Children's Book of the Year was awarded to JK Rowling for the third of her phenomenally successful novels about apprentice wizard Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - a book named by the judges as runner-up to the overall winner.

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Les Bleus would have to face another group runner-up over two legs this fall to book their place in Brazil.

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Her first book, "Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth" was also a Newbery honor book in 1968, making her the only author to be a winner and runner-up in the same year.

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Three studios bid on the book. 20th Century Fox and Ridley Scott, director of the blockbuster science-fiction films "Blade Runner" and "Alien, " optioned it.

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