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You might have wondered what Agnes Nieuwenhuizen has been doing since she retired as manager from the Centre for Youth Literature.
She’s been busy. Writing a guide to teenage books.
As I am in it I can’t say too much, but New Zealand bookman Graham Beattie has been reading it.
The publisher’s website has more.
We are all very Yay to learn that Jenny Valentine has won the 2007 Guardian Fiction Prize for Finding Violet Park (featured in the latest CYL Newsletter).
Finding Violet Park was also on the 2007 Inkys Longlist.
Remember reading sad books as a kid? Do you think it damaged you for life? This lady does, and she’s planning to BURN all children’s books with sad endings. Oh, I hear you say. That must be one of those crazy American things. Nope. It’s British. It’s an initiative of the Happy Endings Foundation’s East [...]
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