The UK’s most prestigious prize for children’s books goes to the US ambassador for young people’s literature, while Canadian Sydney Smith takes Kate Greenaway medal for illustration
Photograph: Adedayo Kosoko/PAPhotograph: Adedayo Kosoko/PAAmerican author Jason Reynolds has won the UK’s top children’s books prize, the, for his “breathtakingly gripping” stories about children on their walk home from school, Look Both Ways.Reynolds, a poet and author who is currently the US national ambassador for young people’s literature, was chosen ahead of shortlisted authors including former winner Elizabeth Acevedo to take the prize.
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