Phil’s picture BOY , illustrated by Shane Devries and published by Scholastic Press, has been announced as the winner of the 2017 Children’s Peace Literature Award.
Dr Winefield, the convenor of the judging panel, said that through the biennial award, Psychologists for Peace aims to recognise authors who promote peaceful resolution of conflict in their books, and to encourage and publicise these books so that children have peaceful models on which to base their own behaviour.
Phil Cummings 