Wednesday 18 May 2011

Bisto Book Awards 2011 - The Winners

And here they are...

The Bisto Book of the Year Award – Chris Haughton’s A Bit Lost



The Eilís Dillon award for a first children’s book – Chris Haughton’s A Bit Lost (as far as I know this is the first time two awards have gone to the same author)

The Honour Award for Fiction – Sheena Wilkinson’s Taking Flight

The Honour Award for Illustration – Caitríona Hastings and Andrew Whitson’s Mac Rí Éireann

The Special Judges Award – Oliver Jeffers’ Heart and the Bottle

The Children’s Choice Award (voted for by children's juries all around the country) - Sheena Wilkinson for Taking Flight!

Congrats to all the winners.

More details can be found on the CBI site here and analysis of the awards (and some books and authors that missed out on a nomination) can be found here on the new-look Inis magazine's web site