" The worst: "The worst would have to be Smarties.
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I drew its screen, and stuck on Smarties for the buttons.
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It's sexy, stylish fun, and Vikander (naturally) plays the smartest of the smarties.
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The New Jersey-based confectionery sells over two billion Smarties rolls per year.
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The "Mad Money" host chats with top brass of Columbia Sportswear, Smarties and Eurazeo.
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Smarties call themselves "America's favorite candy roll," which is a bit of a fudge.
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Smarties will start production for Halloween batches in spring, which are then shipped through summer.
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DiNozzo, a wiseacre, was often the least smart person in a room full of smarties.
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" He added, "And so that was our magic word of the day, so thank you, Smarties.
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Edward Dee celebrated his 95th birthday in October, near the 70th anniversary of the Smarties company founding.
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I pick up basil, tomato, spaghetti, strawberries, rice cakes, and a box of Smarties to snack on later.
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So as soon as the kids came onto the set, I immediately just shouted out, 'Who likes Smarties?
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On Wednesday the Smarties Candy Co. celebrates its 70th anniversary at its manufacturing headquarters in Union, New Jersey.
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Such informed modesty, as anybody who's been to a party of smarties can tell you, is a rare gift.
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"One little girl was upset but being comforted by the promise of Peppa Pig and Smarties later," she said.
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Smarties is currently led by Dee's granddaughters: sisters Liz Dee and Jessica Dee Sawyer, and their cousin Sarah Dee.
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That means in November, retailers begin ordering from Smarties to prepare for the next year's trick-or-treating event.
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Sarah and Jessica also each have two kids under the age of 5 who often frequent the Smarties headquarters.
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The typical bucket contains gloves, bandages, Smarties candy, and kitty litter, which can be used as a makeshift toilet.
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"I embrace my masculine and feminine sides," Mr. Grey said over Smarties and a chicken pie at a cafe.
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The maker of KitKat, Smarties and Nespresso has struggled in recent years to keep up with changing consumer tastes.
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Smarties "The perfect combination of Aspirin and Tums," he remarked after dramatically spitting the candy all over the floor. 2.
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By the 2010s, however, the three came back from their various career paths to Smarties to serve as executive presidents.
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Imaginaria's "Anything is Possible" appears to have a marching anthem to contextualize pre-made demo reels, including a British Smarties commercial.
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You know the type, half a cup down and bouncing off the walls like a five-year-old on blue Smarties.
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Brabeck-Letmathe shrugged off concerns about a health and nutrition-focused Nestle retaining sugar-laden labels such as KitKat, Nesquik and Smarties.
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They're looking for more fat-free candy — gluten-free, peanut-free, vegan, dairy-free — and Smarties can tick all of those boxes.
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These days, the company has two factories in Union, New Jersey, and Newmarket, Ontario, which produce over 53 billion Smarties rolls every year.
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Smarties was founded in 1949 by Edward Dee, who was from a candy-making family in London that settled in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
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I pick up stuff that I ordered from Amazon last week (face brush thing, a new face scrub, face lotion, and Canadian Nestle Smarties).
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As such, it might be a disservice to mediocre things everywhere — grape juice, Smarties, the color beige — to characterize the Eagles in those terms.
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Each color suggests some flavor, and those combinations aren't just culturally dependent—they're also personally subjective, as shown by a 2008 study on orange Smarties.
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Smarties also ends its fiscal year on Halloween and hosts a company-wide lunch around that time to celebrate the end of its busy season.
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Jane, although mildly perplexed, surprisingly takes the news (and the Smarties) in stride, letting her father know that she isn't mad, just a little sad.
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Halloween has long since expanded from the childhood holiday of begging for Milky Ways and Smarties to include the adult celebration of costumed role-playing.
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Harry Potter did fine when it first emerged in the UK 20 years ago, winning a Smarties Award and garnering respectable sales for its publisher, Bloomsbury.
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It doesn't matter if it's full of Reese's pumpkins or Smarties — if there's a candy bowl in an office, people are going to take that candy.
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Smarties Candy isn't looking to sell the company anytime soon but it might be open to acquiring others, Co-president Liz Dee told CNBC on Friday.
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A classmate of mine once went through a "baking" phase, and I ate a bunch of his Smarties weed cookies cause I was straight up hungry.
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Embrace new technology to do your job better and work either on your own changeable schedule or on a team of smarties you get along with well.
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As well as the invention of the Mars bar, the Crunchie, the Aero, Kit Kats, Rolos, and Smarties, the decade also saw the birth of Cadbury's Roses.
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This is an election year when the biggest yahoo comes from New York, and the Texans on the stage talk like the Ivy League smarties they are.
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They pull everything out of his pockets—a pile of Smarties, the Armitron watch, the clover key chain—and check his backpack and gym bag for weapons.
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The wriggling stowaway was discovered by 19-year-old Beckie Richardson, who spotted the beast snuffling around beside the smarties when she lifted one of the shopping crates.
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And maybe the sweetest perk of all: In preparation for Halloween, Smarties workers are gifted 30 pounds of the candy to share with family, friends and trick-or-treaters.
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"Some Eastern smarties called ours a sewer socialism," Seidel wrote: Yes, we wanted sewers in the workers' homes; but we wanted much, oh, so very much more than sewers.
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For three generations Smarties candies have been a favorite among Halloween trick-or-treaters who love the pastel-colored wafers that are even good for some allergen-sensitive children.
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For Smarties, one of the oldest family-run candy companies in the U.S. with 70 years in the business, Halloween marks the biggest sales day of the year, Inc. reports.
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That makes sense, in many ways, since what the smarties have created has resulted in pain for a lot more people than has been clear to those in Silicon Valley.
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This makes the Dee cousins the third generation to run the Smarties business, the first all-women leadership team for the company, and fifth generation of candy makers within their family.
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Coop would launch a two-week sale from mid-May offering up to 30 percent discounts on more than 500 Nestle products such as Nescafe instant coffee, Smarties sweets and Moevenpick ice-cream.
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According to Liz, only 12% of family businesses make it to the third generation, but Smarties is one of the few that remain within the family, which the women are committed to maintaining.
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So three cheers for them, please: reporters and critics and photographers and editors, videographers and designers and engineers and audience shamans, product quarterbacks and marketing smarties, cooks and recipe testers and stylists, alike.
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Smarties should lay down a few plans this weekend against the surety that they will change in coming days — as when news arrives that your aunt is coming in from Chicago for the holiday.
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I came into this being like Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara, oh boy, are they only going to eat only red smarties and you're not going to be able to make eye contact with them?
