Tuesday, January 11, 2011

TV designer makes children's book prize list


The designer of TV show Bob the Builder has made the shortlist for the annual Waterstone's Children's Book prize.

Curtis Jobling, who also worked as an animator on Wallace & Gromit's A Close Shave, is nominated for Wereworld: Rise of the Wolf, his debut novel about a teenager who learns he is a werewolf.

He is one of nine authors who are up for the £5,000 prize, now in its seventh year.
In addition to Wereworld: Rise of the Wolf (Puffin) the nine-strong list includes two from Bloomsbury: A Beautiful Lie by Irfan Master and Mortlock by Jon Mayhew.


The other shortlisted titles are : Artichoke Hearts by Sita Brahmachari (Macmillan), The Memory Cage by Ruth Eastham (Scholastic), Tall Story by Candy Gourlay (David Fickling Books) and The Pain Merchants: The Healing Wars by Janice Hardy (HarperCollins). The final titles are Fantastic Frankie and the Brain-Drain Machine by Anna Kemp (Simon & Schuster) and When you Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Andersen Press).

Children's Laureate Anthony Browne will announce the winner on 9 February.
The prize is open to authors writing for 7-13 year-olds who have written two fiction titles or less.

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