Winners of Multiple Awards
Prior to winning the 2012 Red House Award, Overall, A Monster Calls was named the 2011 British Children's Book of the Year. Subsequently Ness and Kay as author and illustrator won both annual children's book awards from the professional librarians, the Carnegie Medal and Greenaway Medal; that double award alone was an unprecedented sweep. In fact, no previous Children's/Red House Award winner (Overall) has won the Carnegie Medal and only one has won the Greenaway Medal for illustration: the inaugural Children's winner Mr Magnolia (Jonathan Cape, 1980), written and illustrated by Quentin Blake.
- Authors with multiple Children's/Red House awards
Michael Morpurgo has won three Overall awards for Kensuke's Kingdom in 2000, Private Peaceful in 2004, and Shadow in 2011. He has also won category awards for The Wreck of the Zanzibar in 1996 and Out of Ashes in 2002.
Four other authors have won two Overall awards:
- Roald Dahl 1983, 1989
- Robert Swindells 1985, 1990
- Jacqueline Wilson 1993, 1996
- J. K. Rowling 1998, 1999
J. K. Rowling won the Long Novel category four years in succession, 1998 to 2001, for the first four Harry Potter books.
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