2013 Awards
We are pleased to be able to confirm our winner!
The winner for the 2013 Dudley Children’s Book Awards has now been confirmed!
Fletcher Moss’
The Poison Boy
Dalton Fly is a poison boy, one of the last remaining of Oscar’s Honest Dozen. His job is to taste the food and drink of Highlions’ rich and powerful citizens, to identify any traces of poison that may have been planted by their enemies. It’s a dangerous job but luckily Dalton has developed a refined palette that allows him to identify traces of poison from even the faintest scent of flavour, and has built up his resistance to poisonous substances. A side effect is that his memory doesn’t always work very well, but luckily Sal Sleepwell the mapmaker’s son is on hand to help him remember.
When a job goes badly wrong, Dalton finds himself plunged into sudden danger.
