A delighted and excited sounding Sarah McIntyre tells us that she’s won the Picture Book Award while attending the first ever Children’s Book Festival at Bishop’s Stortford for Morris the Mankiest Monster, which she collaborated with bestselling kid’s author Giles Andreae on.From Sarah’s blog it seems that kids from a number of local schools got to vote on their favourite picture book, so this was the choice of the target readership, which makes it even more special. Sarah was presented with the prize by bestselling children’s author and Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne (who’s delighted many children and their parents with some wonderful books).
(Sarah with Anthony Browne and a picture of her with Anthony created by one of the local teachers, borrowed from Sarah’s blog)
Okay, normally we don’t cover kid’s picture books, but as several of us are big fans of Sarah’s comics works we couldn’t resist peeking at her work on Morris too and it was fab, making both Richard and my own faves of the year. Well done, Sarah, may your wonderfully gross monster delight more kids with his disgusting antics!
February 10th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Aw, you guys rock! Thanks so much! xx