Children's Book
Winner:
- Jamila Gavin, Coram Boy
Shortlist:
- David Almond, Heaven Eyes
- Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Seeing Stone
- Adéle Geras, Troy
Read more about this topic: 2000 Whitbread Awards
Famous quotes containing the words children and/or book:
“There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it—benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their “good” subjects and punishment to their “bad” ones, who are amused at the “cleverness” of children and annoyed by their “stupidities.””
—Viola Spolin (b. 1911)
“A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)