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Jenny Valentine
Jenny Valentine
Born	1970; Cambridge
Occupation	author
Language	English
Nationality	British
Education	English literature
Alma mater	Goldsmiths' College
Genre	Children's literature
Years active	2007–present
Notable works	Finding Violet Park
Notable awards	Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
Spouse	Alex Valentine
Children	two

Jenny Valentine (born 1970) is an English children's novelist. For her first novel and best-known work, Finding Violet Park (HarperCollins, 2007), 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.^[1]^[2] Valentine lives in Glasbury-on-Wye, Wales^[3] with her husband singer/songwriter Alex Valentine, with whom she runs a health food shop in nearby Hay-on-Wye.^[4]

Writer

HarperCollins has published Valentine's novels in Britain and usually one year later in America. Finding Violet Park (2007) was re-titled Me, The Missing and The Dead in the US (2008).^[5] Beside winning the Guardian Prize^[1] it made the shortlist (seven finalists that year) for the annual Carnegie Medal, which the British librarians confer upon the year's best children's book published in the UK^[6]^[7] Basque, Catalan and Italian translations of the book were published in 2008, followed by versions in Dutch, French, German, Slovenian, Spanish, and Norwegian.^[8]

Her critically acclaimed second novel, Broken Soup, published in January 2008, was shortlisted for the 2008 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and the 2008 Costa Book Children's Book Award,^[9]^[10] and longlisted for the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize.^[11] By 2010 it had also been published in Dutch and German-language translations.^[8]

"Ten Stations", a short-story prequel to Finding Violet Park, was included among 2009 World Book Day publications.^{[clarification needed]} That year Valentine also inaugurated a series of short stories for young children entitled Iggy and Me.^[12] ^{[clarification needed]}

Valentine's third novel, The Ant Colony,^[13] was published in 2009.^[14] By 2011 it had been published in Dutch and in German translations.^[8]

Her fourth novel, The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight, was set in her home town of Hay-on-Wye.^[15] It was also her fourth novel nominated for the Carnegie Medal, i. e. it was one of the year's top forty children's books published in the UK, in the estimation of librarians.^[6] By 2011 it had also been published in Dutch.^[8]

Valentine takes part annually in the Hay Festival.

Works

Year	Title	Publisher	Annual awards
2007	Finding Violet Park (US) Me, the Missing, and the Dead	HarperCollins	2007 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize^[1] Carnegie Medal shortlist Manchester Book Award longlist^[16]
2008	Broken Soup	HarperCollins	Waterstone's Children's Book Prize shortlist^[9] Costa Book Children's Book Award shortlist^[10] Booktrust Teenage Prize longlist^[11] Manchester Book Award longlist^[16]
2009	"Ten Stations" (short story)	UK World Book Day
2009	The Ant Colony
2009	Iggy & Me (short story series)	HarperCollins
2010	The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight	HarperCollins
2010	Doppelganger	HarperCollins	^[17]
2010	Iggy & me (#1)	HarperCollins
2010	Iggy & me: The happy birthday (#2)	HarperCollins	^[18]^{[clarification needed]}
2010	Iggy & me on holiday (#3)	HarperCollins	^[19]
2011	Iggy & me and the baby (#4	HarperCollins	^[20]
2015	Fire Colour One	HarperCollins