Patrick Ness and Jim Kay for A Monster Calls and Liz Pichon for The Brilliant World Of Tom Gates are the winners at the Red House Book Awards 2012.
Jim Kay has illustrated A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. Kay is a children's illustrator and was previously Assistant Curator for the Illustrations Collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.
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A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd, won Children's Book Of The Year 2012 at the Red House Book awards
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Liz Pichon is the author of the Tom Gates series
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Liz Pichon, whose first Tom Gates book won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011 Photo: Martin Chilton
By Martin Chilton, Digital Culture Editor - The Telegraph - 18 February, 2012
Patrick Nessdeclared himself "properly chuffed" after winning the Red HouseChildren’s Book Award 2012.Ness won for his moving novel A Monster Calls, whichis beautifully illustrated by Jim Kay. It is the tale of Conor O'Malley, a13-year-old boy who is repeatedly visited by a monster while his mother isdying. Ness took an original story from the brilliant writer Siobhan Dowd, whodied of breast cancer at the age of 47 before completing her fifth novel, andweaved a haunting, gut-wrenching tale.
Ness said: “Winning the Red House is terrific, especially because it's chosen by young readers themselves. Trust me, as a writer for young people, I know how bracingly honest they can be about their opinions, so to have been selected from a really strong shortlist is a splendid feeling. Properly chuffed.“
Their victory was announced at an awards ceremony held at Imagine Children’s Festival at London’s Southbank Centre, and Kay said: “I'm bowled over by this. It's the first award I've ever been involved in, it's great to think that it's all down to young people reading and discussing wonderful new stories. As an illustrator it's been a pleasure to work on such a brave and moving book.” Ness tweeted about how brilliant it was to accept the award in front of "900 children with noisemakers".
Chris Wormell’s Scruffy Bear and the Six White Mice won the category for Younger Children, while Liz Pichon, winner of the 2011 Roald Dahl Funny Prize, clinched the Younger Readers’ category for the witty The Brilliant World of Tom Gates.
Voted for solely by young readers from a shortlist drawn up by children’s book groups across Britain, the Red House award is recognised as a key indicator of which books are popular with children.
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