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Sophie McKenzie has won the overall prize in the prestigious Red House Children’s Book Award 2009 for her teen novel, Blood Ties.
The award is a highly regarded children’s prize for literature, voted for solely by young readers. It is second time lucky for Sophie, as her novel, Girl, Missing, won the older readers’ category in 2007.
Blood Ties (Simon and Schuster) won both the older readers’ category and overall prizes in the award, which is owned and co-ordinated by the Federation of Children’s Book Groups.
Sophie was presented with the prize at a glittering awards luncheon at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, attended by 200 people, including our very own Moira Arthur, Peter Sheldon and Carl McInerney, plus more than 80 children from across the country, all of whom were involved in the voting.
Two other category winners in the 29th annual award were Allan Ahlberg’s The Pencil (Walker), illustrated by Bruce Ingman, which was awarded the younger children category, while Kes Gray’s Daisy and the Trouble with Zoos (Random House) clinched the younger readers’ category.
An incredible 143,295 votes were cast by children and young adults all over the UK both online and through ballots collated by regional co-ordinators of the Federation of Children’s Book Groups.
Other titles shortlisted for the 2009 award were:
Younger children
Beware of the Frog by William Bee (Walker Books)
A Lark in the Ark by Peter Bently, Illus. Lynne Chapman (Egmont)
The Three Horrid Pigs and the Big Friendly Wolf by Liz Pichon (Little Tiger Press)
Younger readers
Cows in Action: Wild West Moo-nsters by Steve Cole (Red Fox)
The Cat Who Liked Rain by Henning Mankell (Andersen Press)
Older readers
Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior by Chris Bradford (Puffin)
Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine (Harper Collins)
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