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- ↑ (Carnegie Winner 1964) Archived 2009-06-08 at the Wayback Machine . Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-08-16.
- ↑ Marcus Crouch, The Nesbit Tradition: The Children's Novel in England 1945–1970, Ernest Benn, 1972, pp. 155–56.
- ↑ "Sheena Porter" Archived 2009-02-28 at the Wayback Machine . Updated 14 September 2003. Literary Heritage: West Midlands (literaryheritage.org.uk). Shropshire County Council. Digital Midlands.
