| Dinosaurs Love Underpants | Claire Freedman & Ben Cort | Simon & Schuster |
| Horrid Henry Robs the Bank | Francesca Simon | Orion |
| Captain Underpants & the Preposterous Plight | Dav Pilkey | Scholastic |
| Artemis Fowl & the Time Paradox | Eoin Colfer | Puffin |
| Breaking Dawn | Stephenie Meyer | Atom |
| The Tales of Beedle the Bard | J.K. Rowing | Bloomsbury |
Judging by sales at Christmas, the whole nation is suffering from serious Harry Potter withdrawal symptoms: copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard were snapped up in their hundreds of thousands.
But the fourth book in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series saw some bookshops opening at midnight, just as they did for Harry Potter. Both Meyer and Eoin Colfer write books ostensibly aimed at teenagers but sophisticated enough to have developed a loyal adult readership too.
The latest adventures of Horrid Henry and Captain Underpants are full of the sort of mischief which appeals to any right-thinking schoolchild, and Claire Freedman, along with her illustrator Ben Cort, makes sure that younger readers aren’t denied the opportunity for underwear-related hilarity too.
But which of these six kept your offspring quiet enough to deserve being crowned WHSmith Children’s Book of the Year?
Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series has yet to receive the acclaim it deserves in the UK, so I hope Breaking Dawn wins… Meyer has created a fictional world and series to rival Harry Potter.
I Agree 100% I enjoyed the books greatly and as soon as I finished Twilight I Immediately Went out and bought the rest of the series she has truly created a world which in my opinion is better than Harry Potter
The Twilight universe is brilliant and all the books are fantastic. Once I read the first, I went out and bought the series and read all four in a week!
However, I think if we are going on actual writing, J K Rowling beats Stepehenie Meyer. Though she is brilliant, J K Rowling is better.
It would be stupid for Tales of Beadle and Bard to win though, because its such a tiny book and, in my opinion, was boring! Breaking Dawn beats it.
The Twilight Series doesn’t beat Harry Potter.
The twilight universe has yet to be shown to most people in the U.K, and it is a brilliant and inspiring place where true love really does exist.
Once I had read twilight just before Christmas I immediately went out and bought the rest, and i read them all in the space of a week!
I think hands down they are far better than anything that J.K Rowling has ever written especially The tales of Beedle the Bard.
I sincerely hope that Stephenie Meyers Twilight wins and finally gets the acclaim it deserves in the United Kingom.
hs anybody heard of the book called “ways to live forever” its about a boy with leukemia and its the kind of book where you need to ye at least three box of tissues!!