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John Patrick Green donate Scholastic booty win and sign on seven raw graphic novels for InvestiGators and Agents Of SUIT
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AsLondon Book Fair kicks off , John Patrick Green , creator of theInvestiGatorsandAgents of S.U.I.Tseries of graphic novels for kids won the inauguralScholastic Graphic Novel Prizelast year , deserving £ 1,000 , with InvestiGator ’s All Tide Up as vote on by schoolkids . And , forwards of this class ’s London Book Fair , he has donated that prize to the UK Comics Laureate programme , saying " read strip as a minor got me mad about stories , and literature , and how books were made . It was the beginning of my journey to become a professional comics Godhead . When Kyd around the UK chose my InvestiGators vivid novel to receive the Scholastic Graphic Novel Prize , I want to habituate that to help those kids start on their own creative journeys . The UK Comics Laureate programme does awing piece of work to champion comic , and I ’m honoured that my publishing house and I can aid with that mission . " And his publisher ’s Pan Macmillan ’s constitute a Difference fund matched Green ’s contribution to the programme .
TheInvestiGatorsseries has also been republished with fresh looking for covers , the release ofClass Action , the eighth book in the series , withWild Ghost Chase , book three in the Agents of S.U.I.T series out in April , with Green touring the UK including public event and multiple schooling events .
The UK Comics Laureate is an ambassadorial and educational function for the comics medium and purport to provoke knowingness of the impact comics can have in damage of increase literacy and creativity . late UK Comics Laureates have beenDave Gibbons , Charlie Adlard , Hannah Berry , Stephen L. Hollandand is presently hold byBobby Joseph .
Cate Augustin states " With its wacky wittiness , irresistible wordplay , super - sleuthing character and commercial artwork , InvestiGators is a hit with children of all years . John is so passionate about giving children the luck to discover the joy of comics and lifelike novels , and we are so excited to be working with him to bestow the serial to even more young reader across the UK with our syllabus of year - rhythm activeness . “Alison Ruane , managing music director at Macmillan Children ’s Books , suppose " tec is a belt hit with nestling and it is a thrill to work with our US colleagues and see the sales and popularity rise across the world . As part of our ongoing commitment to the series and graphical - novel publication , we are also pleased to affirm the UK Comics Laureate initiative . "
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