COSTA BOOK AWARD WITH THIRD BOOK PUBLISHED
MAGGOT MOON by
Sally Gardner has won the 2012 Costa Children’s Book Award
MAGGOT MOON, the stunning novel with a
dyslexic hero at its heart, is the book closest to author Sally Gardner, herself
severely dyslexic and branded ‘unteachable’ when she was at school.
Set in a reimagined 1950s world under the ‘Motherland’s’
dictatorship, MAGGOT MOON is the heartbreaking but inspirational story of the
power of the imagination and friendship and has received great praise since
publication in August 2012, described as ‘the most original publication for years’ by the Times, ‘the
outstanding teenage novel of the autumn’ by the Telegraph and ‘… an inspirational piece of writing’ by
the New Statesman.
Sally Gardner said: ‘In
all my experience since becoming a full-time writer, winning this award is the
most phenomenal. I used to be an illustrator and now I paint with words; I've
discovered exactly what words can achieve as pictures. MAGGOT MOON is a book
I’ve always wanted to write and Standish has been waiting to be written for
years. It is thrilling that the
story now stands defiant in the world. It is a great honour to have won this
award, and for me, it goes towards proving the power of dreams.’
Hot
Key Books, part of Bonnier Publishing, was started up by MD Sarah Odedina,
previous Publisher/International Editor-in-Chief at Bloomsbury Children’s Books,
in September 2011, and launched its list in August this year to great acclaim.
Sarah
Odedina said: ‘We are over the moon that
Sally Gardner has won the 2012 Costa Children's Book Award with her outstanding
and original book MAGGOT MOON, and particularly delighted that it is just the
third book to be published by Hot Key Books. In it she has created a unique
voice and one of literature’s best heroes, Standish Treadwell.’
MAGGOT
MOON is available in hardback, paperback, ebook and as a Multi Touch edition
for the iPad. The adult edition will be published on 31 January 2012.
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