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Prizes and surprises
Blimey! What an exciting and surprising month it’s been. One of my recent translations, The War within These Walls, written by Aline Sax, illustrated by Caryl Strzelecki, and published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, has won a hat-trick of amazing awards in the United States: the Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult […]
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The Letter for the King
Coming soon… I’m over the moon that Pushkin Press are to publish Tonke Dragt’s masterpiece, The Letter for the King, in English. It’s a knightly adventure about friendship, intrigue, conflict, difficult decisions and long journeys, and it has two of the most appealing characters in children’s literature. Once voted the best Dutch children’s book ever, […]
Hoorah! Publication day!