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Every book you buy through the guardian bookshop helps to support independent journalism. Macmillan children s books is sorry to announce that submissions for the 2020 macmillan prize for illustration the mac prize will be postponed due to the covid19 situation. Review one of the guardian childrens fiction prize 2016 longlisted books as an individual or a school book group and be in with a chance of winning books, national book tokens and an invite to. The competition is open to children between the ages of 4 and 15.
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