Charlie Higson’s fifth Young Bond adventure, By Royal Command, has been shortlisted for a 2009 Independent Booksellers Prize, and it’s up to us fans to make sure it wins!

Vote for By Royal Command as your favorite Children’s Book of 2009 by picking up a voting postcard in store or emailing your choice to votes@booksellers.org.uk before 28th August 2009. Winners will be announced during September.

Both shortlists were voted for by Booksellers Association members from a longlist derived from sales data of bestselling books at independent bookshops.

The children's shortlist:

The Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore (HarperCollins)

Running on the Cracks by Julia Donaldson (Egmont)

The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson (Macmillan)

Tiddler by Julia Donaldson (Scholastic)

Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear by Andy Stanton (Egmont)

Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire by Derek Landy (HarperCollins)

Then by Morris Gleitzman (Puffin)

Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer (Puffin)

By Royal Command by Charlie Higson (Puffin)

Kaspar by Michael Morpurgo (HarperCollins)

The adult shortlist:

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Pocket Books)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (Bloomsbury)

Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks (Picador)

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Faber)

Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill (Granta)

Spilling the Beans by Clarissa Dickson-Wright (Hodder)

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury)

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Bloomsbury)

When Will There be Good News? by Kate Atkinson (Black Swan)

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic)

By Royal Command is out now in paperback.