges children's books ever upwards in every respect
 * (winner) 1500

2005 • longlist 3 June 2005 • shortlist 16 September 2005 •
 * (longlist) "nearly a decade later, [after Philosopher's Stone] new trends are appearing. Historical fiction, once the bedrock of children's fiction, as in the work of Rosemary Sutcliff, Geoffrey Trease and Leon Garfield, is coming back into fashion. The past is a wonderful source of story as well as somewhere that children can behave freely without worries about what would be allowed nowadays."
 * (shortlist) "set up in 1967 as the only children's book award made to writers by their fellow authors
 * (JE) Jan Mark, Meg Rosoff and Chris Riddell

— 2004 —

2004 • longlist 16 July 2004 • • (directory includes longlist) • "The history, the prize, the judges" The Guardian, Friday 16 July 2004 "All have been selected by panels of their peers, and many of them have won the prize early on in their careers."
 * JE, Mark Haddon, Adèle Geras, Marcus Sedgwick

2003 — —
 * (longlist) "2004 has been the year of the "crossover" novel. Or has it? Distinctions between children's and adult books are determinedly being blurred as a way of "growing" the number of books sold. But it would be dangerous.... ... realigned at the expense of their true readers."

2003 • 4 July 2003 - two longlist-related articles without the list
 * JE, Michael Morpurgo, Philip Ardagh, Malorie Blackman

— — — • • (directory includes longlist] • winner 2 October 2003
 * (winner) "Published on both an adult and a children's list, it is one of the few titles for which the ubiquitous claim of "crossover" is not a gimmick. It genuinely has equal, though different, appeal to all readers - 15-year-old Christopher Boone's narrative voice is at once childlike in its observations, and adult in its profundity.
 * "Christopher is autistic ...

2002 • • [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/sep/14/featuresreviews.guardianreview16 shortlist 13 September 2002]
 * (JE) Kevin Crossley-Holland, Beverley Naidoo, Bali Rai

• longlist + shortlist with discussion 23 September 2002
 * "Wealth of criticism: The Guardian's first competition for young critics provoked some strong views about our Children's Fiction Prize 2002 longlist. ...
 * "As part of the announcement of the longlist, we asked children aged 16 or under to submit their own 200-word reviews of any of the nine longlisted novels - with the opportunity to win a day editing and printing up their reviews at the Guardian's new archive centre, the Newsroom.
 * "One of the books, Exodus, by Julie Bertaga, was published only at the end of the summer and was not, therefore, available for review. The other eight ...
 * Claire Armitstead is Literary Editor of the Guardian.

• (directory incl shortlist only) • winner 10 October 2002
 * Claire Armitstead quoted
 * 1500, founded 1965
 * Kevin Crossley-Holland, Bali Rai, Beverley Naidoo

2001 — —

2001 • longlist 9 July 2001 Prize fiction: Claire Phipps talks to last year's winner about judging the 2001 Guardian children's book award, and Julia Eccleshare shares the panel's views on the longlist
 * Jacqueline Wilson, Anne Fine, Philip Pullman

2000 1990 1996
 * "[Wilson] Now invited onto the judging panel for this year's awards (no author can win twice), she has been thrilled by the experience of delving into the pile of books submitted. ...
 * "In the post-Potter era, people are no longer afraid to take children's literature seriously.
 * "For details of the Guardian children's fiction prize and how to build a classic library of children's books, see www.guardian.co.uk/books or vote for your favourite longlisted books and see the judges' recommendations for a summer of great reading on www.learn.co.uk/
 * Julia Eccleshare chaired the judging panel.

• • winner 28 September 2001
 * "[Crossley-Holland] His books for children have mostly been retellings and anthologies of classical myth and Anglo-Saxon poems and stories, notably his acclaimed 1999 version of Beowulf. His first novel for children, Storm, won the Carnegie Medal in 1985.

• account by one panelist Anne Fine, Children's Laureate, identifying the shortlist, 9 October 2001
 * runner up Eva Ibbotson "we all fell on Eva Ibbotson's perfectly judged, brilliantly light to read, civilised Journey To The River Sea, in which we are shown how, as one of the characters reminds us, "Children must lead big lives... if it is in them to do so." Oh, please let her write another book as fine as this, because, in any other year, we would have handed her the prize without a thought."
 * Children's Laureate Anne Fine "She is twice winner of the Carnegie medal, the GUardian's Children's Literature Award, the Whitbread Children's Novel and the Smarties prize. She has also been awarded the Publishing News Children's Author of the Year Award in 1990 and 1993"

• "Guardian children's fiction prize relaunched" guardian.co.uk, Monday 12 March 2001 "The long-established Guardian children's fiction prize is being relaunched this autumn to coincide with Children's Book Week.

"In a departure for the award, which was founded in 1965, it will be run in conjunction with the education resources website from the Guardian, Learn.co.uk, which will host online discussions on the long-listed books over the summer holidays.

"The award is open to fiction for children aged seven and above, published in the UK between January 2000 and September 2001. There is a limit of 10 entries per publisher and previous winners are not eligible.

"Submissions should be made by April 31"

2000 • winner + shortlist 28 March 2000 - by evidently prior to a move from spring to fall • review of winner by JE
 * "Outsiders are a recurrent theme in this year's shortlist for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. That does not mean the books are gloomy, but that they all reflect an understanding that conventional family relationships have been replaced in children's lives by broader and more complex structures.
 * "She has been writing in this vein for the last decade and, along with Anne Fine, Robert Swindells and Melvin Burgess, has led the current fashion for social realism in children's books.


 * "[Wilson] will receive £1,500 for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize."
 * Julia Eccleshare (chair), Keith Gray, Elizabeth Laird, Susan Price

— — 1999

1999 • Guardian children's fiction prize 1999 (2) - false positive, concerns other awards

--P64 (talk) 23:17, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

British Council Literature database
About the Directory that covers about 700 "authors we work with and major prizewinners from the UK, Republic of Ireland and the Commonwealth."

google: Guardian Children's Book Prize shortlist yyyy hits the Awards sections of some Writers pages here ... this is a source for most pre-2000 shortlistings now in the article. --P64 (talk) 20:26, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

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