Congratulations to Sally Nicholls, author of Ways To Live Forever, winner of the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2008

Sally Nicholls' fantastic win was announced at a ceremony at Waterstone's Piccadilly on 13th February 2008. The prize highlights and celebrates new talent, and winning it is an excellent start for a writing career.

Ways to Live Forever is a scrapbook of lists, stories, pictures, questions and facts put together by 11-year-old Sam. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukaemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody will answer.

Find out more about Sally Nicholls and her inspiring debut at our Ways to Live Forever minisite.

Catch up with Tom Becker who won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize in 2007 with Darkside… if you dare!