Prize announcements and a week up north

In case you missed it, I announced the winner of the 2009 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize on Thursday.  (I won it last year and was a judge this year).  The winner is Mal Peet's Exposure, which is a great book you should all read.  The party was fun, too.

Welcome to the new commenters (David (who eventually decided it wasn't boring), the Wilks Cousins (who said the right things) and Sara (not for a while yet, Sara, sorry)).  Also, please know I won't generally approve comments that contain s...