{"id":413,"date":"2011-06-29T13:48:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T13:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/29\/frances-lincoln-diverse-voices-childrens-book-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-07-02T19:56:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T19:56:17","slug":"frances-lincoln-diverse-voices-childrens-book-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/29\/frances-lincoln-diverse-voices-childrens-book-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices<br>Children’s Book Award 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Helen Limon has won the 2011 Frances Lincoln <\/a> Diverse Voices Children's Book Award to Helen Limon <\/a> for Om Shanti, Babe<\/em>, a story about growing up, family and friendships that the judges described as '...fabulous . . . laugh-out-loud funny'.<\/p>\n

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\nThe tale of teenage Cassia, who is forced to drop her preconceived ideas when she joins her mother on a business trip to south India, takes in fair trade and environmental issues alongside Cassia's struggles to accept her mother's new Indian partner, her spiky tussles with fashion-mad friend-to-be Priyanka and her crushes on pop star Jonny Gold and Dev, a boy she meets on a train.<\/p>\n

Pictured: Helen Limon (2011 winner) Tom Avery (2010 winner \u2013 Too Much Trouble is published today) and Karon Alderman (2011 runner up)<\/em><\/p>\n

The Award, was founded jointly by Frances Lincoln Limited <\/a> and Seven Stories<\/a>, the national centre for children's books, in memory of Frances Lincoln (1945-2001) to encourage and promote diversity in children's fiction.<\/p>\n

The prize of \u00a31,500 plus the option for Janetta Otter-Barry at Frances Lincoln Children's Books to publish the novel is awarded to the best manuscript for eight to 12-year-olds that celebrates diversity in the widest possible sense.<\/p>\n

Australian author Michelle Richardson received a Special Mention for Tek<\/em>, a book about a young girl from the Aboriginal Australian Murrinh-Patha<\/a> community who can communicate with the
\nngepan, the spirits of the dead.<\/p>\n

Tom Avery, was the winner of the award in 2010 also celebrated the publication on June 23rd of Too Much Trouble<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sue Martin: Dolphin Booksellers the best in children's books always on line.<\/em><\/p>\n
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Helen Limon has won the 2011 Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children's Book Award to Helen Limon for Om Shanti, Babe, a story about growing up, family and friendships that the judges described as '...fabulous . . . laugh-out-loud funny'. The tale of teenage Cassia, who is forced to drop her preconceived ideas when she joins ...continue reading \"Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices<br>Children’s Book Award 2011\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
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