Kate Saunders wins the Costa children's book award with Five Children On The Western Front

Newsflash! Sequel to E Nesbit’s Five Children and It, set on the eve of the first world war, takes the Costa children’s prize

Congratulations to Kate Saunders on winning the much coveted Costa children’s book award for her wonderful book Five Children on the Western Front.

Kate’s award-winning book takes up the story of E Nesbit’s classic Five Children and It. It’s 10 years on and the first world war has just begun when the last sand fairy on earth, the Psammead, comes back to find the older children all grown up and experiencing the full impact of the first world war.

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