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Despite the traumatic inspiration behind Shadow Forest, the novel was singled out for praise from the judges for its humour.
According to Rhyl, 10, from Wales, who was one of the Blue Peter judges, "Shadow Forest was my favourite book.
Shadow Forest is set in Norway and follows the story of Samuel Blink and his sister Martha.
Matt Haig's first children's book, Shadow Forest, won the Nestle/Smarties Prize and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award.
Child judges have selected Matt Haig's "Shadow Forest" as both Book of the Year and Book I Couldn't Put Down at the U.K.'s Blue Peter Book Awards.
Matt Haig's literary scope is uncommonly wide, ranging from darkly brilliant books for younger children – the twisted Dahlian fable Shadow Forest is a gem – to accessible but still risk-taking fiction for adults.
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The drab seaside town is "steeped in estuary woe"; the Curran family house "rose out of the dark forest shadow of its grounds as though it had prevailed over it", seeming like "a place for the hooded lantern, the corpse floating in the shallows".
He had pictured shadowed forests of staves, singing birds there: splendor.
Izetta Henderson (top middle), a fashion buyer and designer, said it was refreshing to see so much enterprise in the shadow of Forest City, the monolithic apartment towers.
Its rudimentary structure is remarkably basic: the player's task is to guide an anonymous and largely silhouetted boy through a shadow-drenched forest and beyond, towards some unspoken end to which the antihero protagonist is committed.
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