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Carnegie Medal for Writing Carnegie Medal (jidō bungaku shō)

Edition 45 (1980)

Children's literatureYoung adultEnglish-language

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Peter Dickinson ぴーたー・でぃきんそん Winner

City of Gold and Other Stories from the Old Testament follows a set of Old Testament retellings that reshape familiar scripture as stories for young readers.

Ancient scripture is recast as living narrative.

188 pages
Old Testamentretellingmythic historyfaith