Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books: Favourite Book Reads (Full End of Year Review 2016)

Favourite Children's Reads 2016!

• M. G. Leonard - Beetle Boy (The Battle of the Beetles) - Chicken House
• Cat Mantra - Actual Reality - Book Guild Publishing Ltd
• Stewart Foster - Bubble Boy - Simon & Schuster Children's
• Christopher Edge - The Many Worlds of Albie Bright - Nosy Crow 
•  Philip Caveney - The Calling - Fledgling Press
• Michelle Harrison - The Other Alice - Simon & Schuster Children's
• Jennifer Bell - The Crooked Sixpence - Corgi Childrens
• Robin Jarvis - The Power of Dark (The Witching Legacy) - Egmont
• Cameron McAllister - The Demon Undertaker - Corgi Childrens 
• Eugene Lambert - The Sign of One (Sign of One 1) - Electric Monkey
• Ali Benjamin - The Thing about Jellyfish - Macmillan Children's Books
• Dave Rudden - Knights of the Borrowed Dark - Puffin                                     

Favourite Children's Book Series 2016!

• Peter Jay Black - Urban Outlaws - Bloomsbury Children's
• Huw Powell - Space Jackers - Bloomsbury Children's
• Ellen Caldecott - Marsh Road Mysteries - Bloomsbury Children's  

Favourite Adult Book Reads 2016!

• H. P Wood - Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet - Sourcebooks Landmark
• Peter Newman - The Vagrant - Harper Voyage 
• Brandon Sanderson - Calamity (Reckoners) - Gollancz  

Favourite Children's Publisher 2016!

• Chicken House
• Bloomsbury
• Simon & Shuster

Favourite Book Cover 2016!

• Roderick Gordon - Summerhouse Land - Book Cover by Stanley Donwood

Favourite Comic 2016!

• The Phoenix Comic - David Fickling

Favourite Picture Book 2016!

• David Litchfield - The Bear and the Piano -  Frances Lincoln Children's Books

Favourite Event 2016!

• Comic Art Festival Kendal

Favourite Interview Post 2016!

• Joe Craig 

Favourite Guest Post!

• Philip Caveney

Favourite Pro-active Authors!

• SF Said
• Andy Briggs
• Abi Elphinstone

Favourite Blog 2016!

• MG Strikes Back - http://middlegradestrikesback.blogspot.co.uk

Favourite Illustrator 2016!

• Chris Mould
• Chris Riddell

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the publishers, authors/illustrators, readers and everyone who has supported Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books throughout 2016. Without you, there is no blog. I hope you all having a cracking 2017. Keep reading and believing the imagination is a wonder of the world.