 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize 1998 Gold Medal in the 9 – 11 years division . Rowling also won two other Nestlé Smarties Book Prizes for Harry Potter and the Philosopher 's Stone and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban . The Scottish Arts Council awarded their first ever Children ’ s Book Award to the novel in 1999 , and it was also awarded Whitaker 's Platinum Book Award in 2001 . In 2003 , the novel was listed at number 23 on the BBC 's survey The Big Read . 
