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 Congratulations to Sally Nicholls and Marie-Louise Jensen whose debut novels have been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. The prize focuses attention on emergent authors.
Marie Louise Jensen Between Two Seas (OUP) Synopsis: 'Travel to Skagen and find him. Give him my letter. Seek a better life, Marianne! Promise!' Bound by a vow made to her dying mother, Marianne sells her few belongings and leaves Grimsby. Her destination? Denmark, where she will search for her father, Lars Christensen-the golden-haired fisherman her mother fell in love with many years before. The journey will be long-and dangerous for a young girl travelling alone. As Marianne boards the fishing boat that will carry her across the North Sea, she wonders: will Denmark be the fairy-tale land she has dreamt of? Will she find happiness there? Will the father she has never met welcome the arrival of his illegitimate child? And why didn't he return for her mother, as he promised he would? Buy this Book Sally Nicholls Ways to Live Forever (MLB, Scholastic) Synopsis:Ways to Live Forever is the story of Sam. He is a boy who likes facts. He’s also interested in UFOs and ghosts - and death. He has terminal leukaemia, and is going to die. And dying is a fact of life. The no-nonsense questions that he asks about death demistify the taboos, and make this funny, sad, honest, tender book a life-enhancing experience. It’s for readers of all ages, and it will touch hearts and minds around the world. Buy this Book The other shortlisted titles are Tumtum and Nutmeg by Emily Bearn (Egmont) Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine (HarperCollins) Stone Goblins by David Melling (Hodder Children's Books) Blue Sky Freedom by Gabrielle Halberstam (Macmillan) Shadow Forest by Matt Haig (RHCB) Ancient Appetites by Oisín McGann (RHCB) TIM, Defender of the Earth by Sam Enthoven (RHCB)
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