A collaborative publication by Anglia Ruskin's MA Children's Book Illustration Course Leader Professor Martin Salisbury and Dr Morag Styles of the University of Cambridge has been selected for the shortlist of the UKLA Academic Book Awards 2013.

Children's Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling (published by Laurence King, 2010) will now vie with 7 other publications for the overall award, with the winner being announced at the UKLA International Conference on July 6 2013 at Liverpool Hope University.

The UKLA Academic Book Award is awarded every two years to a UK academic text about the teaching of English that best fulfils the following criteria:

• inspires the teaching of literacy
• will be a lasting and rich resource for teachers, teacher educators and students
• is accessibly written
• makes a distinctive contribution to literacy education
• is based on sound literacy research
• encourages teachers to be reflective, innovative and creative
• is relevant to classroom practice
• can be for any/all key stages from early years to KS4

Children's Picturebooks has already achieved the notable distinction of climbing to the top of Amazon.com's Graphic Design bestseller list.

We wish Martin and Morag all the best for the awards ceremony in July.

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