Cambridge School of Art students sweep awards in Macmillan Prize for Children's Picture Book Illustration
For the second year in succession, an MA Children's Book Illustration student from Anglia Ruskin University has taken the £1000 1st Prize in this prestigious national competition. This year, however, the 2nd prize of £500 also went to another student on the course, as did five of the thirteen Highly Commended awards.
After Mike Smith's success last year with Edward Hopper and the Carrot Crunch, Gemma Merino's The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water took the award this time with Elys Dolan's Weasels as runner up. The Highly Commended entrants whose works will share wall space with the winners at the forthcoming exhibition are Jemima Sharpe, Vanya Nastanlieva, Harriet Muncaster, Caroline Tye and Tonca Uza. The winning entries will be on show at The Gallery at Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road from 24 - 27 May. This year's judging panel included the million selling author-illustrators Axel Scheffler and Emily Gravett and the Guardian's children's book critic, Julia Eccleshare.
The winning students will shortly be meeting with Macmillan editors to discuss possible publication and the chance to join MA Children's Book Illustration graduates now signed up to Macmillan such as Kazuno Kohara, Mike Smith, Rebecca Patterson, Paula Metcalf and Marta Altes.
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After Mike Smith's success last year with Edward Hopper and the Carrot Crunch, Gemma Merino's The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water took the award this time with Elys Dolan's Weasels as runner up. The Highly Commended entrants whose works will share wall space with the winners at the forthcoming exhibition are Jemima Sharpe, Vanya Nastanlieva, Harriet Muncaster, Caroline Tye and Tonca Uza. The winning entries will be on show at The Gallery at Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road from 24 - 27 May. This year's judging panel included the million selling author-illustrators Axel Scheffler and Emily Gravett and the Guardian's children's book critic, Julia Eccleshare.
The winning students will shortly be meeting with Macmillan editors to discuss possible publication and the chance to join MA Children's Book Illustration graduates now signed up to Macmillan such as Kazuno Kohara, Mike Smith, Rebecca Patterson, Paula Metcalf and Marta Altes.
Please click images to enlarge.
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