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A Valley Grows Up
A Valley Grows Up is a history book for children, written and illustrated by Edward Osmond and published by Oxford University Press in 1953. It features an imaginary English valley over the course of seven thousand years, from 5000 BCE to 1900. Osmond won the annual Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. In more than seventy years only a handful of nonfiction books have been so honoured.
Description.
Ten full-colour double-page paintings and
dates"
- Mae Virginia Cowdery, African American poet (suicide, born 1909)
- Gordon Hall Gerould, American philologist (born 1877)
- Eirik Vandvik, Norwegian classicist and translator (born 1904)
- Tan Khoen Swie, Indonesian publisher (year of birth uncertain)
Awards.
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Edward Osmond, "A Valley Grows Up"
- Christopher Award: Marie Killilea, "Karen"
- Governor General's Award for Poetry or Drama: Douglas