{"id":275,"date":"2012-11-27T15:11:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/?p=275"},"modified":"2013-06-25T13:20:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T13:20:16","slug":"arb-launches-new-book-prize-the-little-rebels-children%e2%80%99s-book-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"ARB launches new book prize: The Little Rebels Children\u2019s Book Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year the ARB set up the Bread &amp; Roses Award for Radical Publishing, administered by Housmans Bookshop. This independent prize for adult non-fiction literature ran for the 1st time in 2011, with the prize awarded in May 2012. The award is being run again this year \u2013 for more information, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bread-and-roses.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.bread-and-roses.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bread and Roses prize is going ahead again this year alongside a new, parallel, radical fiction children\u2019s book prize: The Little Rebels Children\u2019s Book Award. The prize will be administered by Letterbox Library on behalf of the ARB.\u00a0The new Little Rebels Award is designed to recognise a rich tradition of radical publishing for children in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>For this first year, the award will be restricted to fiction targeted at children aged 0-12. \u2018Radical\u2019 is defined widely to include books informed by inclusive\/anti-discriminatory concerns or those which promote social equality or social justice.<\/p>\n<p>Guest judges for the 2012 Little Rebels Award will be children\u2019s author, Elizabeth Laird and Bookstart co-founder and editor, Wendy Cooling (see Guest Judges).<\/p>\n<p>Prizes for both the Little Rebels and the Bread and Roses Awards will be presented at the ARB&#8217;s new, radical bookfair at Conway Hall, London, on May 11th 2013.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please visit the\u00a0Little Rebels website:<a href=\"http:\/\/littlerebelsaward.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/littlerebelsaward.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year the ARB set up the Bread &amp; Roses Award for Radical Publishing, administered by Housmans Bookshop. This independent prize for adult non-fiction literature ran for the 1st time in 2011, with the prize awarded in May 2012. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/?p=275\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arb-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}