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...that Pigeon Post (pictured), winner of the first ever Carnegie Medal for children's literature, is the only Swallows and Amazons book that does not feature some sort of sailing adventure?
...that Polly Horvath's award-winning 2001 children's novel Everything on a Waffle tells the story of Primrose Squarp, an 11-year old girl whose parents are lost in a typhoon?
... that children's book author and illustrator Christopher Manson uses traditional hand tools to create the pine woodcuts that decorate his books?

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