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I'm chuffed to announce I've been shortlisted for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for Children's Literature 2025, having been sponsored by the University of South Wales.

The list of nominees includes legendary names from 72 countries around the world, and previous laureates include Maurice Sendak, Philip Pullman, Shaun Tan and last year's winner, The Indigenous Literacy Foundation. You can see the complete list by pressing the link below: 

Thanks to books like Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking, I learned how to hold on to the imagination that inspires children to write and draw and tell stories despite growing up. In 1958 Astrid explained it like this:

“A child alone with her book creates, somewhere in the secret room of her soul, her own pictures that surpass everything else. Human beings must have these pictures. The day when children’s imaginations can no longer make them will be a day when all of humanity is impoverished. All of the great things that have happened in the world happened first in someone’s imagination, and the shape of tomorrow depends largely upon the power of the imagination in those who are just now learning to read. This is why children must have books.”