The 2014 Carnegie Prize Longlist is out:
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/feb/04/carnegie-medal-2014-longlist
The Carnegie is the Booker of the Writing-for-Children world, but a lot longer established. Well worth a browse by any of us for the pick of what's going on in Children's writing at the moment. After all, even if you only write for adults, that's what the readers of the future will have grown up on.