Guardian Award
The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize is a literary prize that has been given to British authors of children's books by The Guardian newspaper since 1967 . The price is comparable to the US Newbery Medal .
Award winners
- 1967 Leon Garfield , Devil-in-a-Fog (German: The Stranger in the Fog )
- 1968 Alan Garner , The Owl Service (German Owl Magic , 1982)
- 1969 Joan Aiken , The Whispering Mountain (dt. The whispering mountain )
- 1970 KM Peyton , pseud., For Flambard's trilogy (1967–1969) (German: Christina's horse summer , 1972; Christina makes her luck , 1973; Christina and the break pilot , 1974)
- 1971 John Christopher , The Guardians (dt. The Guardian , 1975)
- 1972 Gillian Avery , A Likely Lad
- 1973 Richard Adams , Watership Down (Eng. Down by the River , 1975)
- 1974 Barbara Willard , The Iron Lily
- 1975 Winifred Cawley , Gran at Coalgate
- Shortlist: The Summer House Loon by Anne Fine
- 1976 Nina Bawden , The Peppermint Pig (dt. The Peppermint Pig )
- 1977 Peter Dickinson , The Blue Hawk (Eng. The Blue Hawk )
- 1978 Diana Wynne Jones , Charmed Life (Eng. We're crazy about witches , 1981; Nine Lives for the Wizard , 2001)
- 1979 Andrew Davies , Conrad's War (German Conrad's War )
- 1980 Ann Schlee , The Vandal (Eng. Remembering prohibited: e. Science fiction novel )
- 1981 Peter Carter , The Sentinels (Eng. The Sentinel hunts slave smugglers ; The Sentinel )
- 1982 Michelle Magorian , Goodnight Mr Tom ( Eng . The Boy from London )
- 1983 Anita Desai , Village by the Sea (Eng. The village by the sea: A family story from India , 1987)
- 1984 Dick King-Smith , The Sheep-Pig (Eng. Pig, Knirps ! , 1986; book based on a book by A pig called Babe )
- 1985 Ted Hughes , What is the Truth
- 1986 Ann Pilling , Henry's Leg
- 1987 James Aldridge , The True Story of Spit MacPhee (Eng. The true story of Spit MacPhee )
- 1988 Ruth Thomas , The Runaways (German up and away )
- 1989 Geraldine McCaughrean , A Pack of Lies (dt. Lauter lies , 1991)
- 1990 Anne Fine , Goggle-Eyes (Eng. The New , 1992)
- 1991 Robert Westall , The Kingdom by the Sea (Eng. The hiding place under the cliffs )
- 1992 Rachel Anderson , Paper Faces
- 1992 Hilary McKay , The Exiles (German Four Crazy Sisters )
- 1993 William Mayne , Low Tide (Eng. The Power of the Tides )
- 1994 Sylvia Waugh , The Mennyms ( Eng . The Mennyms )
- Shortlist: The Eye of the Horse by Jamila Gavin
- 1995 Lesley Howarth , MapHead (German Maphead: a fantastic novel )
- 1996 Philip Pullman , Northern Lights (first part of His Dark Materials ; German The Golden Compass , 1996)
- 1996 Alison Prince , The Sherwood Hero
- Shortlist: No Turning Back by Beverley Naidoo
- 1997 Melvin Burgess , Junk (Ger.Junk, 1999)
- 1998 Henrietta Branford , Fire, Bed and Bone
- Shortlist: The track of the Wind by Jamila Gavin ; Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by Joanne K. Rowling ; Secret Songs by Jane Stemp
- 1999 Susan Price , The Sterkarm Handshake (German Starckarm saga: novel ; Der Zeittunnel: novel )
- Shortlist: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by Joanne K. Rowling
- 2000 Jacqueline Wilson , The Illustrated Mum (German Tattoo Mum )
- Shortlist: Kit's Wilderness (German: Between yesterday and tomorrow ) by David Almond ; Little soldier by Bernard Ashley ; King of shadows (Eng. Puck's dream ) by Susan Cooper ; The eclipse of the century by Jan Mark ; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by Joanne K. Rowling
- 2001 Kevin Crossley-Holland , The Seeing Stone (first part of The Artus Saga ; German Artus - The Magic Mirror )
- Shortlist: My brother's ghost by Allan Ahlberg ; Witch Child (dt. Hexenkind ) of Celia Rees ; Raspberries on the Yangtze by Karen Wallace
- 2002 Sonya Hartnett , Thursday's Child (dt. Thursday Child )
