Headteacher wins New Children’s Author Prize

Emma Cox, a headteacher from Devon, has won this year’s New Children’s Author Prize, organised by the National Literacy Trust and Bloomsbury. Malkin Moonlight, chosen from a shortlist of six books, is about a cat who is looking for his friend Roux. He comes across a group of cats at a recycling centre and is soon involved in their fight with a gang of villainous cats who live in the nearby wasteland. Rebecca McNally, publishing director at Bloomsbury Children’s and one of the judges, said Cox’s book has “real warmth, humour and a strong sense of jeopardy”. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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