And the Winner is...

On Thursday evening, the winners of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2013 were announced... Drum roll, please...

Picture book category winner: Lunchtime by Rebecca Cobb

Children's fiction category winner: Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Teenage fiction category winner: Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher

And the overall winner for 2013 is: Ketchup Clouds. Awesome. Annabel Pitcher has written a lovely blog post about the awards evening - wouldn't it have been brilliant to be a fly on the wall of that party? A room full of some of the best children's authors around and the people that support them and children's reading. I also recommend watching this fabulous video that Waterstones commissioned to show off the shortlist...