GoF "not even considered" for 2000 Whitbread prize

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No: HPFGUIDX 5782

In the UK, The Guardian reports that JKR has missed out on this 
year's Whitbread book awards.  Last year, she won the Children's 
category with PoA, but missed out on the overall prize.  

IMO, the article is written from a rather negative perspective, which 
seems to hint that GoF can't be up to much if it wasn't at least 
shortlisted for the Whitbread prize.  It also emphasises the "dark 
nature" of three of the four nominees in the Children's category, 
which (a) could be implying that GoF wasn't excluded because of its 
supposed darker content and (b) indicates that the reporter and 
Whitbread judges considered GoF to be a children's book.

Here's the full article:

http://www.booksunlimited.co.uk/whitbread2000/story/0,6194,397635,00.h
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Neil