{"id":69,"date":"2009-10-21T16:56:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T15:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/?p=69"},"modified":"2016-03-12T13:45:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T13:45:03","slug":"macmillan-prize-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/macmillan-prize-2009","title":{"rendered":"Macmillan Prize 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Macmillan Prize has become an extremely well recognised and significant award for artists interested in working for picture books. It is one of the least visible but most important of the awards for work in children\u2019s books industry.<\/p>\n<p>This year the standard of entries was very high and and we are proud to announce that illustrations submitted by our head illustrator Aleksei were chosen as Highly Commended alongside work from 15 other illustrators&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/small_imagine2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2647\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/macmillan_bitskoff_2009_1.jpg\" alt=\"Macmillan Bitskoff Illustration\" width=\"759\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/macmillan_bitskoff_2009_1.jpg 759w, https:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/macmillan_bitskoff_2009_1-400x315.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/> <\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2646\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/macmillan_bitskoff_2009_2.jpg\" alt=\"Macmillan Bitskoff Illustration\" width=\"759\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/macmillan_bitskoff_2009_2.jpg 759w, https:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/macmillan_bitskoff_2009_2-400x315.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/small_imagine31.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Macmillan Prize has become an extremely well recognised and significant award for artists interested in working for picture books. It is one of the least visible but most important of the awards for work in children\u2019s books industry. This year the standard of entries was very high and and we are proud to announce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"https:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ickypen.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}