Literary Significance and Reception
The Library Association recognised The God Beneath The Sea for both of its annual children's book awards, the Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal. Garfield and Blishen won the Carnegie Medal, for the year's best children's book by a British subject. Keeping was a commended runner up for the companion Greenaway Medal, a distinction retired after 2002.
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