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  • Awarded by the Children's Literature Association 'for the most outstanding book for children published twenty years earlier which did not receive a major award at the time of publication ." (CLA website: http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/chla/)

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2003

winner y separately published work icon The Long Night Watch Ivan Southall , London : Methuen Children's Books , 1983 Z225187 1983 single work children's fiction children's

'During World War II, a sixteen-year-old patrols a deserted South Pacific island each night as he and other members of an Australian religious cult await the fiery end of the Earth and their deliverance.' (Publication summary)

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