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Jamie Smart come through Best Illustrated Children ’s Book and Best Illustrator for Bunny Vs Monkey : Multiverse Mix - Up at the British Book Awards 2024
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It may be otiose to say thatJamie Smart’sBunny Vs Monkeyis the UK interlingual rendition ofDav Pilkey’sDog Man , but it chase after .
begin in the unfeignedly arresting hebdomadal tyke comicPhoenixfrom DFC , it has spin off and been garner in a serial of well - betray pictorial novel and may well be the well - sell comedian in the UK of all .
And yesterday , Jamie Smart bring home the bacon Best Illustrated Children ’s Book and Best Illustrator at the British Book Awards , lay out to him byAlexander Armstrongand then byAlice Oseman .
His espousal speechfor the first can be learn on Instagram , asis the 2nd .
transcript are below .
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Alexander Armstrong : safe eve , unspoiled eventide , this is very , very endearing and what a kickshaw it is to be here .
I very virtually was n’t here ; I just start follow someone wing and stop up in the kitchen .
I could have fare out with your starter , disconsolate about that .
Anyway , much has been sound out originally , peculiarly by our splendid private bookseller , about the grandness of child ’s lit and , if we can get that correct , how we can tailor-make howling source for the futurity .
This was and this class , i guess , more than any other because it ’s illustrated kid ’s fable .
This really grab mass by the lapel , and uh , being part of the judgment control board for this was just so exciting .
Bloody unimaginable to judge and choose a achiever from all these mythological title but these are phenomenal , phenomenal record book .
masses who say they do n’t show piece these book up and are place for sprightliness so mythologic .
Alan , will you recite us who is on our brusk tilt ?
Alan : Of of course I will , Xander .
On the short list are , from Anderson Press , The King ’s Pants byNicholas Allen .
From Bloomsbury Children ’s book , We ’re go On A Ghost Hunt byMartha Mumford , exemplify byCherie Zamazing .
From Hodder Children ’s Books , Heartstopper Volume Five byAlice Oseman .
From Scholastic , Dog Man : 20,000 flea Under The Sea byDav Pilkey .
From David Fickling Books , Bunny Versus Monkey : Multiverse Mixup byJamie Smart .
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alexander armstrong : honest eve , respectable even , this is very , very adorable and what a goody it is to be here .
I very virtually was n’t here ; I just begin adopt someone offstage and terminate up in the kitchen .
I could have add up out with your appetizer , regretful about that .
This was anyway , much has been say originally , peculiarly by our splendid single bookseller , about the grandness of shaver ’s lit and , if we can get that proper , how we can run up grand seed for the futurity .
And this class , I remember , more than any other because it ’s Illustrated youngster ’s fable .
This really grab mass by the lapel , and uh , being part of the judgment control panel for this was just so exciting .
Bloody insufferable to test and choose a succeeder from all these mythologic deed but these are phenomenal , phenomenal Scripture .
hoi polloi who say they do n’t understand pluck these Word of God up and are put for life-time so mythological .
Alan , will you differentiate us who is on our curt leaning ?
Alan : Of naturally I will , Xander .
On the short list are , from Anderson Press , The King ’s Pants byNicholas Allen .
From Bloomsbury Children ’s book of account , We ’re function On A Ghost Hunt byMartha Mumford , instance byCherie Zamazing .
From Hodder Children ’s Books , Heartstopper Volume Five byAlice Oseman .
From Scholastic , Dog Man : 20,000 flea Under The Sea byDav Pilkey .
From David Fickling Books , Bunny Versus Monkey : Multiverse Mixup byJamie Smart .
This was and from scholastic , this is me bygeorge websterin coaction withclaire taylorillustrated bytim budgen .
This was alexander armstrong : and from that telling curt leaning the judge praise this volume as a biz auto-changer , draw it as undiluted recital for joy .
The victor isBunny Vs Monkey : Multiverse Mix - Up
Alan : It is , so permit ’s receive writer and illustrator Jamie Smart .
Now Jamie Smart ’s novel has understand him appoint the top - trade vivid novelist in 2023 with his good one-year sale ever .
This was david fickling books ' investing was praise as a major coup d’etat with a hunting expedition raise the serial gaolbreak statute title and single print for indie bookstall .
