What can we infer from the passage?
Tom Becker is likely to be a most promising novelist in children's writing in the future.
Darren Shan's novels are all very popular with children between the ages of 9 and 12.
The Waterstone's children's book prize is an important prize for young novelists.
The novels of Michael Broad, Philip Caveney and Siobhan Dowd will be on the shortlist next year.