Hot on the heels of my last post on the Scottish Children's Book Awards Shortlist come the
Carnegie and Greenaway winners!
The winner of the Carnegie Award is Sally Gardner for
Maggot Moon (Hot Key)
. Sally, who is dyslexic, used her acceptance speech to speak up
for children for whom reading and writing does not come easily, and
the librarians and teachers that help them. She also criticised
Michael Gove's new curriculum.
The winner of the Kate Greenaway Award (for illustration) is Levi Pinfold for
Black Dog (Templar). Writer
and illustrator Levi also used his win to celebrate libraries and
librarians across the country.
Both
winning books are tales of triumph over terror. In Gardner's
Maggot
Moon,
the unlikely young hero Standish who, like his creator, is dyslexic,
stands up to a sinister dictatorship whilst friends and family around
him 'disappear'. Pinfold's
Black
Dog
sees a little girl called Small Hope facing fear head-on in the form
of a monstrous giant black dog.
Congratulations to all concerned!
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