Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Book News - January 2019

Costa Book Awards

The Skylark's War by Hilary McKay has won the 2018 Costa Children's Book Awards.  It's on our
wish list!  Meanwhile other brilliant titles by Hilary McKay are available to borrow from the Discovery Library.

Sally Rooney's Normal People won the Costa Novel Book Award and is a coming-of-age novel set in Ireland.  I thoroughly enjoyed reading this over the Christmas holidays.

Authors/Illustrators
Chris Riddell OBE

Chris Riddell, award winning author and illustrator and former Children's Laureate, has been awarded an OBE in the 2019 New Years Honours for services to illustration and charity work.  

Acclaimed children's author and illustrator John Burningham has died this month aged 82.  Winner of the Kate Greenaway Award, his books feature exquisite illustration and delightful prose and include children's favourites such as  Mr Gumpy's Outing and Avocado Baby.
John Burningham

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