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Julia Eccleshare was born on 1951 in Cambridge, United Kingdom, is a British journalist and critic. Discover Julia Eccleshare's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?
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Julia Eccleshare MBE (born 1951) is a British journalist and writer on the subject of children's books.
The annual exhibition and annotated list had been established circa 1970 by the National Book League (later renamed Booktrust) and had missed one year before its 1985 resumption.
Eccleshare was children's book editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1978.
She served as non-fiction and picture book editor at Penguin Books children's imprint Puffin Books from 1978 to 1980, and as fiction editor at Hamish Hamilton children's books from 1980 to 1984, before returning to freelance book reviewing.
She selected hundreds of books for Children's Books of the Year from 1985 to 1993.
She has been Children's Books editor for The Guardian newspaper for more than ten years, at least from 2000.
She is also an editorial contributor and advisor for the website Love Reading 4 Kids.
Eccleshare was born in Cambridge and grew up in North London, the third of four children of Colin Eccleshare, a publisher with Cambridge University Press, and Liz, a history teacher.
In 2000 she co-founded the Branford Boase Award for an outstanding novel for young people by a first-time writer, and continues to chair its panel of judges.
At least from 2000 to 2012, she chairs the panel of three children's writers who judge the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
In 2000 she won the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of "her outstanding contribution to children's books".
Eccleshare is currently children's books editor for The Guardian newspaper, and also regularly appears on BBC Radio 4's Open Book and Front Row programmes.
Eccleshare has also served on many book award panels including the Whitbread Children's Book Award in 2001, and chaired the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize panel from 2001 to its conclusion in 2007.
In 2014 she was appointed Head of Policy and Advocacy for Public Lending Right.
She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to children's literature.
She was an awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt, Hons) by the University of Worcester in 2014.
She is married and has four children, and lives in London.
Eccleshare covered the Harry Potter series for Continuum (Contemporary classics of children's literature) when four volumes were in print.
Following an introduction on "major success in children's books", Enid Blyton and others, she interpreted the Potter stories (part 2) and the Potter phenomenon including its impact on writing for children (parts 3–5).
