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29/09/2006
Philip Reeve wins Children's book prize
Philip Reeve has won the 2006 Guardian Children's Fiction prize.
The bestselling British children's author and illustrator was given the £1,500 award for his latest book, A Darkling Plain, the fourth instalment in his Hungry Cities quartet.
Mortal Engines, the first book in the series, won the Nestle Smarties Book Prize Gold Award in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Book Award.
The books follow the lives of two young adventurers in a lawless post-apocalyptic world, fifteen-year old orphan Tom Natsworthy and his disfigured companion Hester Shaw.
A Darkling Plain was chosen from a shortlist of four, including Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce, Blown Away by Patrick Cave and Frances Hardinge's Fly By Night.
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