For the second year running, two graduates have been shortlisted for the Booktrust Early Years Awards in the Best Emerging Illustrator category. Ellie Sandall, who completed the course in 2007, is shortlisted for her highly successful picturebook, Birdsong (Egmont UK, 2010) and Kazuno Kohara, for her second book with MacMillan UK, Jack Frost. Kazuno's book is a follow-up to the internationally acclaimed The Haunted House, which was one of the New York Times' Top Ten Picturebooks in 2009.

The awards ceremony takes place at BAFTA on London's Piccadilly in September.

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