Tag Archives: Candy Gourlay
Carnegie Medal Longlist Controversy
I was once nominated for the Carnegie medal; it was back in 1999 for Simone’s Letters. I can’t tell you how delighted I was – the Carnegie Medal was the children’s book award as far as I was concerned and to be nominated was the ultimate accolade (although I suppose winning would have been the […]
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Authors for the Philippines
I was going to write a blog onTerry Deary’s latest daft outburst about libraries but then something more important came along; namely the 4,000 people killed and 500,000 left homeless in the Philippines by Typhoon Haiyan. A scene of devastation left from Typhoon Haiyan One of the children’s writers I […]
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Things keep happening that make me go @**!!argh@*
I want to write a blog that’s funny and upbeat. Honest, I really do. But THINGS KEEP HAPPENING. You won’t believe this one; I’m telling you, you won’t. First of all, check out this picture: This is poet Ian McMillan Does this look like a subversive man to you? A man so dangerous in his […]
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