Astrid Lindgren

"Good literature gives the child a place in the world and the world a place in the child." Astrid Lindgren.

http://www.alma.se/en/ This is the link to the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, administered by the Swedish Arts Council, awarded annually it is the world's largest prize for children's and young adult literature (worth about US $480,000) - authors, illustrators, oral storytellers and those active in reading promotion may be rewarded. NZ's nominees are Margaret Mahy and Joy Cowley.