Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals
Tanya Landman and William Grill win UK's oldest children's book awards
The Kate Greenaway and Carnegie medal winners for 2015: William Grill and Tanya Landman. Photograph: Sam Usher/Walker Books
Emily Drabble
Two books inspired by real-life historical adventures have taken CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals for 2015, the much coveted prizes voted for by the nation’s librarians. Tanya Landman’s wins the Carnegie medal with her historical novel Buffalo Soldier, inspired by the true story of former slave Cathy Williams, who disguised herself as a man and joined the army as William Cathay. The Kate Greenaway medal for illustration has been won by debut author and illustrator William Grill for his non-fiction account of Ernest Shackleton’s epic crossing of Antarctica in Shackleton’s Journey. At 25, he’s the youngest winner of the medal since Gerald Rose in 1960, beating the newly crowned Children’s laureate, Chris Riddell, to the title. More
Tanya Landman’s historical novel Buffalo Soldier and William Grill’s illustrated non-fiction book
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