Watch video interviews with the Waterstones children's book prize winners

What’s it like to go to a major book prize award ceremony and interview all the winning authors? We sent BritishBiblioholic to the Waterstones children’s book prize - find out how she fared and watch her video interviews with winners Rob Biddulph, Sally Green and Robin Stevens

• Read our news story about the prize, with links to find out more about the winning books
  

It was 2.58pm when I stepped down onto the platform at King’s Cross, feeling extremely excited about the fact that I was attending the Waterstones children’s book prize award ceremony later that evening. It was going to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and it just seemed incredible that I had been chosen to attend. Equally incredible was the thought that, in just a few hours, I might be meeting all of the 18 shortlisted authors.

In the three hours before the event started at Waterstones Piccadilly at 6.30pm, I ate, tweeted, responded to messages, set up my camera, reviewed the questions I had prepared on the train earlier for the author interviews I would later be conducting. Finding Waterstones wasn’t difficult at all. The six-story bookstore, which also operates as the head office for the entire company, lies only a minute or two along Piccadilly itself. The biggest bookshop in Europe, it surely is an impressive building, and I took a few moments to admire it before entering.

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