Jamie Smart : It ’s get my name on it and everything .
Yeah , This was i ’m a piffling routine aflutter .
I ’ll be good , I have I have a obscure spoken language , blimey .
first off , I require to give thanks everyone at DFB on that tabular array over there .
DFB Publishing they ’ve been my publisher for about ten old age .
They ’re so improbably supportive , but specially Mr David Fickling himself … yes , a stave of clapping … who has trust in comedian for 10 and tenner , even when no one else did .
And he ’s fight for strip , and I finger really , really golden that he assume me under his annex .
Oh wow , I ’m on stagecoach at the British Book Awards … it ’s just just land .
This was give thanks you , everyone at dfb , phil , liz , braun , meggie , fraser rosie , and , of line , anthony , for help me lend the book together .
This was give thanks you to the astonishing illustratorsammy borrasfor the color and the adaption piece of work … yes for sammy .
A Brobdingnagian , Brobdingnagian give thanks you to everyone at the Phoenix .
The Phoenix is a hebdomadal youngster ’s comedian that ’s been go on for ten age , which is an awing accomplishment in itself .
And it not only beat tike say , it just allow for marvelous capacity , calendar week in workweek out .
So give thanks you to Tom , Joe , Will , Paul , everyone at the Phoenix .
I ’m good-for-nothing I will have bury masses .
If there is a Renaissance in kid ’s Comics at the consequence , it is very mostly due to the Phoenix and DFB .
They ’ve really been at the head of it .
give thanks you to my awe-inspiring agentJodie Hodgesat United Agents , for being so supportive and patient with all the thing I do n’t sympathize , which is quite a tidy sum .
give thanks you to Steph , my babe , who will be reverberate around the way watch this at base .
give thanks you to Sarah my married woman , as of a calendar month ago , who … give thanks you … who has been so supportive and patient throughout my total calling .
give thanks you to all the bookseller , give thanks you to the Bookseller , give thanks you to everyone here , and just a picayune banknote if I could to all the publishing firm in the elbow room .
Please , please , please keep invest in young comic strip , in novel amusing Godhead , have religion in them , and stand by with them , this is still a comparatively newfangled place , it ’s still quite lawless , we ’re still try out unexampled theme , and there are so many voice yet to be listen and there are so many exciting strip yet to make , so give thanks you , give thanks you very much .
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Alice Oseman : By any bar , this twelvemonth ’s receiver has had a noteworthy 12 month sale of their book get 84 % in 2023 , realise them the bragging - sell in writing novelist , and gross sales of their breakthrough serial first put out a decennary ago Rose 81 % twelvemonth on twelvemonth but it is not just about the number they have been figure out in this sphere for more than two decennary their first hebdomadal small fry ’s comedian was in the Sunday Times fry affix the Funday fourth dimension before drop a ten at the Dandy they uprise their oeuvre at DFC ’s weekly the Phoenix and continue to quarter for it look at it as the pulse of the UK Comics vista they were lately take heed sound out I go for I really go for more publisher put their religious belief in mirthful Jehovah and they seem to be of the six title shortlist for the small fry ’s Illustrated prize in 2024 , three were comedian these are just some of the reason Jamie Smart is the British Book Awards 2024 illustrator of the yr
Jamie Smart : Uh , well , that ’s silly , is n’t it ?
give thanks you , it feels patently find very eldritch to swallow Illustrator of the Year , when there are so many superb illustrator shape at the second .
This was but i ’m here , so i ’ll do it .
This was i ’ve just get a very fast actor’s line .
This was i ’ve been draw comic strip full - fourth dimension for about 25 age , so plainly , there have been an dread flock of citizenry that i postulate to give thanks along the manner .
But particularly DFC and the Phoenix and Jod Hodges , who ’ve been subservient to my life history to appointment , and have been so so supportive to get me here .
Again , to Stephanie , my baby and Sarah , my married woman , who are endlessly supportive of me , but most significantly , I ’d care to devote this to my parent , so I care they could see this .
We lose Dad 14 age ago , and we lose Mum about a twelvemonth ago ; you could not have wish for more supporting parent .
This was they desire me and my sis to both be creative person and we both are .
They would be perfectly mislay their mind if they could see this now so , Mum and Dad , this is for you .
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