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Tag: Kate Greenaway Medal

Posted on November 4, 2019

Kate Greenaway Medal

Alongside the Carnegie Medal sits its sister prize the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal.  The nominations list for it has also been published today.  The nominating…

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Posted on May 24, 2017June 27, 2017

Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff and Alan Lee

Following on from yesterday's piece about the Carnegie Medal I'd like to draw your attention to a book that won its sister Medal.  The Kate…

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Posted on August 6, 2008August 6, 2008

The Blog’s Name

I expect that some of you recognise the allusion in the title of my blog.  It's to Lewis Carroll, of course, in Alice's Adventures in…

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