Costa Book Award - Children's

Awards List

2015

The Lie Tree
(Winner)
Frances Hardinge

The Lie Tree
(Nominee)
Frances Hardinge

2014

Ghosts of Heaven
(Nominee)
Marcus Sedgwick

2013

Rose Under Fire
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Wein

2012

Maggot Moon
(Winner)
Sally Gardner

2011

Blood Red Road
(Winner)
Moira Young

Flip
(Nominee)
Martyn Bedford

The Unforgotten Coat
(Nominee)
Frank Cottrell Boyce

2010

Out of Shadows
(Winner)
Jason Wallace

Annexed
(Nominee)
Sharon Dogar

Flyaway
(Nominee)
Lucy Christopher

2009

The Ask and the Answer
(Winner)
Patrick Ness

2008

Just Henry
(Winner)
Michelle Magorian

The Carbon Diaries: 2015
(Nominee)
Saci Lloyd

Broken Soup
(Nominee)
Jenny Valentine

2007

What I Was
(Nominee)
Meg Rosoff

Blood Red, Snow White
(Nominee)
Marcus Sedgwick

Crusade
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Laird

2006

Set in Stone
(Winner)
Linda Newbery

Clay
(Nominee)
David Almond

Just in Case
(Nominee)
Meg Rosoff

2005

The New Policeman
(Winner)
Kate Thompson

2003

Private Peaceful
(Nominee)
Michael Morpurgo
  • / General Fiction
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The Oracle Betrayed
(Nominee)
Catherine Fisher

Naked Without a Hat
(Nominee)
Jeanne Willis

2002

Saffy's Angel
(Winner)
Hilary McKay
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy

Sorceress
(Nominee)
Celia Rees

Mortal Engines
(Nominee)
Philip Reeve

2001

The Amber Spyglass
(Winner)
Philip Pullman

The Lady and the Squire
(Nominee)
Terry Jones

Artemis Fowl
(Nominee)
Eoin Colfer

1999

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
(Winner)
J.K. Rowling

1998

Skellig
(Winner)
David Almond
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy

1996

The Tulip Touch
(Winner)
Anne Fine
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy

Award Categories

Book of the Year

Children's

First Novel

Novel

Award Years

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

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