The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award is a prominent award for works of children's literature by British or Commonwealth authors, published in the UK during the preceding year. The award has been given annually since 1967, and is decided by a panel of authors and the review editor for The Guardian's children's books section. It may be compared with the American Newbery Medal. Jane Frank: illustration from Thomas Yoseloffs The Further Adventures of Till Eulenspiegel (1957). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association (ALA) to the author of the outstanding American book for children. ...

The Guardian also promotes a literary prize for adult fiction, see Guardian First Book Award. Guardian First Book Award issued before 1999 as Guardian Fiction Prize or Guardian Fiction Award is awarded to new writing in fiction and non-fiction. ...

List of Prize Winners

• 2006 Philip Reeve, A Darkling Plain (Scholastic)
• 2005 Kate Thompson, The New Policeman (Bodley Head)
• 2004 Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now (Puffin)
• 2003 Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (David Fickling)
• 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 Pullman, Northern Lights (Scholastic; published in North America as The Golden Compass)
  • 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)
  • 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) (this book served as the basis for the movie Babe)
• 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, 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)

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Shortlisted books

• 2005
  Julie Hearn, The Merrybegot
  Alex Shearer, The Hunted
  Tim Wynne-Jones, The Boy in the burning house
• 2004
  Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions
  Ann Turnbull, No Shame, No Fear
  Leslie Wilson, Last Train from Kummersdorf
• 2003
  Kevin Brooks, Lucas
  Alex Shearer, The Speed of the Dark
  David Almond, The Fire Eaters
• 2002
  Keith Gray, Warehouse
  Elizabeth Laird, Jake's Tower
  Linda Newbery, The shell house
  Terry Pratchett, The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents
  Marcus Sedgwick, The dark horse
• 2001
  Allan Ahlberg, My brother's ghost
  Celia Rees, Witch Child
  Karen Wallace, Raspberries on the Yangtze
• 1999
  David Almond, Kit's Wilderness
  Bernard Ashley, Little soldier
  Susan Cooper, King of shadows
  Jan Mark, The eclipse of the century
  J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• 1998
  Jamila Gavin, The track of the Wind (Mammoth)
  J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Bloomsbury)
  Jane Stemp, Secret Songs (Hodder Children's Books)
• 1996
  Beverley Naidoo, No Turning Back
• 1994
  Jamila Gavin, The Eye of the Horse
• 1992
  Jamila Gavin, The Wheel of Surya - Special runner-up
• 1990
  Gillian Cross, Wolf
• 1987
  Anne Fine, Madame Doubtfire (Puffin)
• 1984
  Anne Fine, The Granny Project (Puffin)
• 1983
  Gillian Cross, The Dark Behind the Curtain
• 1980
  Gillian Cross, The Iron Way
• 1975
  Anne Fine, The Summer House Loon (Puffin)

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Longlisted books

• 2006
  David Almond, Clay (Hodder)
  Frank Cottrell Boyce, Framed (Macmillan)
  Patrick Cave, Blown Away (Simon and Schuster)
  Siobhan Dowd, A Swift Pure Cry (Doubleday)
  Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night (Macmillan)
  Jill Murphy, The Worst Witch saves the day (Penguin)
  Philip Reeve, A Darkling Plain (Scholastic)
  Tim Wynne-Jones, The Survival Game (Usborne)
• 2005
  Kevin Brooks, Candy (Chicken House)
  Michelle Paver, Wolf Brother (Orion)
  Philippa Pearce, The Little Gentleman (Puffin)
  Christopher Russell, Brind and the Dogs of War (Puffin)
• 2004
  Patricia Elliott, Murkmere (Hodder)
  Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful (Collins)
  Kevin Brooks, Kissing the Rain (Chicken House)
  Jan Mark, Useful Idiots (David Fickling)
• 2003
  Jean Ure, Bad Alice
  Marcus Sedgwick, The Book of Dead Days
  Keith Gray, Malarkey
  Simon French, Where in the World

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See also

• Blue Peter Book Awards
• Carnegie Medal
• Children's Laureate
• Kate Greenaway Medal
• Nestle Smarties Book Prize

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External links

• Guardian Award
• British Children's Literary Awards