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If you're wondering what in the hell kind of measures that would take, it appears as though the smarties at Tatcha have figured it all out with its newest oil-free hydrator: The Water Cream.
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Okay, so he may have left her Smarties and then got offended when she didn't visit him, but cut him a bit of slack — he was only 7 or 8 at the time, after all.
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Vitamin CWhile not really a diet fad, you might also get sick soon, and when you do you'll probably turn to your trusty citrus-flavored Vitamin C chews and eat them as if they were Smarties candy.
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He solemnly tells her that, "Last night while you were sleeping, mommy and I ate all your Halloween candy," while presenting the near-empty bag containing only a pack of Smarties — arguably the worst Halloween candy, ever.
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The company, which produces Kit Kat, Aero, and Smarties, claims to have hit upon a scientific breakthrough that will allow it to alter the structure of sugar so that it dissolves more quickly, meaning less needs to be used.
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Both slightly sad looking mini abominable creatures were doused in a tiny baggie of potassium phosphate, a food additive also known as E340, one of the E numbers that your Mum used to mention when ranting about blue smarties.
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The author of the post wasn't identified—the Best of Nextdoor Twitter account scribbled over their face—but they said that they lived in Rancho Cucamonga, California, and they have had it up to here with "cheap candy" like Dum Dums, Smarties, and Jolly Ranchers.
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At last summer's annual confab of the nation's TV critics, this usually unflappable contingent of seen-it-all smarties had their collective breath taken away with the disclosure that there will likely be way more than 400 scripted series on the so-called "small screen" in 2016.
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It dawned on me that halfway across the country, an actual person had just bought a sleeve of 18-ounce red plastic cups, a pair of Cat and Jack girl's leggings, an 18-ounce bag of Smarties, a four-pack of Totino's triple cheese frozen party pizzas and a 49-cent pencil sharpener.
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Feeling sorry for me, Amil kindly invited me into the tent of her making and provided me with Canadian snacks: ketchup chips (why not just dip regular chips in ketchup?), Smarties (fake-ass M&Ms with an unoriginal name stolen from another American candy), and Crispers (neither chips nor crackers, but sus all the same).
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The German Smarties slogan is "Viele, viele bunte Smarties" (which translates as "lots and lots of colourful Smarties").
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The company also produces Mega Smarties, Giant Smarties, X-treme Sour Smarties, Tropical Smarties, Love Hearts, Smarties 'n Creme, candy necklaces, Smarties Pops in three sizes, and other candies, including Breath Savers. All Smarties products are peanut-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, and vegan. While generally considered a Halloween staple, groups also give out Smarties to encourage people to buckle up and drive safely. Among these are Tampa Bays' Students Against Destructive Ideas (SADD) and Dum Dum or Smartie initiatives in schools.
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UK blue Smarties, old (above) and new (below) Smarties are also sold in the form of chocolate bars and eggs with fragments of Smarties in them, and chocolate-and-vanilla ice cream with Smarties pieces in it known as Smarties Fusion. A variant on Smarties ice cream is the Smarties McFlurry, sold by McDonald's. It was discontinued temporarily in 2012, brought back in early 2014 but withdrawn again in late 2015, being replaced with Oreo. For decades Canadian Dairy Queen restaurants offered a Smarties Blizzard, however, in early 2015 this was dropped and replaced with an M&M;'s Blizzard.
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The Smarties Blizzard returned to the menu in early 2018. In 1997, larger-sized Giant Smarties were introduced, and, in 2004, Fruity Smarties. Another variation of Smarties, which contained white chocolate rather than milk chocolate, was also introduced. These were trialled as "Smarctic Frost Bites", however upon their proper release a year or so later, they were simply called White Chocolate Smarties.
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Smarties Rolls The ingredients in Smarties candies are dextrose, citric acid, calcium stearate, natural and artificial flavors, and colors. There are 25 calories and 6.9 grams of sugar in a roll of Smarties.
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In the United States, Smarties are a type of tablet candy produced by Smarties Candy Company, formerly known as Ce De Candy Inc., since 1949. Smarties are produced in factories in both Union Township, New Jersey, and Newmarket, Ontario. The candies distributed in Canada are marketed as Rockets, to avoid confusion with Nestlé's Smarties.
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The Smarties Candy Company operates two factories that produce smarties 24 hours a day for five days a week, amounting to over 70,000 pounds per day. After mixing the dry ingredients they are pressed into tablets and then stacked and rolled into a Smarties wrapper for packaging.
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The Canadian candies go by the name Rockets to avoid confusion with Nestle's candy-coated chocolate Smarties. The company now produces Smarties around the clock in its two factories producing over 2.5 billion Smarties candy rolls per year. In 1991, Mr. T and Ce De Candy collaborated to form Crusade for Kids.
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In February 2008, blue smarties were reintroduced using natural blue dye derived from the cyanobacterium spirulina instead of the controversial Brilliant Blue FCF (FD&C; Blue 1, E133). Artificial colouring was removed from Smarties on the Canadian market in March 2009. The new range included all the colours except blue. Blue Smarties were re-added in May 2010.
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In 1998, a product known as "Smarties Secrets" was introduced which contained sweets of varying designs, colours and flavours. The packaging also contained a small comic book. This product is no longer available. In Canada, there was a limited line of red and white Smarties where the white Smarties sport a red maple leaf, reminiscent of the Canadian flag.
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Holiday packaging for Halloween (sold as Scaries), Christmas and Valentine's Day (containing only pink and red Smarties) is common. Also in Canada, Nestlé has introduced Peanut and Peanut Butter Smarties. Around Christmas, Nestlé Australia and Canada often releases Smarties in the Christmas colours of red, green and white. In other countries, like Canada, there is more variety in packaging.
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Flavours include Oreo, Creme Egg and Smarties in the UK market.
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Red Smarties were previously dyed with cochineal, a derivative of the product made by extracting colour from female cochineal beetles. A pigment extracted from red cabbage is now used in the United Kingdom. For the purposes of assessing an "active learning approach to epidemiology and critical appraisal", a mock randomised controlled trial tested the hypothesis that red Smarties could increase happiness. Based on a trial with 117 participants in four settings in Australia, Canada and Malaysia, red Smarties eaters were no happier than yellow Smarties eaters.
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This Smarties variant was made in Canada for distribution in the United States.
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Each color's flavor is different. They are usually packaged as a roll of 15 candies. Smarties candies are peanut-free, gluten-free, fat- free and dairy-free. All Smarties candies are free of animal products and are thus suitable for vegans.
