Cottrell Boyce won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best children's book published in the UK.

Overall, it is about a torn family who are grieving the death of Damian and Anthony's mum (we assume from cancer, but the book isn't clear on that).Conflicts arise throughout their family as the burden becomes to much to bear and secrets are becoming harder to keep. The boys quickly learn some lessons in basic economics: for one thing, how difficult it is to spend a large amount of cash (particularly when you have to keep it a secret). The younger brother (and narrator) Damian tries his best to be excellent and to do good work every day. There are two major plot points: Damian (the protagonist) and Anthony are trying to cope with the recent death of their mother, whilst simultaneously trying to figure out how to spend a rather large sum of money that has come their way. This is a noteworthy book with a truly deep and emotional side to it that perfectly combines fun, adventure, and humor into the sensitive issues.

He has illustrated two World Book Day titles and regularly appears at literary festivals and live events across the UK. The book was not very relatable because the circumstances and topics in this book aren’t very commonly seen in my life personally and I haven’t had any real life experience with any of the event in this book. Having worked with director Danny Boyle on Millions, Danny asked Frank to be part of the team creating the Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics.Millions is about two young brothers who come across millions of pounds and their decisions on what they do with it. Through this novel The brothers are facing a newer, harder challenge everyday and as the saying goes "what goes up must come down" this is the perfect description of the Cunningham brothers journey, The money is giving them everything but it is also losing everything good they had especially when glass eye comes along.

The end also helped me as a reader to see that money isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and that the relationships you make throughout life are much more important. Frank's first book, Millions, won the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2004 and has been shortlisted for a number of awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2004. One of the things I didn't really like was that it took about half the book to get the action started and there were lots of side stories of saints which slowed the pace of the book and distracted me from the storyline. His books have been shortlisted for a multitude of prizes, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Children's Fiction Award (now the Costa Book Award) and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. When a huge bag stuffed with more than 200,000 quid comes flying out of the sky and into Damian’s cardboard “hermitage” (i.Because the story is told from the sweetly naive perspective of Damian, it is filled with many silly but poignant observations. Suddenly finding themselves with a vast amount of cash, the boys have just one glorious, appalling dilemma -- how to spend it in the few days before it becomes worthless. The boys encounter many problems throughout the story and when all the money is gone they both realize that no amount of money will amount to the family they have and love they share for each other.

It’s a fantastic independent book seller that will actually be responsive and select appropriate books for you. Damian, who makes his hermitage by the train tracks, encounters a bag stuffed with millions and millions of pounds, about to be destroyed as Britain (in this book's universe) is about to convert its currency to the euro.We follow Damian and Anthony (brothers) through everything they do with the money before the day when the pound gets changed for the Euro.