Carnegie Medal Bog Child wins the Carnegie Award
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The book follows an archaeological dig against a backdrop of the unrest and IRA Hunger Strikers. It weaves both of the stories into a fantastic tale of human life and death. A worthy winner of this great prize. Sadly Siobhan is no longer with us having died of Breast Cancer in 2007. She was a fantastic talent and will be sorely missed. She left us however with 4 superb books. A Pure Swift Cry, The London Eye Mystery, Bog Child and Solace of the Road. All are available in the library. Bog Child, of cause, is also on the Sheffield Children's Book List for 2009.
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Siobhan Dowd's fantastic novel set in 1980's Northern Ireland has won the coveted Carnegie Medal.
"if a child can read, they can think,
if a child can think they are free"
Siobhan Dowd (1960-2007)
Carnegie Medal 2009
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It would be much easier to tell this story if it were all about a chaste and perfect love between Two Children Against the World at an Extreme Time in History. But let's face it, that would be crap. Daisy is sent from New York to England to spend a summer with cousins she has never met. They are Isaac, Edmond, Osbert and Piper. And two dogs and a goat. She's never met anyone quite like them before - and, as a dreamy English summer progresses, Daisy finds herself caught in a timeless bubble. It seems like the perfect summer. But their lives are about to explode. Falling in love is just the start of it. War breaks out - a war none of them understands, or really cares about, until it lands on their doorstep. The family is separated. The perfect summer is blown apart. Daisy's life is changed forever - and the world is too.