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Each package contains an assortment of pastel colors, including white, yellow, pink, green, purple, and orange. The flavors are orange cream, pineapple, cherry, strawberry, grape, and orange, respectively. Smarties Candy Company also produces "X-treme sour" and "tropical" varieties of Smarties as well as lollipops in three sizes. In October 2015, the company launched Smarties 'n Creme, which are quarter-sized candy tablets with smartie flavor on one side and cream flavor on the other.
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South Africa Nestlé Smarties, with the "wotalotigot" slogan on the side In South Africa the slogan is "Wot a lot I got". This is often printed on one of the sides of the Smarties box in brown lettering simply as a single word, "Wotalotigot".
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Blitzcat is a 1989 novel by Robert Westall, and recipient of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize.
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Before 1958, dark-brown Smarties had a plain-chocolate centre, while light-brown ones were coffee-flavoured. The orange Smarties contained orange-flavoured chocolate;Ben Schott, Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany, however, these days the orange flavour is added to the shell only. In 2006 it was announced that Nestlé was removing all artificial colourings from Smarties in the United Kingdom. Nestlé decided to replace all synthetic dyes with natural ones, but, unable to source a natural blue dye, removed blue Smarties from circulation (which led to the common misunderstanding that the blue Smartie triggered hyperactivity in some children) and replaced them with white ones.
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UK Nestlé Smarties, before (above) and immediately after (below) transition to natural colours. Current UK Smarties include a natural blue in place of white. In one of the earlier ranges of colours, there was a light-brown Smartie. This was replaced in 1988 by the blue Smartie.
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Smarties can be purchased in rectangular boxes, a giant tube, or in a stand-up plastic bag, and in 410 g bags in Australia and New Zealand. In the United States a Smarties variant was introduced by Nestlé for a limited time as part of a product promotion for Disney's animation feature "Tarzan" in 1999. "Tarzan Treats" featured red, green, brown, blue, orange and yellow Smarties pieces. Yellow pieces contained an outline graphic of characters featured in the film.
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Word marks representing similar ideas can be confusing (e.g. "Smoothies" and "Smarties" in the context of candies).
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The first volume, Mortal Engines, won the 2002 Smarties Prize. A Darkling Plain won the 2006 Guardian prize.
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Additionally, Masters was a writer for TV, most notably composing "A Handful of Smarties" which aired in the UK.
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Other tasks have been developed to try to solve the problems inherent in the false-belief task. In the "Unexpected contents", or "Smarties" task, experimenters ask children what they believe to be the contents of a box that looks as though it holds a candy called "Smarties". After the child guesses (usually) "Smarties", it is shown that the box in fact contained pencils. The experimenter then re-closes the box and asks the child what she thinks another person, who has not been shown the true contents of the box, will think is inside.
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Varjak Paw (2003) is a novel by the British author S. F. Said and illustrated by Dave McKean.Varjak Paw at Fantastic Fiction The illustrations in this book have a dark "gothic" quality. The novel received the 2003 Smarties Gold Award for the 6–8 years range,Smarties Book Prize winners 2003 and has been adapted for other media.
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Charlotte Voake (born 1957) is a Welsh children's illustrator who has won several awards including the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 1997.
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Smarties spiral tube By 1954 one third of the carton business was producing over 43 million Quaker cereal boxes per year. In 1956 Robinsons started producing the 'Smarties' tubes for Rowntree's. The construction was based upon the 'Little John Drum' spiral tube box invented by John Bradbury Robinson II in 1924. The Box Division was renamed the Packaging Division in 1965.
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Manning and illustrator Brita Granström began making children's books together in 1993. Their first combined effort (The World Is Full of Babies) won the Smarties Silver Prize (years 0-5) in 1996. Book awards: Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, LibraryThing Later recognitions include the Times Education Supplement Award; five Royal Society Junior Science Book prizes; and The English Association Non-Fiction Award (2000, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014).
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Fizzers are rolled-up tablet candies that fizz and dissolve when put into soda. They are similar to the American candy Smarties (called Rockets in Canada).
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The Great Elephant Chase has received great critical acclaim. It won the Whitbread Children's book award in 1992Costa Book Awards Past Winners and the Smarties Book Prize.
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Emily Smith is an English children's writer. Her books are aimed at young readers, mainly writing for Young Corgi Books (a Transworld Publishers imprint) and Orchard Books. Her first children's book, Astrid, the au pair from Outer Space won the Silver medal in the 6-8 age group, at the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize 1999. The Shrimp won the 6-8 age group Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold medal in 2000.
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Beside winning the Branford Boase Award, Keeper was bronze runner up for the Smarties Prize in ages category 9–11 years and made the Hampshire Book Award shortlist.
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Oxenbury also won three Nestlé Smarties Book Prizes (1985 to 2007), all in the 0–5 years category. The Smarties Prize winners were elected by children from shortlists composed by a panel. Oxenbury-illustrated picture books were the overall winners for 1989, We're Going on a Bear Hunt retold by Michael Rosen, and for 1991, Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell, another Greenaway runner up. So Much was the 1994 age group winner.
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Neal Layton is a British illustrator of children's books including Oscar and Arabella (2002) and Bartholomew and the Bug (2004) which won both the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze AwardsWalker Books profile.
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Mobby's Award for Best New App at the Mobile Digital and Marketing Summit [2013] Smarties India Award for the publisher/media company of the year [2013] Impact's Icons of India's Digital Ecosystem.
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Archived at Wayback Engine. Rowling moved from her flat with the money from the Scholastic sale, into 19 Hazelbank Terrace in Edinburgh. Rowling at the US National Press Club, 1999 Its sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published in July 1998 and again Rowling won the Smarties Prize. In December 1999, the third novel, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, won the Smarties Prize, making Rowling the first person to win the award three times running.
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The words for the Canadian advertising jingle from the 1970s until the mid-1990s were: When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last? Do you suck them very slowly, or crunch them very fast? Eat those candy-coated chocolates, but tell me when I ask: When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last? This jingle was set to the tune of Lonnie Donegan's "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)".
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The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray went on to win the Silver Award and the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 2001. It also received rave reviews from The Times, Daily Telegraph, Teen Terrain.com, and Bookseller.
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The Shrimp is a children's novel by Emily Smith. It won the 2001 Gold Award in 6–8 years category of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. It is a part of the Young Corgi series.
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The current Smarties slogan is "Only Smarties have the answer", which has been used since the late 1970s; however, the previous slogan, "Do you eat the red ones last?", is still occasionally used. In the 1950s and 1960s, the phrase "Buy some for Lulu" was sung as a tagline in commercials. In the end of the commercial, a boy/girl (usually a teacher or cowboy etc.) says the phrase and walks off, leaving the Rowntree text and the Smartie packaging on the screen for five seconds.
