Branford Boase Award

The Branford Boase Award is a British literary prize, which is awarded annually in July to the author of an outstanding, first youth book by this author. The prize is worth £ 1,000. In addition, the author and the publisher of the winning book receives a black box with the silver-plated logo of the competition.

Background

The price thus trying to honor those who had worked closely for many years and finally in quick succession both died from cancer in 1999 the memory of the children's book author Henrietta Branford and the production manager of the independent children's and youth book publisher Walker Books, Wendy Boase. The foundation of the price under this name was a common idea of Julia Eccleshare and Anne Marley. Accompanying the price of the annual Henrietta Branford Writing Competition for under 19 -year-old junior authors.

The jury includes in addition to the chairman, Julia Eccleshare, children's book editor of the Guardian and literary critic, librarian Tricia Adams, the freelance Researcher Helen Boyle and or the most recent winner of the Branford Boase Award.

Is financially supported the price and the junior seminary of the following organizations and publishing houses: the National Literacy Trust, Arts Council of England, Walker Books, David Fickling Books, Collins Children's Books, Random House Children's Books, Transworld Children's Books, Hodder Children 's Books, Puffin, Egmont Children's Books, Anderson Press, Orchard Books, Macmillan Children 's Books, A & C Black, Bloomsbury Children's Books, Gallimard Jeunesse, Simon and Shuster Children's Books, Piccadilly Press, Old Possum 's Practical Trust, Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation and BBA Founding Friends.

Submitted 20 tracks on the first competition, so it was in 2010 already 60 candidates.

Award winners

• 2000 Katherine Roberts - Song Quest
• 2001 Marcus Sedgwick - Floodland
• 2002 Sally Prue - Cold Tom
• 2003 Kevin Brooks - Martyn Pig ( dt Martyn Pig, 2004)
• 2004 Mal Peet - Keeper ( German Keeper, 2006)
• Meg Rosoff 2005 - How I live now (English How I Live Now, 2005)
• 2006 Frances Hardinge - Fly by night (Eng. The mistress of words, 2006)
• Siobhan Dowd 2007 - A swift, pure cry (Eng. A pure cry, 2006)
• 2008 Jenny Downham - Before I Die (Eng. Before I die, 2008)
• 2009 Bridget Collins - The Traitor Game
• 2010 Lucy Christopher - Stolen (Eng. I wish I could hate you, 2011)
• 2011 Jason Wallace - Out of Shadows
• 2012 Annabel Pitcher - My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

Shortlist / Selection List

• 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

• Nick 's - Control Shift - Hodder
• William Nicholson - The Wind Singer - Egmont
• Hazel Riley - Thani - OUP
• Marcus Sedgwick - Floodland - Orion

• 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

• 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 Quigley - David Fickling Books
• Nicky Singer - Feather Boy - HarperCollins

• 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

• 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 sorrow village - Faber

• Nicola Davies - Home - Walker
• Joshua D ​​or - 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

• Linda Buckley - Archer - Gideon the Cutpurse - Simon & Schuster
• Siobhan Dowd - A Swift Pure Cry - David Fickling Books
• Charlie Fletcher - Stoneheart - Hodder
• Ally know - 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

• Atinuke - Anna Hibiscus - Walker
• Brittney L. - 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

• Jeremy de Quidt - The Toymaker - David Fickling Books
• BR 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 ( Original title: Reavers ' Ransom ) - Chicken House

• 2010 Sarwat Chadda - Devil's Kiss - Puffin
• Lucy Christopher - Stolen - Chicken House
• Damian Kelleher - Life, Interrupted - Piccadilly Press
• Dan Tunstall - Big and Clever - Five Leaves
• Rachel Ward - Numbers - Chicken House
• Victor Watson - Paradise Barn - Catnip

• 2011 J P Buxton - I Am the Blade - Hachette
• Keren David - When I Was Joe - Frances Lincoln
• Candy Gourlay - Tall Story - David Fickling Books
• Gregory Hughes - Unhooking the Moon - Quercus
• Jason Wallace - Out of Shadows - Andersen Press
• Pat Walsh - The Crowfield Curse - Chicken House

• 2012 Lindsey Barraclough - Long Lankin ( Bodley Head )
• Phil Earle - Being Billy ( Puffin )
• Lissa Evans - Small Change for Stuart ( Bodley Head )
• Ali Lewis - Everybody Jam ( Andersen Press)
• Gill Lewis - Sky Hawk - edited by Liz Cross ( OUP )
• Irfan Master - A Beautiful Lie (Bloomsbury )
• Annabel Pitcher - My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece ( Orion )