Children's Book
Winner:
- Hilary McKay, Saffy's Angel
Shortlist:
- Julie Bertagna, Exodus
- Celia Rees, Sorceress
- Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines
Read more about this topic: 2002 Whitbread Awards
Famous quotes containing the words children and/or book:
“One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work. Whereas in the past children not only saw what their parents did for a living but even shared substantially in the task, many children nowadays have only a vague notion of the nature of the parent’s job, and have had little or no opportunity to observe the parent, or for that matter any other adult, when he is fully engaged in his work.”
—Urie Bronfenbrenner (b. 1917)
“A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land. They must not yield wheat and potatoes, but must themselves be the unconstrained and natural harvest of their author’s lives.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)