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Anthony Browne announced as the sixth Children’s Laureate 9th June 2009

Anthony Browne was announced as the sixth Children's Laureate at a ceremony in London on 9th June.

He said: “I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books, and the reading of both pictures and words. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.”

Andrew Motion, chair of the selection committee, presenting Anthony Browne with the Children’s Laureate Medal and a bursary of £15,000 said:

“Anthony Browne is an absolutely distinctive and extraordinarily skilful artist - someone whose work entrances children, and has influenced an entire generation of illustrators. His pictures and stories give deep and immediate pleasures, while also insisting that we - children and adults - return to them - and when we return, we have a gradually-expanding sense of discovery. It is a great pleasure to be able to recognise the achievement of Anthony's work by celebrating his appointment as Children's Laureate.”

Anthony will be the Children’s Laureate for the next two years (2009-2011).

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