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David Almond, the British author of Skelig, was selected by children’s literature experts from around the globe as the winner of the most prestigious prize that can be won by a child author. Previously, Almond has also been honoured with a Whitbread children’s prize and the Carnegie medal for Skellig which is the story of a [...]  The British made a strong showing at the National Book Critics’ Circle awards this year. The NBCC is a non-profit organization of editors and critics based in New York, and accepts nominations and submissions from authors worldwide, as long as the material is published in the U.S. Three of the six prizes awarded at the March ceremony [...] Debut author Katie Davies won the Waterstone’s children’s book prize for a book entitled The Great Hamster Massacre. The plotline of the book focuses on two girls who set out to solve a murder mystery involving a slew of dead hamsters aimed at children between the ages of seven to ten, making it the first [...] |
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