The Waterstones Children’s Book Prize of 2017 goes to Kiran Millwood Hargrave, for The Girl of Ink & Stars.
The Illustrated Fiction award went to Lizzy Stewart’s There’s a Tiger in the Garden, whilst Orangeboy by Patrice Lawrence, won the prize for older fiction.
Debut author Kiran Millwood Hargrave receives a prize of £5,000 from the unique award that’s voted for entirely by booksellers.
Read the full shortlist here.
Emma Perry is a children’s book author, a teacher, the founder of MyBookCorner and organiser of International Book Giving Day. She loves books so much her first two books were about… books! After the publication of I Don’t Like Books and This Book Has Alpacas and Bears, she ventured outdoors with two books celebrating being outside – Puddling! illustrated by Claire Alexander, plus Know It Owl illustrated by Andrea Stegmaier.
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