Kate Thompson wins Whitbread Children's Book Award
Irish author Kate Thompson has won this year's Whitbread Children's Book Award with her novel The New Policeman.
Already the winner of The Guardian Children's Book Prize 2005, The New Policeman is a novel about time, or the lack of it, magic and music, from the winner who has won the Irish Children's Book of the Year Bisto Award three times.
The winners of the other categories were:
Poetry - Christopher Logue for The Iliad
Novel - Ali Smith for The Accidental
First Novel - Tash Aw for The Harmony Silk Factory
Biography - Hilary Spurling for Matisse the Master
How the media covered the award:
RTE
The Times
The Guardian
National Business Review
Already the winner of The Guardian Children's Book Prize 2005, The New Policeman is a novel about time, or the lack of it, magic and music, from the winner who has won the Irish Children's Book of the Year Bisto Award three times.
The winners of the other categories were:
Poetry - Christopher Logue for The Iliad
Novel - Ali Smith for The Accidental
First Novel - Tash Aw for The Harmony Silk Factory
Biography - Hilary Spurling for Matisse the Master
How the media covered the award:
RTE
The Times
The Guardian
National Business Review
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