Past winners include my childhood heroes - Alan Garner, Leon Garfield, Joan Aiken - and contemporary heroes like Mark Haddon, Geraldine McCaughrean and Meg Rosoff. Cottrell-Boyce won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognising it as the year's best children's book published in the U. And then myself and my son, we went to Manod, we went to Blaenau Ffestiniog, which is the real town that Manod is based on and we just looked around and thought well, what pictures connect with this town? When Dylan's family was in a poor financial position, and they were speculating what to do, suddenly a group from the London National Gallery comes in to Dylan's town to keep paintings there to protect them from the London floods.

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So in a film that is 25 x 60 per minute x 90 for the film, so you have do the maths, but it's a lot of pictures. Dylan relates many of his experiences to the Ninja Turtles, which is popular with the children (and especially with a child-like adult named Tom) in Manod. I have read this book over 50 times (this is not even an exaggeration) and can recite probably up to chapter three word-for-word, and I still do not get bored of it ever. If your class is reading the book 'Framed', why not take this opportunity to meet Frank Cottrell Boyce in person at the National Gallery?There's a nice twist in a subplot at the end and it's all very satisfying, but it's the characters that make you read this book. Of course, I'll be stopping at the Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel for a latte and a Crispy Choc Constable while I'm there. Their 2005 collaboration, A Cock and Bull Story, is their last according to Cottrell-Boyce, who asked that his contribution be credited to "Martin Hardy", a pseudonym.

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His family owns the world's only gas station/coffee house—their pies are to die for, but profits are in the hole. Specific National Gallery paintings are woven through the narrative, which centres on 10-year-old Dylan and his family, who live above the village's garage. Frank Cottrell Boyce: I didn't go to the National Gallery as a child, because I don't live in London and I think I had only been once on a school trip, or something like that, before I thought of this story. Manod develops an interest in art and Lester develops an interest in Manod, in the form of the lovely Angharad, the local school teacher.Once a month a painting is sent back to the gallery and each one has a profound effect on a person in Manod helping them to view life in a different way and enabling them to make small but impactful changes which benefit the village. But after I wrote the book, and when I read it for the first time, I realised that I've got a son who would have been about nine when I was writing the book and he had three brothers, but one was a baby and two were much older than he was, so he was surrounded by sisters, so he never had anyone to play football with or to talk in a manly way with, so the character of Dylan, who is the only boy in school, that's sort of my son, but I didn't do it on purpose, it just popped into my head. The time will soon come when Frank Cottrell Boyce's children's titles have passed into the canon of the classics and we won't remember the days when he wasn't producing fabulous books. It transpires that due to some unprecedented flooding in London the National Gallery are relocating their painting to the unused slate quarries of Manod and the presence of the Art changes the lives of the community for the better.