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In 1997 the UK edition won a National Book Award and a gold medal in the 9- to 11-year-olds category of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. The Smarties award, which is voted for by children, made the book well known within six months of publication, while most children's books have to wait for years. The following year, Philosopher's Stone won almost all the other major British awards that were decided by children. It was also shortlisted for children's books awards adjudicated by adults, but did not win.
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The New Jersey factory produces approximately 1 billion rolls of Smarties annually, and in total the company produces over 2.5 billion in a year. One individual candy is a biconcave disc in shape, with a diameter of roughly 1 cm (0.39 in) and a height of roughly 4 mm (0.16 in). Larger ones have a diameter of 2.5 cm (0.98 in) and are about 6 mm (0.24 in) thick. Smarties come in combinations of colors within their wrapped rolls; these include white and pastel shades of yellow, pink, orange, purple, and green.
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Smarties are colour-varied sugar-coated chocolate confectionery. They have been manufactured since 1937, originally by H.I. Rowntree & Company in the UK, and are currently produced by Nestlé. Smarties are oblate spheroids with a minor axis of about 5 mm (0.2 in) and a major axis of about 12 mm (0.5 in). They come in eight colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, mauve, pink and brown, although the blue variety was temporarily replaced by a white variety in some countries, while an alternative natural colouring dye of the blue colour was being researched.
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That same month, Smarties announced the #LittleSmarties campaign to promote intellectual curiosity which features historical figures including Jane Goodall, Marie Curie, and Amelia Earhart, as well as a partnership with DonorsChoose to support classrooms in need of funding.
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Oscar and Arabella is a children's picture book by Neal Layton, published in 2002. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award.Nestlé Children's Book Prize Oscar and Arabella are two woolly mammoths living in the Ice Age.
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The Witch's Children and the Queen is a children's picture book written by Ursula Jones, illustrated by Russell Ayto, and published by Orchard Children's Books in 2003. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, ages category 0–5 years.
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For Bill's New Frock, written by Anne Fine and illustrated by Philippe Dupasquier, he received the Smarties Prize, and Carnegie Medal commendation, from the British Library Association, both 1989, and then the Oak Tree Award, from Nottinghamshire Libraries, in 1990.
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Smile! is a children's book by Geraldine McCaughrean. In 2004 it won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award.Nestlé Children's Book Prize It is about a photographer stranded in the wilderness with only ten shots left on his Polaroid camera.
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My Friend Walter is a children's fiction novel by Michael Morpurgo. It was first published in Great Britain by William Heinemann in 1988. The book was shortlisted for the 1989 Smarties Prize. This book is based on a girl called bess.
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The book won a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the 2003 Blue Peter Book Award. It was shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Award, the 2004 ALA's Notable Books for Children award and the 2020 Blue Peter Awards 20th anniversary prize.
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It was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works for the 70th anniversary celebration in 2007. Westall also won a second Carnegie (no one has won three), a Smarties Prize, and the once-in-a-lifetime Guardian Prize.
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The book won the overall Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 1989 and also won the 0–5 years category. The publisher, Walker Books, celebrated the Work's 25th anniversary in 2014 by breaking a Guinness World Record for the Largest Reading Lesson.
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Roll of Bottle Caps: Cola, Root Beer, Cherry, Orange, and Grape Bottle Cap candies Bottle Caps are sweet tablet candies made to look like metal soda bottle caps in grape, cola, orange, root beer, and cherry flavors. They are sold by Nestlé under their Willy Wonka Candy Company brand. Bottle Caps have a sour but slightly sweet taste to them, not wholly dissimilar to Smarties Candy Company's Smarties (Rockets outside the U.S.), SweeTarts or Runts, but with soda flavors and altered shapes. Bottle Caps come in purple packages weighing 0.73 oz (16 g) and containing approximately 24 pieces.
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The Nestlé Children's Book Prize, and Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for a time, was a set of annual awards for British children's books that ran from 1985 to 2007. It was administered by Booktrust, an independent charity that promotes books and reading in the United Kingdom, and sponsored by Nestlé, the manufacturer of Smarties candy. It was one of the most respected and prestigious prizes for children's literature. There were three award categories defined by audience ages 0 to 5 years, 6 to 8 years, and 9 to 11 years (introduced in 1987 after two years with no single prize).
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The novel also won Children's Book of the Year British Book Award, and was shortlisted for the 1998 Guardian Children's Award and the 1998 Carnegie Award. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize 1998 Gold Medal in the 9–11 years division. Rowling also won two other Nestlé Smarties Book Prizes for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The Scottish Arts Council awarded their first ever Children’s Book Award to the novel in 1999, and it was also awarded Whitaker's Platinum Book Award in 2001.
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The first book by this award-winning writer, it was described as "unmissable" and "spellbinding" by the Sunday Telegraph while in the Guardian it was called "one of the best books of the year". It was shortlisted for the Smarties Book Award in 1998.
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The first book, Ottoline and the Yellow Cat (2007), won the final Smarties Prize in age category 6–8 years (the Smarties were discontinued in 2008). It has been followed by Ottoline Goes to School and Ottoline at Sea. Beside writing and illustrating books, Riddell is an acclaimed political cartoonist for the Observer newspaper in London, where his caricatures of politicians from John Major to Gordon Brown, Bill Clinton to George W. Bush, have earned him a reputation as a fine draughtsman and acute commentator on the political scene. Before working at the Observer, Chris spent time working at the Economist as an illustrator and occasional cover artist.
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The Countess's Calamity is a children's book written and illustrated by Sally Gardner, published in 2003.The Countess's Calamity at WorldCat It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award.Nestlé Children's Book Prize It is the first of the Tales from the Box series about sentient toys.
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Besides winning the Illustrated Children's Book of the Year at the 1991 British Book Awards and the British Design Production Award (Children's Books), the book was shortlisted for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize children's choice, the Children's Book Award and was commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal.
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Journey to the River Sea won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for reader ages 9–11. It was identified as runner-up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and it made the shortlist for the Carnegie Medal; the Whitbread Award, Children's Book; and the Blue Peter Book Award.
