"Strong showing for UK authors on Astrid Lindgren award shortlist."

"Strong showing for UK authors on Astrid Lindgren award shortlist." The Guardian (U.K.), 18 October 2011. “Established in honour of the Pippi Longstocking author following her death in 2002, aged 94, the prize looks to reward "people and organisations who work in her tradition and safeguard democratic values". So Zambia's Lubuto Library Project, which creates libraries for Africa's street children, is up against The Very Hungry Caterpillar's creator Eric Carle….The winner, chosen by a 12-member jury of international children's literature experts, will be announced on 20 March in Lindgren's birthplace of Vimmerby in Sweden. They will join previous laureates including Maurice Sendak and Philip Pullman.”