Book Reviews by Kids

The Guardian Children's Fiction Award

Awarded to an outstanding work of fiction (not picture books) for children written by a British or Commonwealth author, first published in the UK during the calendar year preceding the year in which the award is presented. The winner is chosen by a panel of authors and the review editor for The Guardian's children's books section.

Full list of winners

2002 Sonya Hartnett Thursday's Child (Walker)

2001 Kevin Crossley-Holland The Seeing Stone (Orion)

2000 Jacqueline Wilson The Illustrated Mum (Transworld)

1999 Susan Price The Sterkarm Handshake (Scholastic)

1998 Henrietta Branford Fire, Bed and Bone (Walker)

1997 Melvin Burgess Junk (Penguin)

1996 Joint Winners: Philip Pulman Northern Lights (Scholastic) and Alison Prince The Sherwood Hero (Macmillan)

1995 Lesley Howarth MapHead (Walker Books)

1994 Sylvia Waugh The Mennyms (Julia MacRae)

1993 William Mayne Low Tide (Cape)

1992 Joint Winners: Rachel Anderson Paper Faces (Oxford University Press) and Hilary McKay The Exiles (Gollancz)

1991 Robert Westall The Kingdom by the Sea (Methuen)

1990 Anne Fine Goggle-Eyes (Hamish Hamilton)

1989 Geraldine McCaughrean A Pack of Lies (Oxford University Press)

1988 Ruth Thomas The Runaways (Hutchinson)

1987 James Aldridge The True Story of Spit MacPhee (Viking Kestrel)

1986 Ann Pilling Henry's Leg (Viking Kestrel)

1985 Ted Hughes What is the Truth (Faber)

1984 Dick King-Smith The Sheep-Pig (Gollancz)

1983 Anita Desai Village by the Sea (Heinemann)

1982 Michelle Magorian Goodnight Mr Tom (Kestrel)

1981 Peter Carter The Sentinels (Oxford University Press)

1980 Ann Schlee The Vandal (Macmillan)

1979 Andrew Davies Conrad's War (Blackie)

1978 Diana Wynne Jones A Charmed Life (Macmillan)

1977 Peter Dickinson The Blue Hawk (Gollancz)

1976 Nina Bawden The Peppermint Pig (Gollancz)

1975 Winifred Cawley Gran at Coalgate (Oxford University Press)

1974 Barbara Willard The Iron Lily (Longman Young Books)

1973 Richard Adams Watership Down (Rex Collings)

1972 Gillian Avery A Likely Lad (Collins)

1971 John Christopher The Guardians (Hamilton)

1970 K M Peyton Flambards (Oxford University Press)

1969 Joan Aiken The Whispering Mountain (Cape)

1968 Alan Garner The Owl Service (Collins)

1967 Leon Garfield Devil-in-a-Fog (Constable)