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International awards include the Nestlé Smarties Gold Award 2001 for 'Chimp and Zee', written by Anholt, illustrated by Catherine Anholt, and the Nestlé Smarties Gold Award 1999 for 'Snow White and the Seven Aliens', one of the 'Seriously Silly Stories' written by Anholt, Illustrated by Arthur Robins. Anholt has been amongst the 150 Most Borrowed Author's from UK Libraries and the PLR (Public Lending Right) listed Laurence Anholt at position 146 in 2007/8. Anholt was included in the Independent on Sunday's Top 10 Children's Authors in the UK.. 'The Hypnotist' was the overall winner of the Historical Winner Young Quills Award 2017, nominated for the Carnegie Medal and officially endorsed by Amnesty International in 2017.
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He took a double first in 1996. After Cambridge, Schott got a job at the London advertising agency J. Walter Thompson where he was as an account manager on the Nestlé Rowntree account working on Smarties, Kit Kat, and Polo. After only four months he resigned to become a freelance photographer.
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He received the credit that the show was "based on an original lunch with Martin Lambie-Nairn." Following Channel 4 and Spitting Image, he worked as a director of computer animated commercials, producing the first ever 30 second computer generated TV advertisement in the UK, which was a commercial for Smarties.
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Chocolate beans were first sold loose in 1938, but were later packaged in a cardboard tube and branded as Smarties. Polo, the distinctive mint with a hole in the centre, was developed in 1939, but its introduction was delayed by the onset of war. Harris was made company chairman in 1941.
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Her Six Dinner Sid (1990), an illustrated book for children about a cat, took six months to complete and won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in the under-five category,Inga Moore at illustrationcupboard.com, accessed 19 August 2018 but during the recession of the early 1990s her flat was repossessed.
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The child passes the task if he/she responds that another person will think that "Smarties" exist in the box, but fails the task if she responds that another person will think that the box contains pencils. Gopnik & Astington (1988) found that children pass this test at age four or five years.
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The Last Castaways is a children's book in The Last... series by Harry Horse, published in 2003. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Silver Award.Nestlé Children's Book Prize It is a humorous adventure tale told through a series of letters from Grandfather to his grandchild, a ship's log and a diary.
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First edition The Butterfly Lion is a children's novel by Michael Morpurgo. It was first published in Great Britain by Collins in 1996, and won the 1996 Smarties book prize. The book was adapted into a stage play by Daniel Buckroyd of the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, which toured the UK in 2014.
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Chocolate beans were first sold loose in 1938, but were later packaged in a cardboard tube and branded as Smarties. Polo, the distinctive mints with a hole in the centre, were developed in 1939, but their planned introduction was delayed by the onset of war. Harris was made company chairman in 1941.
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It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award,Nestlé Children's Book Prize was shortlisted for the Branford Boase AwardBranford Boase Award and was voted #127 in the BBC's Big Read poll to find the UK's favourite book.BBC - The Big Read - Top 200 Books It was also named a Printz Honor book in 2001.
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Both That's Me and What Planet? were bronze runners-up for the Smarties Prize in ages category 6–8 years and the latter won the Kids Club category. That's Me was also a highly commended runner-up for the Kate Greenaway Medal, the annual British Library Association award for children's book illustration. "Kate Greenaway Medal" . 2007(?).
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Beside the 2008 Carnegie Medal Here Lies Arthur was bronze runner up for the final Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, ages category 9–11 years. It made the Booktrust Teenage Prize shortlist and the Manchester Book Award longlist. in 2008. Five years after its publication, WorldCat reports that Here Lies Arthur is Reeve's work most widely held in participating libraries.
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The candy had a chalky appearance and consistency, with a firm crunch that would crumble in the mouth, similar to SweeTarts or Smarties. Along with Nerds and Wacky Wafers, Tart 'n' Tinys were top sellers for the Wonka company in the 1980s.Kimmerle, Beth Candy: The Sweet History USA: Collectors Press, 2003. In the 1990s these original candies were discontinued.
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She also wrote the Josie Smith books for children and did occasional journalistic pieces for English, German and Italian papers. In 1991 she won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Josie Smith and Eileen, the second book in the series. Her final novel, Vita Nuova, was posthumously published in 2008. She died in Florence of a stroke, aged 60.
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It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Silver Award in 2005,Nestlé Children's Book Prize as well as being shortlisted for the 2004 Carnegie Medal.The CILIP Carnegie Medal & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards According to the author's website, the book is being adapted by BAFTA winning writer Danny Brocklehurst and turned into a film by Aardman.
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Giant-sized Smarties candies In 1949, Edward Dee, a second generation candymaker from England, first began producing candy rolls in a rented New Jersey factory in Bloomfield with one wrapping machine and one tablet presser which was a repurposed pellet-making machine. Dee, a Cambridge University graduate, called his product "Smarties" to "encourage people to pursue an education." His family produces a similar candy in England through Swizzels Matlow Co. Initially, Dee took the candy by car to small grocery and tobacco stores. He later moved his American operations to Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1959 and then again to its current location in Union Township in 1967. Ce De Candy's Canadian operations were first established in Toronto, Ontario, in 1963, and were later moved to Newmarket in 1988.
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Nestlé acquired Rowntree's in 1988 and now markets chocolates under their brand, including Smarties (a chocolate candy) and Kit Kat (a chocolate bar); Kraft Foods through its 1990 acquisition of Jacobs Suchard, now owns Milka and Suchard. In February 2010, Kraft also acquired British-based Cadbury; Fry's, Trebor Basset and the fair trade brand Green & Black's also belongs to the group.
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Five months later, the book won its first award, a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. In February, the novel won the British Book Award for Children's Book of the Year and, later, the Children's Book Award. In early 1998, an auction was held in the United States for the rights to publish the novel, and was won by Scholastic Inc., for US$105,000.
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Ascospores are yellow, 4–4.5 × 3–3.5 μm in diameter. The ascospores look like pitted smarties or pulley wheels, which is characteristics of Onygenaceae. Chlamydosauromyces punctatus has branched, narrow, smooth-walled, yellow hyphae, 1.5–2.5 μm in width with thin-walled septa. Peripheral hyphae are poorly differentiated and this is the reason that C. punctatus was once considered in the Gymnoascaceae.
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His first book, Ogopogo, My Journey with the Loch Ness Monster, was published in 1983. He also wrote The Last... series of books; this included The Last Polar Bears, which was adapted into a 30-minute cartoon for CITV and a touring theatre production for the National Theatre of Scotland, and The Last Castaways, which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize.
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For some of those five books she also won the Guardian Prize, one Smarties Prize, two Whitbread Awards, and she was twice the Children's Author of the Year. For her contribution as a children's writer, Fine was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1998. From 2001 to 2003, she was the second Children's Laureate in the UK.
