The Guardian view on Patrice Lawrence: a children’s laureate for our times | Editorial

The author of the bestselling young-adult novel Orangeboy is ideally suited to address the crisis of teenage masculinity and readingIn 2017 there was outrage when the Carnegie medal, the UK’s oldest and most prestigious children’s literature prize, had no minority… The author of the bestselling young-adult novel Orangeboy is ideally suited to address the crisis of teenage masculinity and readingIn 2017 there was outrage when the Carnegie medal, the UK’s oldest and most prestigious children’s literature prize, had no minority…