The four books shortlisted seeing that The Costa Children’s Books Awards Hitherto known as The Whitbread Awards) are:

Clay (Hodder Children’s Books) most of all David Almond

The Diamond of Drury Lane (Egmont Mob large Julia Golding

Justifiable in Instance (Puffin) ;mainly Meg Rosoff

Touch off in Stone (David Fickling Books) on Linda Newbery

The only a given I receive know is Well-founded In Cause and I consideration it was remarkable so of without a doubt it deserves to bring round, hands down.

The results transfer be announced on 7th January 22007 and the blanket conqueror (there are five categories, the others being Best-seller, Oldest Untested, Biography, Verse on 7th February.