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Lost and Found is a children's picture book by Oliver Jeffers, published in 2005. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award and was the Blue Peter Book of the Year.Nestlé Children's Book Prize Blue Peter Book Awards 2006 An animated short film adaptation was made by Studio AKA in 2008. It was directed by Philip Hunt and broadcast on Channel 4.
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Ginger is a children's picture book by Charlotte Voake. In 1997 it won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award.Nestlé Children's Book Prize It is about a pampered house cat who resents the sudden appearance of a kitten in her life. The book is followed by Ginger Finds a Home, a prequel, and Ginger and the Mystery Visitor, in which Ginger and the kitten confront a stranger.
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That Pesky Rat is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Lauren Child and published by Orchard UK in 2002. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in ages category 6–8 yearsNestlé Children's Book Prize . and it was commended runner up for the Kate Greenaway Medal from the professional librarians, recognising the year's best-illustrated British children's book.Press releases for the 2002 Awards (directory). CILIP.
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It was also silver runner up for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in ages category 6–8 years. "Nestlé Children's Book Prize". Booktrust. Retrieved 2012-11-29. The Greenaway press release celebrated Pirate Diary as an "exciting information book for children from 8 to 14" and the first "information book" to win the illustration Medal since 1975, and called it "a fictionalised account" (quoting CILIP).
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The Owl Tree is a novella by Jenny Nimmo which was released in 1997. The story is about a boy, Joe, who tries to save an owl tree which his grandmother Granny Diamond is fond of and her neighbor, Mr Rock, who intends to cut down as it is too tall and blocking out the sunlight beneath it. It received the 1997 Smarties Book Prize Gold Award.
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This was before the rise of the singer Lulu. Lulu was one of the daughters of a developer of the advert, Richard Oxby. There was also a song called "A Handful of Smarties," written by Gerald Masters, which also aired in Europe, The Caribbean and Jamaica. Mid-1980s television commercials were notable for their advanced use of computer-generated imagery, produced by Martin Lambie-Nairn.
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Stinna Tange Kaastrup (born 13 July 1994) is a Danish female para-equestrian competing at Individual Championship test, Individual Freestyle test and Team test — grade Ib. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Kaastrup and her horse, the 15 year-old Danish Warmblood gelding Horsebo Smarties, won a bronze medal with the score 73.966 percent at the Individual Championship test grade Ib event.
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On October 1, 2014, Sony Music and Kik Interactive were given a Smarties award by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) for their global music marketing campaign with One Direction. In October 2016, company CEO Ted Livingston was recognized as Toronto's most brilliant tech innovator by Toronto Life for his work with Kik. Livingston was also recognized for being one of the "Most Creative People in Business" on Fast Companys 2017 list.
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She is well aware of her obesity but seems to take a relatively laid-back attitude toward it. A self-confessed chocoholic, her favourite being Smarties and Curly Wurlys, she has innumerable chocolate bars hidden throughout her house (even in hollowed-out Bibles). On one occasion, she gives up chocolate for Lent and nearly goes mad but does succeed. She has an enormous crush on actor Sean Bean.
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Wolves is picture book written and illustrated by Emily Gravett, published by Macmillan in 2005. Her first book, it won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals as the year's best-illustrated children's book published in the United Kingdom. It was also bronze runner-up for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in age category 0–5 years. Nestlé Children's Book Prize.
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Köhlert first appeared as a child in commercials for Kinder Chocolate, BMW, IKEA, Smarties, McDonald's and Tchibo. In 2008, he played an uncredited role as a child in the film '. In 2009, he appeared as Philipp in the episode "Schwanenmord" of the television series Die Pfefferkörner. Later that year, he played the role of Klein Brakelmann in the episode "Goldene Erinnerungen" of the television series Neues aus Büttenwarder.
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Rowntree's is a British confectionery business based in York, England. Rowntree developed the Kit Kat (introduced in 1935), Aero (introduced in 1935), Fruit Pastilles (introduced in 1881), Smarties (introduced in 1937) brands, and the Rolo and Quality Street brands when it merged with Mackintosh's in 1969 to form Rowntree Mackintosh Confectionery. Rowntree's also launched After Eight thin mint chocolates in 1962. The Yorkie and Lion bars were introduced in 1976.
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The book won the overall Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 1989 and also won the 0–5 years category. In 1989 it was an 'Honor Book' in the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards. The book also won the 'School Library Journal Best Book of the Year' and the 'Mainichi Newspapers Japanese Picture Book Award, Outstanding Picture Book from Abroad' award. It was highly commended for the 1989 Kate Greenaway Medal.
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The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Mini Grey, published by Jonathan Cape in 2006. It won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the professional librarians, recognising the year's best-illustrated children's book published in the U.K. It was also bronze runner up for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in ages category 6–8 years. "Nestlé Children's Book Prize". Booktrust. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
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Strat and Chatto (by Jan Mark), won Hughes the Mother Goose Award for "most exciting newcomer to British children's book illustration" in 1990. Bully was shortlisted for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 1993. Little Robert was selected by the Association of Illustrators in 1997 for Image 22, and was subsequently exhibited at the Royal College of Art, and later touring. In 1999 he received a D&AD; Silver Award for his illustrations of Othello.
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Almond's major awards include the Hans Christian Andersen Award, Carnegie Medal (Skellig); two Whitbread Awards; the U.S. Michael L. Printz Award for young-adult books (Kit's Wilderness); the Smarties Prize, ages 9–11 years (The Fire-Eaters); the U.S. Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Children's Fiction (The Fire-Eaters); the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (A Song for Ella Grey); "David Almond wins Guardian children's fiction prize". Michelle Pauli. The Guardian. 19 November 2015.
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Since 1995, he has worked regularly for Deutschlandfunk and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). In 2008, Charité awarded him the media award „Medizin – Mensch – Technik“ for the radio feature „Smarties für die Prostata – IT-gestützte Visualisierungstechniken in der Medizin“. In 2009 and 2014, he received the Deutscher Hörbuchpreis for the best non-fiction. His contributions to Deutschlandfunk are Forschung aktuell, its saturday edition Computer und Kommunikation, and its sunday edition Wissenschaft im Brennpunkt, amongst other things.
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Nestlé's products include baby food, medical food, bottled water, breakfast cereals, coffee and tea, confectionery, dairy products, ice cream, frozen food, pet foods, and snacks. Twenty-nine of Nestlé's brands have annual sales of over CHF1 billion (about ),"Nestlé: Tailoring products to local niches" CNN, 2 July 2010. including Nespresso, Nescafé, Kit Kat, Smarties, Nesquik, Stouffer's, Vittel, and Maggi. Nestlé has 447 factories, operates in 189 countries, and employs around 339,000 people.
