Award Winners All

There are some books that really break the mould - and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is one of them. It's the kind of book that makes you laugh and fills you with feelings of the deepest sadness at the same time. A wonderful book for young adults, and older of course. It has won The Whitbread Book of the Year 2003, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2003 and the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2003.

When I first encountered the writing of David Almond (with Skellig), there was that same sense that here is a writer with a unique way of telling a story. I have enjoyed each of his subsequent books and particularly enjoyed Kit's Wilderness and his latest, The Fire Eaters. Both are set in the north-east of England and evoke for me the warmth of the people that I lived among for a decade. But you don't have to have lived there to realise that Almond is particularly gifted at bringing out the subtleties of emotional life of his characters. The Fire Eaters has won the Smarties Prize 2003 in the 9-11 year old category and is also the Whitbread Children's Book award winner for 2003.

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