Red House Children's Book Award 2012

Patrick Ness, author of the hugely popular The Chaos Walking Trilogy, has won the 2012 Red House Children's Book Award for A Monster Calls.

'The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn’t the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming... The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Costa Award winner Patrick Ness spins a tale from the final idea of much-loved Carnegie Medal winner Siobhan Dowd, whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself. Darkly mischievous and painfully funny, A Monster Calls is an extraordinarily moving novel of coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for young adults.' (Amazon.co.uk)

Both the Chaos Walking Trilogy and A Monster Calls can be borrowed from the library now.

More information can be found at:

Red House Book Award 2012- The Guardian Article

and

Official Website of the Red House Children's Book Award