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He retired from teaching only in 1985, and tried dealing antiques before focusing exclusively on his writing. For Blitzcat (Bodley Head, 1989) he won the annual Smarties Prize in category 9–11 years. In 1994 the American Library Association named it one of the hundred Best Books for Young Adults of the Last 25 years. He finally won the once-in-a-lifetime Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for The Kingdom by the Sea (Methuen, 1990).
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In 2005, the book was published in the UK as well as Italy, Germany, Greece, Holland, Russia, Portugal and Japan. US rights were subsequently bought at auction for a six-figure sum. In 2007 he collaborated with his cousin Charlotte Voake, the Nestle Smarties Book Prize-winning author of Pizza Kittens and Ginger, to write Insect Detective. He is currently also Senior Lecturer in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University.
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Astros were first launched in 1997 by Cadbury in the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, US and South Africa as a rival to Nestlé Smarties, and Mars M&M;'s in the US.Independent, The (London), Aug 7, 1997 by Nigel Cope The confectionery can be described as a candy coated chocolate with a biscuit centre. They have since been discontinued in the UK, but are still sold in South Africa. In Australia they were marketed as Lunas.
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In the United Kingdom, Smarties chocolates were colored with Brilliant Blue FCF (top) until 2008, later being replaced with a natural spirulina coloring (bottom). The dye is poorly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and 95% of the ingested dye can be found in the feces. When applied to the tongue or shaved skin, Brilliant Blue FCF can be absorbed directly into the bloodstream. Due to its nontoxic properties, Brilliant Blue FCF has been used as a biological stain.
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Among other things, Tracy's autobiography details her life so far, her being "deprived and abused" in the children's home (for example, she is deprived of Mars Bars and Smarties) and the types of revenge she would like to take upon her enemies. She is very imaginative and believes that her mum will come home one day. She often portrays a deep and complicated mind. In 2002 the book was voted the winner of the Blue Peter People's Choice Award.
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Also in 2008, some cold medicine was discovered in cases of Smarties that were handed out to children in Ontario. Over the years, various experts have tried to debunk the various candy tampering stories. Among this group is Joel Best, a University of Delaware sociologist who specializes in investigating candy tampering legends. In his studies, and the book Threatened Children: Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims, he researched newspapers from 1958 on in search of candy tampering.
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Grandpa Chatterji is a series for younger children, named after its first book, which was adapted for television in 1997.Video. Other books in the series are Grandpa Chatterji's Third Eye and Grandpa's Indian Summer. The first book made the Smarties Prize shortlist for reader ages 6–8. Jamila Gavin has also written The Robber Baron's Daughter, Forbidden Memories, I Want to be An Angel, Kamla and Kate, Someone's Watching, Someone's Waiting, The Hideaway and The Wormholers.
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Labour held both of the seats they had been defending with the result in Heron Wood being closest with Labour holding on by 108 votes. The British National Party saw an increased vote, with the party winning 20% in Mayfield, just 28 votes short of second place. Meanwhile, the candidate from the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, whose policies had included a pledge to make people buy £90 worth of Smarties each week, won 59 votes in Rowhill ward.
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Pauline Millicent Fisk (27 September 1948 – 25 January 2015) was a British children's author. Her 1990 book, Midnight Blue, was awarded the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold award. In 1992, Fisk published her second book "Telling the Sea", set in the West Country. Fisk went on to publish "The Secret of Sabrina Fludde" (2002), "The Candle House" (1999), "The Red Judge" (2005), "Flying for Frankie" (2009) and "In the Trees" (2010) before her death in 2015.
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Almost the same as the Success pressings, except for some minor track length differences, and the fact that the early fade edit of "Scipio" from the Music Club issue has been used. The Merlin Records cassette, released at the same time as this CD, however, contains the full album in its original track order, albeit still with the edited version of "Scipio" ("Tuba Smarties" is the last track on side one and "Ballet-Volta" is the first track on side two).
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Double Act is a children's novel by Jacqueline Wilson, written in the style of a diary, which features identical twins Ruby and Garnet. Ruby and Garnet love each other dearly but they are completely different. Ruby is loud, outgoing and wild though Garnet is shy, quiet and kind. It was published in 1995, co- illustrated by Sue Heap and Nick Sharratt, and it won both the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (ages 9–11 years and overall) and the Red House Children's Book Award.
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Booktrust, in a review of Beware of the Storybook Wolves, wrote "A simple story, well told, but it is the adventurous artwork that makes this book stand out." The Horn Book Magazine wrote "While the concept is innovative and the conclusion is satisfying, the overlong text trips on its own cleverness." Beware of the Storybook Wolves has also been reviewed by Booklist, School Library Journal Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Books for Keeps. It was awarded a 2000 bronze Smarties Book Prize.
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In partnership later with Bruce Murrie, Mars developed M&M;'s, the chocolate candy covered in a crunchy shell which "melts in your mouth, not in your hands," in 1940. They were possibly modeled after Smarties. Peanut M&M;'s were introduced in 1954 although Forrest had been allergic to peanuts his entire life. Murrie later left the business. Following the death of his father, Forrest Mars took over the family business, Mars, Inc, merging it with his own company in 1964.
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Melissa Curry has produced designs for Swarovski, Toni & Guy, Liberty of London, Absolut, Moet et Chandon, Le Bon Marche, Galeries Lafayettes, and Phillipe Stark @ Bon. and was featured in the DIAS Trilogy. Her collection Smarties, symbolising hope and endurance, was presented to Michelle Obama during the 2011 Presidential Visit to Ireland In 2011, her work was featured at Ireland's National Craft Gallery in the 21st Century icons exhibit.21st Century icons exhibit She was also featured in the 2010 Crafts Council Ireland catalog.
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A half consumed gingerbread man, with icing decoration and Smarties as buttons Gingerbread dates from the 15th century, and figural biscuit-making was practiced in the 16th century.300 Years of Kitchen Collectibles, Linda Campbell Franklin, 4th edition [Books Americana: New York] 1998 (p. 183) The first documented instance of figure-shaped gingerbread biscuits was at the court of Elizabeth I of England. She had the gingerbread figures made and presented in the likeness of some of her important guests.
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Born in 1956 in Wellingborough, Northants, England, where he still lives, Elboz wrote his first novel in secret at his junior school in Wellingborough. Encouragement from teachers made him continue to write, although he only left school with only a single O-Level in technical drawing. Later educated at Lancaster University, he won a writing competition and had a play produced on the local radio station. Elboz was awarded the Smarties Young Judges' Prize for his first published novel, The House of Rats.
