Branford Boase Award
The Branford Boase Award is a British literary award presented annually to an outstanding novel for young people by a first-time writer.
Wendy Boase, Editorial Director of Walker Books and Henrietta Branford worked together previously to produce a great number of books. Both Wendy Boase and Henrietta Branford died in 1999 of cancer. The Branford Boase award was created to celebrate and commemorate their names and memories and to encourage new talent in writing which they worked for during their lives. The awards were a joint idea by Julia Eccleshare and Anne Marley who both had jobs do with books.
The Branford Boase Award runs alongside the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition for under 19s.
Winners
Winners receive a hand-crafted box with the Branford Boase Award logo on and a cheque for £1,000.
- 2000 - Katherine Roberts - Song Quest - Chicken House
- 2001 - Marcus Sedgwick - Floodland - Orion
- 2002 - Sally Prue - Cold Tom - OUP
- 2003 - Kevin Brooks - Martyn Pig - Chicken House
- 2004 - Mal Peet - Keeper - Walker
- 2005 - Meg Rosoff - How I Live Now - Puffin
- 2006 - Frances Hardinge - Fly By Night - Macmillan Children’s Books
- 2007 - Siobhan Dowd - A Swift Pure Cry - David Fickling Books
- 2008 - Jenny Downham - Before I Die - David Fickling Books
- 2009 - B. R. Collins - The Traitor Game - Bloomsbury Publishing
- 2010 - Lucy Christopher - Stolen - Chicken House
- 2011 - Jason Wallace - Out of Shadows - edited by Charlie Sheppard, Andersen Press
Shortlists
- 2000
- Dominic Barker - Sharp Stuff - Transworld
- Gus Clarke - Can We Keep It, Dad? - Andersen Press
- Richard Kidd - The Giant Goldfish Robbery - Transworld
- Paul May - Troublemakers - Transworld
- Stephen Pots - Hunting Gumnor - Egmont
- Louise Rennison - Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging - Piccadilly
- Katherine Roberts - Song Quest - Chicken House
- 2001
- Nick Manns - Control Shift - Hodder
- William Nicholson - The Wind Singer - Egmont
- Hazel Riley - Thanis - OUP
- Marcus Sedgwick - Floodland - Orion
- 2002
- Emma Barnes - Jessica Haggerthwaite: Witch Dispatcher - Bloomsbury
- Adele Minchin - The Beat Goes On - Women’s Press
- Sally Prue - Cold Tom - OUP
- Bali Rai - (Un)arranged Marriage - Corgi
- Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines - Scholastic
- 2003
- Julia Bell, Massive, Pan Macmillan
- Kevin Brooks - Martyn Pig - Chicken House
- Patricia Elliott - Ice Boy - Hodder
- Richard MacSween - The Firing - Andersen
- Livi Michael - Frank and the Black Hamster of Narkiz - Puffin
- Simon Mason - The Quigleys - David Fickling Books
- Nicky Singer - Feather Boy - HarperCollins
- 2004
- Steve Augarde - The Various - David Fickling Books
- Graham Gardner - Inventing Elliott - Dolphin
- Julie Hearn - Follow Me Down - OUP
- L. S. Matthews - Fish - Hodder
- Mal Peet - Keeper - Walker
- Eleanor Updale - Montmorency - Scholastic
- 2005
- Alison Allen-Gray - Unique - OUP
- Frank Cottrell Boyce - Millions - Macmillan
- Cathy Cassidy - Dizzy - Puffin Books
- John Dougherty - Zeus on the Loose - Random House
- Michelle Paver - Wolf Brother - Orion
- Meg Rosoff - How I Live Now - Puffin
- Leslie Wilson - Last Train from Kummersdorf - Faber
- 2006
- Nicola Davies - Home - Walker
- Joshua Doder - A Dog Called Grk - Andersen Press
- Frances Hardinge - Fly By Night - Macmillan Children’s Books
- Ann Kelley - The Burying Beetle - Luath Press
- Sarah Singleton - Century - Simon & Schuster
- Anthony McGowan - Hellbent - Doubleday
- Cat Weatherill - Barkbelly - Puffin
- 2007
- Linda Buckley-Archer - Gideon the Cutpurse - Simon & Schuster
- Siobhan Dowd - A Swift Pure Cry - David Fickling Books
- Charlie Fletcher - Stoneheart - Hodder
- Ally Kennen - Beast - Scholastic
- Sian Pattenden - The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke - Short Books
- Andy Stanton - You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum - Egmont
- Tabitha Suzuma - A Note of Madness - Random House
- 2008
- Atinuke - Anna Hibiscus - Walker
- L. Brittney - Nathan Fox: Dangerous Times - Macmillan
- Sharon Dogar - Waves - Chicken House
- Jenny Downham - Before I Die - David Fickling Books
- Sarah Mussi - The Door of No Return - Hodder
- Jenny Valentine - Finding Violet Park - HarperCollins
- 2009
- Jeremy de Quidt - The Toymaker - David Fickling Books
- B. R. Collins - The Traitor Game - Bloomsbury Publishing
- Sally Nicholls - Ways to Live Forever - Scholastic Press
- Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go - Walker Books
- Katy Moran - Bloodline - Walker Books
- Marie-Louise Jensen - Between Two Seas - Oxford University Press
- Emily Diamand - Flood Child (originally published as Reavers' Ransom) - Chicken House
- 2010
- Sarwat Chadda - Devil's Kiss - Puffin
- Lucy Christopher - Stolen - Chicken House
- Damian Kelleher - Life, Interrupted - Piccadilly Press
- Anna Perera - Guantanamo Boy - Puffin
- Dan Tunstall - Big and Clever - Five Leaves
- Rachel Ward - Numbers - Chicken House
- Victor Watson - Paradise Barn - Catnip
- 2011[1]
- J P Buxton - I Am the Blade - edited by Beverley Birch, Hachette
- Keren David - When I Was Joe - edited by Maurice Lyon, Frances Lincoln
- Candy Gourlay - Tall Story - edited by Bella Pearson, David Fickling Books
- Gregory Hughes - Unhooking the Moon - edited by Roisin Heycock, Quercus
- Jason Wallace - Out of Shadows - edited by Charlie Sheppard, Andersen Press
- Pat Walsh - The Crowfield Curse - edited by Imogen Cooper, Chicken House
See also
External links
- Announcement uploaded to The Federation of Children's Book Groups website [2]
- Branford Boase Award homepage
- Henrietta Branford homepage