The Book Awards category on Lovereading4kids will help you and your child discover authors currently in contention for and/or winners of the most prestigious awards. By their very presence on this page, you can be sure that each of the books featured here is the 'crème-de-la-crème' of today's children's literature. 

STOP PRESS... CALLING ALL WICKED YOUNG WRITERS

Bestselling author Michael Morpurgo is sponsoring the exciting new Wicked Young Writers' Award, in association with Wicked, the musical that turns the story of The Wizard of Oz on its head. It's a great way to encourage your children and young adults to get creative – entrants aged from 5 to 25 can write about whatever they like, in prose or poetry. Michael Morpurgo comments, ‘All children are born with a sort of spark of genius. Growing up should fan it’. There are four five different age categories and the deadline for this year's award is July 23 2010. Enjoy! For more details go to the award website – wickedyoungwriters.com

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For each award, Lovereading4kids will feature the shortlist of books and authors before the individual winner is announced. As with all our Featured Books, you and your child will be able to download and print off free Opening Extracts of each book. In this way, you can choose your own winner and see if the judges agree with you!

And remember, even if the judges don't pick your favourite, all our Children's Book Award books are available to order online at 25% off the RRP. 

As Lovereading4kids grows we'll be featuring as many awards as we can manage, including:

Kate Greenaway Medal

Carnegie Medal

Costa Children's Award

Branford Boase Award

Marsh Award in Translation

Blue Peter Book Award

The Guardian Children's Fiction Award

Early Years Book Award

The Red House Children's Book Award 

The Booktrust Teenage Prize