[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] "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.
[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.