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Siobhan Dowd wins Children’s Book of the Year Award
A novel by the late Siobhan Dowd has been named as the Bisto Children’s Book of the Year by Children’s Books Ireland.
Dowd’s Bog Child, published by David Fickling Books and described by Children’s Books Ireland as “radiant prose that sings of the pain and beauty of the human condition”, beat other well-known authors such as Roddy Doyle (Her Mother’s Face) and Eoin Colfer (Airman) to win the award.
Bog Child, which tells the story of a young boy who discovers a body of child preserved in a bog and begins to dream about its past, was completed just a few months before Dowd died of cancer in August 2007, aged 47.
This is the second year running that Dowd, born to Irish parents and brought up in London, has been posthumously awarded the Bisto Children’s Book of the Year prize. She won the award in 2008 for The London Eye Mystery.
Source: Business & Leadership
Posted: May 31st, 2009
Author: Floresiensis
Categories: Children's Fantasy Books
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