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June 15, 2016 ALMA / Event / Homerton College / KM Peyton / Meg Rosoff / Pony books

Horsing around

By Sarah Hardstaff, photos copyright Siddharth Pandey In my last blog post (here), I mentioned the HorseTales Conference organised by Zoe Jaques,

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April 19, 2016 ALMA / Children's Literature / University of Cambridge

ALMA 2016 – Meg Rosoff wins!

This week’s blog is by Xiafei Shi, a PhD student here whose research interest is in crossover literature, picturebooks, and cognitive

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March 17, 2013 A Boy and A Bear In A Boat / ALMA / Carnegie Medal / Children / Children's Literature / Dave Shelton / Kate Greenaway Medal / libraries / Man Booker Prize / readers / YA literature

Musings on Medals

I had every intention of using this week’s blog to offer some deep insight into this year’s CILIP Carnegie and

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June 17, 2012 Carnegie Medal / Chaos Walking / Child Soldiers / Children / Children's Literature / Jim Kay / Kate Greenaway Medal / Kim Phuc / Monsters of Men / Patrick Ness / Syria / Vietnam War / war

Monsters of Men and Other Memories

Last week, author Patrick Ness won the Carnegie Medal, and illustrator Jim Kay won the Kate Greenaway Medal for A

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March 11, 2012 Alex Rider / Anthony Horowitz / authorial intention / Blue Peter / fiction / Film / Harry Potter / Jeff Kinney / JK Rowling / Michael Morpurgo / research / Wimpy Kid / World Book Day

Decade of the Wimpy Kid

This years World Book Day witnessed the crowning of a new literary hero when Blue Peter viewers voted the Diary

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June 26, 2011 Alice / Award / Lewis Carroll / non-fiction

‘A Caucus-race and a long tale’: prizes for children’s literature

By Debbie “The race is over!” and they all crowded round it panting, and asking “But who has won?” …

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May 8, 2011 ALMA / Award / news / open day

This week’s news

by Clementine It’s the Sunday post! Time to share the latest news from the Children’s Literature Research Centre. Graduation, elderflower

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April 1, 2011 ALMA / Award / picturebooks / Shaun Tan

Tales from Inner Academia

by Debbie For Shaun Tan, it’s a tale of two awards. Last month an Oscar, no less, for his short

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March 30, 2011 ALMA / Award / Shaun Tan

Shaun Tan wins the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

2011 is definitely a lucky year for author and illustrator Shaun Tan, who was announced this morning as the new

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