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Waterstone's Children's Book Prize winner

CarolCarol
edited February 2009 in - Reading
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7897877.stm

Comments

  • LizLiz
    Pah! My friend didn't win... but she said that this book is extremely good...
  • doradora
    Not much of a write up. Away with the fairies and all that ....xzzzzzzzzzzzzzz been there, done that
  • LizLiz
    Read Elen's then.... it'll make you cry...
  • doradora
    What's it called?
  • LizLiz
    How Kirsty Jones Stole the Elephant
  • doradora
    Hmm. Sounds more interesting than that fairy story.
  • LizLiz
    It's a lovely story. My name is in the back... Elen is in my writing group.
  • TessadragonTessadragon
    The fairy story sounds interesting, I'll look around for it.
  • NefertariNefertari
    I had started writing a book about a teenage boy who sees fairies! Perhaps I'll leave it now!
  • LizLiz
    edited February 2009
    Eeeg! You can always read it and see if it is different enough. I was just mailed by Marie-Louise , who I also know, she also didn't get it, but she is the only person to have been nominated twice!
  • JennyJenny
    Liz - hope one of your friends is successful next time!
  • LizLiz
    Any of my friends would be wonderful, and I include all you. But Elen's book was the one she started on the Uni course I did, we were in the same group, so I've seen it grow from the first chapter on.... and even after the course finished we kept meeting, so the rest of the writing of the book, through her getting an agent, to getting published, have all been lived through, so it's really special to me. It's still a brillliant, lovely, heartwarming story though, and just being nominated means it will sell well.
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