UKLA BOOK AWARDS 2012: ANOTHER WIN FOR A MONSTER CALLS
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A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and Jim Kay continues its sweep of the UK’s book awards, this week winning the 12 – 16 category in the 2012 UKLA Book Awards. A Monster Calls has already won the Red House Children’s Book Award and the Galaxy Book of the Year, as well as both the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals.
The UKLA teacher judges awarded theprize in the 7 – 11 category to Sky Hawk by debut author Gill Lewis, and the award in the 3 -6 category to former Kate Greenaway medal winner Catherine Rayner for Iris and Isaac.
The awards were announced at the UKLA International Conference at the University of Leicester on 6th July.
The UKLA Book Awards are the only awards judged entirely by teachers. The judges look for book which express ideas and offer layered meanings through the use of language, imaginative expression and rich illustration. Alayne Ozturk, President of UKLA commented on the exceptional quality of the shortlists this year which featured books by both established and new authors.
There were six books on each shortlist.
Shortlist 12-16
Lindsey Barraclough: Long Lankin (Bodley Head)
Kevin Brooks: iBoy (Puffin Books)
Phil Earle: Being Billy (Puffin Books)
Andy Mulligan: Trash (David Fickling Books)
Patrick Ness: A Monster Calls. Illus. Jim Kay (Walker Books)
Kenneth Oppel: Half Brother (David Fickling Books)
Shortlist 7-11
Nicola Davies: A Girl Called Dog. Illus. James de la Rue (Random House Children’s Books)
Ruth Eastham: The Memory Cage (Scholastic Children's Books)
Lissa Evans: Small Change for Stuart (Doubleday)
Gill Lewis: Sky Hawk (Oxford University Press)
Simon Mason: Moon Pie (David Fickling Books
Katherine Rundell:The Girl Savage (Faber and Faber)
Shortlist 3-6
Suzanne Bloom: A Splendid Friend, Indeed (Alanna Books)
Alexis Deacon: A Place to Call Home. ;Illus.VivianeSchwarz (Walker Books)
Marjolaine Leray: Little Red Hood Trans Sarah Ardizzone (Phoenix Yard Books)
Catherine Rayner: Iris and Isaac (Little Tiger Press)
Jeanne Willis: Mole's Sunrise Illus. Sarah Fox-Davies (Walker Books)
Chris Wormell: Scruffy Bear and the Six White Mice (Jonathan Cape)
