STOP PRESS! Frank Cottrell Boyce
wins The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize.
Just as the current issue of Carousel (52) emerged from the printers, the winner of The Guardian Prize was announced. An article in this issue examines the eight
books on the longlist, all worth closer inspection. Now we know the winner is Boyce’s The Unforgotten Coat, his story, based
on a real event, is about two young Tibetan refugees who find themselves in a
Merseyside primary school. Julia
Eccleshare, The Guardian’s children’s
books editor, described the book as a “heart-warming, imaginative, funny story
with a very serious message at its heart.”
Congratulations to Frank Cottrell Boyce, to the judges, authors Cressida
Cowell, Tony Bradman and Kevin Crossley-Holland, whose choice of longlist and
winner compliments and enriches children’s reading and to The Guardian which makes it possible for this attention to be drawn
to these eight books of substance, insight and humour.
Pat Thomson
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