Lesley Howarth


Lesley Howarth is a British author of children's and young adult fiction. For the novel Maphead, published by Walker Books in 1994, she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a runner-up for the Carnegie Medal.
Reviewers including Philip Pullman have remarked upon Howarth's ability to "humanize" highly technical or unusual subjects, a tendency which she calls "the romance of hard things".

Biography

Howarth was born 29 December 1952 in Bournemouth, England. As a child, she attended the Bournemouth School for Girls, then, as an adult, received education from the Bournemouth College of Art and Croydon College of Art.

Awards

The Pits is a Junior Library Guild book.
In January 2000, The Guardian named Mister Spaceman the children's book of the week.
YearTitleAwardResultRef.
1993'Whitbread Children's Book AwardShortlist
1994MapHeadCarnegie MedalShortlist
1995MapHeadGuardian Children's Fiction AwardWinner
1995Weather EyeNestlé Smarties Book Prize Winner'
1995MapHeadW. H. Smith Mind Boggling Books AwardShortlist
1995MapHeadYoung Telegraph'' Book AwardShortlist

Works

The Flower King MapHead Weather Eye The Pits Fort Biscuit, illustrated by Ann Kronheimer