- Shortlist: Warehouse by Keith Gray ; Jake's Tower by Elizabeth Laird ; The shell house by Linda Newbery ; The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents (dt. Maurice, der Kater ) by Terry Pratchett ; The dark horse (Eng. The storm of the black horses ) by Marcus Sedgwick
- 2003 Mark Haddon , The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (dt. Supergute Tage or Die Sonderguten Welt des Christopher Boone )
- Shortlist: Lucas (Eng. Lucas ) by Kevin Brooks ; The Speed of the Dark by Alex Shearer ; The Fire Eaters (Eng. Fire eater ) by David Almond
- 2004 Meg Rosoff , How I Live Now (dt. So I live now )
- Shortlist: Millions (dt. Millions , 2004) by Frank Cottrell Boyce ; No Shame, No Fear by Ann Turnbull ; Last Train from Kummersdorf by Leslie Wilson
- 2005 Kate Thompson , The New Policeman (Eng. Between the Times )
- Shortlist: The Merrybegot by Julie Hearn ; The Hunted by Alex Shearer ; The Boy in the burning house (dt. Scorch marks ) by Tim Wynne-Jones
- 2006 Philip Reeve , A Darkling Plain
- Shortlist: Framed (German masterpiece , 2006) by Frank Cottrell Boyce ; Blown Away by Patrick Cave ; Fly By Night (Eng. The Lady of Words ) by Frances Hardinge
- Longlist: Clay (Eng. Lehmann or Die Temptation ) by David Almond ; A Swift Pure Cry (Eng. Ein pure Schrei ) by Siobhan Dowd ; The Worst Witch Saves the Day (Eng. A lousy witch breaks the spell ) by Jill Murphy ; The Survival Game by Tim Wynne-Jones
- 2007 Jenny Valentine , Finding Violet Park (Eng. Who is Violet Park? )
- Shortlist: The Falconer's Knot by Mary Hoffman ; The Truth Sayer by Sally Prue ; Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire ( Eng . Mr Gum and the shortbread billionaire ) by Andy Stanton
- 2008 Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (first part of Chaos Walking ; Eng. New World / Vol. 1. Die Flucht , 2009)
- Shortlist: Cosmic (German: cosmic , 2009) by Frank Cottrell Boyce ; Before I Die (dt. Before I die ) by Jenny Downham ; Bog Child (Eng. The beginning and end of all sorrow is this place ) by Siobhan Dowd
- 2009 times Peet , Exposure
- Longlist: Genesis (Eng. The new book Genesis ) by Bernard Beckett ; Solace of the Road (Eng. On the other side of the sea ) by Siobhan Dowd ; The Silver Blade by Sally Gardner ; Then (dt. Then, ) of Morris Gleitzman ; Rowan the Strange by Julie Hearn ; Nation (Eng. An island ) by Terry Pratchett ; Revolver (Eng. Revolver ) by Marcus Sedgwick
- 2010 Michelle Paver , Ghost Hunter (last part of Chronicle of the Dark Forests )
- Shortlist: Now (dt. Now ) by Morris Gleitzman ; Unhooking the Moon by Gregory Hughes ; The Ogre of Oglefort (Eng. The secret of speaking animals ) by Eva Ibbotson
- 2011 Andy Mulligan , Return to Ribblestrop
- Shortlist: My Name Is Mina (Eng. Mina ) by David Almond ; Moon Pie by Simon Mason ; Twilight Robbery by Frances Hardinge
- 2012 Frank Cottrell Boyce , The Unforgotten Coat (Eng. The unforgotten coat , 2012)
- Longlist: The Abominables (Eng. Five Yetis are looking for a home ) by Eva Ibbotson ; Soonchild by Russell Hoban ; Dying to Know You (dt. Words are not my language ) by Aidan Chambers ; Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos ; Bullet Boys by Ally Kennen ; A Greyhound of a Girl (Eng. Mary, Tansey and the journey into the night ) by Roddy Doyle ; A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton
- 2013 Rebecca Stead , Liar & Spy
- Shortlist: The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas (Eng. The boy who swam with the piranhas , 2014) by David Almond ; The Fault in Our Stars (Eng. Fate is a lousy traitor ) by John Green ; Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
- 2014 Piers Torday , The Dark Wild
- Shortlist: Flora & Ulysses (German Flora and Ulysses: the fabulous adventures , 2014) by Kate DiCamillo ; We Were Liars by E Lockhart ; Phoenix by SF Said