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NEWS
CILIP Carnegie and Greenaway shortlists announced
In this, the Carnegie Medal’s 70th anniversary year, the shortlist for 2007 is:
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Jan Mark Memorial Bursary Fund
You are invited to contribute to the setting up of a fund by Ty Newydd in memory of the life and work of Jan Mark. The fund will provide an annual bursary for a writer to attend the Writing for Children course at Ty Newydd where Jan Mark was a regular tutor and guest. Cheques should be made out to Taliesin Trust Ltd and marked ‘Jan Mark BF’ on the back. Please send to: The Bursar, Ty Newydd, Llanystymdwy, Cricieth, Gwynedd LL52 OLW.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Marginalising Essentials
Dear Editor
Having seized upon the latest issue of Books for Keeps with my usual glee, I am again left feeling completely fed-up and disillusioned by another thoughtless attack on the education system.
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INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
The Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2006
The Hans Christian Andersen Jury of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) has announced that Margaret Mahy (New Zealand) is the winner of the 2006 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award and Wolf Erlbruch (Germany) is the winner of the 2006 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration. Margaret Mahy has won the Carnegie Medal twice.
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Children Write in Protest Against Poverty
The UK has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the industrialised world and housing inequalities are at their worst since the Victorian era. Now the charities, Shelter and End Child Poverty, have published a unique
anthology,
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