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Controversial Australian Prize Winner

A FORMER Children's Book Council president [Kate Colley] has criticised a decision to award one of Australia's most prestigious prizes or children's literature to a book containing swearing and violent images.
Requiem for a Beast today won the Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year prize.

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