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    IN THE FRAME

    Apr 07, 2022 6 minutes

    A big thank you and congratulations to everyone who entered the Picture Book Prize 2021. To even write, finish and submit a story is a massive achievement.

    This year we had an amazing 286 entries. Creating the longlist and shortlist was very difficult – a few times, stories were moved up and down, depending on our discussions. There were so many wonderful titles, but eventually we narrowed it down to a longlist, a shortlist, and finally our winning three.

    Huge congratulations to our winners. Read on to find out more about the top three entries and the writers who wrote them.

    Third: Jonathan Sellars, Fish Can’t Climb Trees

    Book extract:

    “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” Albert Einstein

    The fish, the chimp, the sloth, and the bat,
    The goat, the ant, the slug, and the cat,
    The snake, the duck, the bee, and the frog,
    The mouse, the hare, the flea,

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