![]() ![]() Her other popular children’s books include The Peppermint Pig, On the Run and The Witch’s Daughter. "It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right." Child's-eye view "I like writing for children," Bawden once said. Carrie's War has been filmed twice by the BBC and is read by British schoolchildren as part of the national curriculum. Based on her own experience of being sent to a mining town to escape the bombing, it won the Phoenix Award in 1993 from the Children's Literature Association of the U.S. Her best-known children's story was Carrie's War, about two children who are evacuated to Wales during the Second World War. She earned a place on the short list for the Booker Prize in 1987 for her adult novel Circles of Deceit, the story of a middle-aged artist who makes a living copying Old Masters and ponders the deceptive nature of his own relationships. ![]() Author Nina Bawden died Wednesday at age 87. ![]()
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