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Bad Man wins children's award
Andy Stanton has been awarded the Red House Children's Book Award overall prize for You're a Bad Man Mr Gum!, his darkly humorous novel for younger readers, reports the Guardian.
It is Stanton's first book, and his follow-up, Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire, has already been longlisted for the Guardian children's book prize.
The Red House awards are the only national book award to be decided entirely by a children's vote. This year 165,000 votes were cast through the Federation of Children's Book Groups. The awards have a record of being the first to spot the future big names in children's writing - it was the first major award to be won by Roald Dahl (1983), Jacqueline Wilson (1996) and JK Rowling (1998).
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