The latest winner of the Guardian Children's Book Prize is featured below along with a complete list of all previous winners, and a link to our index of all book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees.

The Guardian Children's Book Prize is given by the Guardian Newspaper of England. "Founded in 1967, the prize has a tradition of finding new voices in children's fiction before the rest of the world is aware of them." The current prize is £1,500.

The latest winner of the Guardian Children's Book Prize

1967 - Devil-in-a-Fog by Leon Garfield

1968 - The Owl Service by Alan Garner

1969 - The Whispering Mountain by Joan Aiken

1970 - Flambards by K. M. Peyton

1971 - The Guardians by John Christopher

1972 - A Likely Lad by Gillian Avery

1973 - Watership Down by Richard Adams

1974 - The Iron Lily by Barbara Willard

1975 - Gran at Coalgate by Winifred Cawley

1976 - The Peppermint Pig by Nina Bawden

1977 - The Blue Hawk by Peter Dickinson

1978 - Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones

1979 - Conrad's War by Andrew Davies

1980 - The Vandal by Ann Schlee

1981 - The Sentinels by Peter Carter

1982 - Goodnight Mr. Tom by Michelle Majorian

1983 - Village by the Sea by Anita Desai

1984 - The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith

1985 - What is the Truth by Ted Hughes

1986 - Henry's Leg by Ann Pilling

1987 - The True Story of Spit MacPhee by James Aldridge

1988 - The Runaways by Ruth Thomas

1989 - A Pack of Lies by Geraldine McCaughrean

1990 - Goggle-Eyes by Anne Fine

1991 - The Kingdom by the Sea by Robert Westall

1992 - Paper Faces by Rachel Anderson  &  The Exiles by Hilary Mckay

1993 - Low Tide by William Mayne

1994 - The Mennyms by Sylvia Waugh

1995 - MapHead by Lesley Howarth

1996 - Northern Lights by Philip Pullman  &  The Sherwood Hero by Alison Prince

1997 - Junk by Melvin Burgess

1998 - Fire, Bed and Bone by Henrietta Branford

1999 - The Sterkarm Handshake by Susan Price

2000 - The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson

2001 - The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland

2002 - Thursday's Child by Sonya Hartnett

2003 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

2004 - How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

2005 - The New Policeman by Kate Thompson

2006 - A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve

2007 - Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine

2008 - The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

2009 - Award will be announced September 2009

(Visit our Book Awards Index for a complete list of the dozens of book awards listed on Happy Dead Trees.) 

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