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The Nestle Book prize has seen it’s last cover sticker.
The Nestlé book prize, which has been honouring children’s authors for the past 23 years, is being discontinued by its administrator Booktrust and sponsor Nestlé.
According to Katherine Solomon, press officer at Booktrust, the future of the prize has been in discussion for some time and the decision to end the partnership was “mutual and there was no hostility”. It was a “natural time to conclude”, she added, as the literacy charity’s focus moves increasingly into its national book-giving scheme – the Bookstart and Booked Up programmes that provide free books to babies and year seven schoolchildren.
This is, of course, publicity speak for “We can’t even begin to tell you the shit we’ve been through in that board room.”
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January 24th, 2008 at 11:11 am
And Penguin UK silently closes up its Scotland-based office, set up in 2004 for finding talent north of the border. Publishing in the UK is London-centric again. Reported only in the Glasgow Herald that I can see. [see link above]
January 24th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
I’m surprised at this. I mean, Nestle’s always shown how much they care about the children. Like when they gave all that formula to African mothers.