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Geraldine McCaughrean, accepting award for Where the World Ends, warned that restricting the language children read risks creating a future underclass who are \u2018easy to manipulate\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carnegie medal<\/a> winner Geraldine McCaughrean has castigated the books industry for dumbing down language in children\u2019s literature, warning that a new focus on \u201caccessible\u201d prose for younger readers will lead to \u201can underclass of citizens with a small but functional vocabulary: easy to manipulate and lacking in the means to reason their way out of subjugation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCaughrean was named winner on Monday of this year\u2019s CILIP Carnegie medal for her historical adventure novel Where the World Ends<\/a>, 30 years after she first took the prize, the UK\u2019s most esteemed children\u2019s literature award. She used her winner\u2019s speech to attack publishers\u2019 fixation on accessible language, which she called \u201ca euphemism for something desperate\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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