Freya Blackwood | Kate Greenaway Winner 2010

The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards– the holy grails of UK children’s publishing – announced their winners last Thursday – with the Carnegie Medal going to Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book (illustrated in dual editions by Dave McKean and Chris Riddell.)

And the Kate Greenaway winner – chosen from the mammoth shortlist of:

• Leon and the Place Between – Grahame Baker-Smith
• Harry & Hopper –  Freya Blackwood
• The Great Paper Caper – Oliver Jeffers
• Millie’s Marvellous Hat – Satoshi Kitamura
• Crazy Hair – Dave McKean
• The Graveyard Book – Chris Riddell
• The Dunderheads – David Roberts
• There are cats in this book – Viviane Schwarz

went to Freya Blackwood’s for her illustration in Harry & Hopper!

The Guardian have a slideshow of Blackwood’s work from the book – including:

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