Posthumous Carnegie for Dowd; Greenaway to Rayner

30 June 2009 Books+Publishing

Siobhan Dowd has been announced as the recipient of the 2009 Carnegie medal for children's literature; and Catherine Rayner the recipient of the Greenaway medal for children's book illustration. Dowd's book Bog Child (Red Fox) was completed three months before her death from cancer, reported the Guardian, and she is the...