AWARD WINNERS THE Library Association's 1965 Carnegie Medal for an
outstanding children's book has been awarded to the Rev. Philip Turner for The Grange at ugh Force (O.U.P., 16s.), a book for older boys which breaks new ground, blazing, one might almost say, a junior Waugh- path. Mr Turner's satirical eye is focused not only on spinster ornithologists, church organists,
* naval officers and policemen, but also on the three schoolboys whose passion for ballistics, oddly enough, helps them to track down and restore to its niche in the village church a long-lost statue.
The Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration goes to Mr Victor Ambrus for his colourful, humorous and lively illustrations for The Three Poor Tailors (O.U.P., 16s.), a folk tale from his native Hungary.
Among runners-up for the Carnegie Medal were Alan Gamer's Elidor (Collins, I3s. 6d.), an unusually vivid and gripping modern fantasy, and Christopher Headington's The Orchestra and its Instruments (Bodley Head, 21s.). a piece of model non-fiction, carefully prepared and beautifully produced.
Mrs Margery Fisher, writer, critic and editor of Growing Point, is the first recipient of the Children's Book Circle Eleanor Farjeon Award for services to children's literature.
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