
Caroline Carpenter
Children’s Editor and Deputy Features Editor at The Bookseller
Children’s Editor & Deputy Features Editor at @thebookseller • @yabookprize chair • @dtrhradio co-host • @_CreativeAccess alumn • books & Beyoncé 📚💃🏻 she/her
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thebookseller.com | Caroline Carpenter
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thebookseller.com | Caroline Carpenter
Unlike her previous commissions, Clever Crow is non-fiction. “It obviously demanded thorough research and attention to detail, but this is what I really enjoy. I have a frustrated scientist somewhere inside me, I think from my father, who was a Doctor of Sciences.” While researching, she turns to books, the internet and experts. For this project, she contacted the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology and numerous ornithologists across the world.
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thebookseller.com | Caroline Carpenter
The 2025 Carnegie Medal-winning author Margaret McDonald on making her first novel a “force for good” and her determination to represent life in care authentically. Scottish author Margaret McDonald has become the youngest author to win the Carnegie Medal for Writing with her debut novel, Glasgow Boys (Faber). Of the moment her editor told her the news, the 27-year-old said: “I just screamed. My heart leapt into my throat… I was so delighted.
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thebookseller.com | Caroline Carpenter
Children’s Books North Network (CBNN) is launching the first prize for aspiring picture-book writers and illustrators based in the North of England. The Children’s Books North Network Prize will be run in partnership with New Writing North and will be part of the agency’s Northern Writers’ Awards. It is funded by Arts Council England and Manchester Metropolitan University.
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thebookseller.com | Caroline Carpenter
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