Grubtown Tale takes funny prize

Tuesday, November 10, 2009
By 1stAngel

_46703311_grubtown_226A book about a repulsively smelly man has won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, honouring humorous books for children.

Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky by Philip Ardagh was named the winner in the seven to 14 age group category.

While Sam Lloyd’s Mr Pusskins Best in Show won the six and under age group.

The winners were presented with a cheque for £2,500 and a bottle of wine from Roald Dahl’s personal wine cellar at a London ceremony

Read More…..

  • Facebook
  • StumbleUpon
  • LinkedIn
  • Ping
  • WordPress
  • MySpace
  • Squidoo
  • Twitter
  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

ABOUT THIS COLUMNIST
I live in Manchester, UK and spend my time working for the arts. My actual profession is Artist, but I spend more time now reporting and promoting artists. I also write for Our Gym (co.uk) and Galileo Was Right (com)

You might also like

Whale tale wins non-fiction prize
The story of a man's lifelong obsession with whales wins the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction....
Literary prize judges plant trees
Booker Prize judges plant an avenue of oak trees in a symbolic gesture over felled timber used to produce...
Obama scoops British book prize
The US president fights off Paul O'Grady and Dawn French to take the biography prize at the British Book...
Sandler tickles funny bones in US
Adam Sandler comedy Funny People proves a bigger draw at the US box office than G-Force, last weekend's...
Grab this Widget

Leave a Reply

Featured Artists

Art Prints Art Prints Sell Art Online

1stAngel Testimonials

1stAngel is a fountain of knowledge when it comes to promoting artists or helping other artists promote themselves. She is very kind and easy to work with and and has many resources at her disposal. Scott Hovind

Ads

Second Life
David Lane
Veronica Jackson
Walter
ebooks