Great to see a promotional opportunity being turned back to bite Nestle.
Karleen Gribble
Australia
http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/author/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003685452
Author Refuses Nestlé Prize Check 
December 14, 2007
By Joel Rickett

SOURCE:The Bookseller 

Author Sean Taylor has refused to accept his prize money after winning the Nestlé Children's Book Prize 2007. Taylor's picture book When A Monster is Born, illustrated by Nick Sharratt, took the Gold Award in the under-fives category. But Taylor said he did not feel able to accept his half of the £2,500 prize cash, citing "questions surrounding Nestlé's marketing of breast-milk substitutes."

At Wednesday's ceremony, the author accepted the award-voted for by thousands of schoolchildren across the U.K.-but refused the check. He said: "When a Monster is Born is a book that has something to do with choices. Some of these choices seem to be life-giving and some of them seem to take life away. I hope that I have made a life-giving choice. I have decided to refuse this check and ask that it goes back where it came from."


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