Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017 winner announced

The overall winner of this year’s Waterstones Children’s Book Prize is Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s debut novel, The Girl of Ink and Stars. A beautifully written fantasy story, the book was also awarded the prize for the Younger Fiction category.

Patrice Lawrence’s “Orangeboy” took the Older Fiction Prize and “There’s a Tiger in the Garden by Lizzie Stewart won the Illustrated Books category.

You can find out more about the winners and the shortlisted titles here