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Return To Ribblestrop Wins Children's Book Prize

Posted at 10:12PM Saturday 12 Nov 2011

Author Andy Mulligan has won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for his novel Return To Ribblestrop, set in a dilapidated boarding school.

The book is the second in a planned trilogy, and finds the school invaded by a truck load of circus animals.

Judges said the story had "just the right combination of warmth, originality and, above all, hilarity to give it the edge".

Mulligan's win ranks him alongside Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson.

Other novelists to win the award include Anne Fine, Meg Rosoff and Patrick Ness.

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