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The Mackintosh branding was dropped from all former Rowntree Mackintosh products except for Mackintosh's Toffee.Here's looking at chew The Grocer, 31 May 1997 Between 1988 and 1994, the Nestlé Rowntree workforce was reduced by 2,000. The Nestlé Rowntree factory in Norwich closed in 1994, and Rolo, Yorkie, and Easter-egg production was moved to York. In September 2006, it was announced that the manufacture of Smarties would be relocated to Hamburg, resulting in 645 job losses at the York factory.
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Or, as Scrooge himself would say to Huey, Dewey and Louie: by being "tougher than the toughies and smarter than the smarties." In Barks's stories Scrooge would work to solve his many problems, even though the stories would often point out that his constant efforts seemed futile at the end. In addition, Scrooge was quite similar to his creator in appearing often to be as melancholic, introspective and secretive as he was. Through both characters Barks would often exhibit his rather sarcastic sense of humor.
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The Gruffalo won the gold award (in the 0–5 years category) of the 1999 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. It was the UK's best-selling picture book of 2000, won the 2000 Nottingham/Experian Children's Book award, and the Blue Peter Best Book To Read Aloud award. The audio version won the Best Children's Audio award in the Spoken Book Awards.h2g2 - 'The Gruffalo' and 'The Gruffalo's Child' - Children's Stories In November 2009 the book was voted "best bedtime story" by listeners of BBC Radio 2.
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"Where Is the Feeling?" is a song by Australian recording artist and songwriter Kylie Minogue, taken from her fifth studio album Kylie Minogue (1994). The song was written by Wilf Smarties and Jayn Hanna, while production was handled by Brothers in Rhythm. It was released on 10 July 1995 as the third and final single from her self-titled album Kylie Minogue. Commercially, the song did fairly well, peaking at number 31 in Australia, and becoming a Top 20 hit in the United Kingdom.
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Already in 1972, Pam Grier's character in Hit Man starred in a pornographic film she believed was a screen test for Shaft. In the British gangster film Sexy Beast, Don Logan (played by Ben Kingsley) tells Gal Dove (played by Ray Winstone) that his fake name is "Roundtree, like Smarties, like Shaft." On the TV show Seinfeld, Shaft is reported to be Elaine's favorite movie. On The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Shaft is the idol of the fictional Will Smith, and several episodes make references to the film.
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At the time there wasn't one, but Jarvis then wrote the story of The Deptford Mice. He had originally envisioned it as a picture book, but it became a 70,000 word manuscript. When Jarvis' editor told him that the manuscript could make a trilogy due to its long length, he went away and cut it, and then came up with more ideas for the second and third books. The first book in the series, The Dark Portal, was a runner-up for the Smarties book prize in 1989.
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The Great Elephant Chase is a 1992 book children's novel by British author Gillian Cross.The Great Elephant Chase at WorldCat It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. It takes place in 1881 and follows the adventures of teenagers Tad and Cissie as they travel across America with Khush the elephant. The book is mainly written in third person narrative from Tad's point of view, but also contains epistolary segments, consisting of letters from Cissie to her friend Ketty, towards whose home they are travelling.
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In the late 1970s, she turned to writing books for children, some based on historical characters. They include My Royal Story about Catherine of Aragon, which was re-released in 2010. How's Business (1987), set in World War II, made the shortlist for the Nestle Smarties Book Prize. The Sherwood Hero (1995) is a modern-day Robin Hood story for young adults, about a girl stealing a credit card from her father's client, drawing £100, attempting to hand it out to the poor in the streets of Glasgow, and then coping with the guilt.
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Chris Riddell, ( ) (born 13 April 1962) is a British illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the Observer. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals as well as the British librarians' annual award for the best-illustrated children's book, and two of his works were commended runners-up, a distinction dropped after 2002. Books that he wrote or illustrated have won three Nestlé Smarties Book Prizes and have been silver or bronze runners-up four times. On 9 June 2015, he was appointed the UK Children's Laureate.
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Review of The Various from The Guardian X Isle is a post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller.X Isle at Goodreads Leonardo da Vinci combines fiction and non-fiction, revealing the life and art of Leonardo da Vinci partly through the journal of a young apprentice.Lifelines: Leonard da Vinci at Pan Macmillan The Various won a Smarties award in 2003Review of Winter Wood in The Independent and was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award.The Branford Boase award, Times Educational Supplement All three books of the Touchstone Trilogy and X Isle have been nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
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Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids is the debut book by British author Jamie Rix and was the first book in the children's cautionary horror book series Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids. It was published on 17 May 1990 by André Deutsch Limited and contains 15 short cautionary tales. These stories featured a monster maths teacher, animal nannies, a barber that specialised in making rude children behave themselves, a giant that cannot stop growing, a magical hat, a magic book, magic scissors, and a sweet shop full of mannequins. It won the 1990 Nestle Smarties Book Prize for Fiction, Age 9–11.
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Eva Maria Charlotte Michelle Ibbotson (née Wiesner; born 21 January 1925 – 20 October 2010), was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her children's books. Some of her novels for adults have been successfully reissued for the young adult market in recent years. For the historical novel Journey to the River Sea (Macmillan, 2001), she won the Smarties Prize in category 9–11 years, garnered unusual commendation as runner up for the Guardian Prize, and made the Carnegie, Whitbread, and Blue Peter shortlists. She was a finalist for the 2010 Guardian Prize at the time of her death.
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In response, the city and other levels of government began fining firms that violated environmental regulations, and zoning restrictions were put in place to prevent factories from expanding. Beginning in the 1990s these policies, combined with the general deindustrialization of North America, saw many of the factories in the area close, especially the most polluting ones. Former plants have been converted to lofts, and others have been demolished, leaving large brownfields. Some major factories do remain, notably the Nestlé factory at 72 Sterling Road (second largest Smarties production facility outside of Germany) that some days gives a strong chocolate smell to the area.
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Plain/Milk Chocolate M&M;'s were introduced in 1941. Forrest Mars, Sr., son of the Mars Company founder, Frank C. Mars, copied the idea for the candy in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War when he saw soldiers eating British-made Smarties, chocolate pellets with a colored shell of what confectioners call hard panning (essentially hardened sugar syrup) surrounding the outside, preventing the sweets (candies) from melting. Mars received a patent for his own process on March 3, 1941. Production began in 1941 in a factory located at 285 Badger Avenue in Clinton Hill, Newark, New Jersey.
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Since Donegan's version was released, it has appeared as a Smarties jingle, a performance on The Muppet Show, and re-worked into Czech by Jiří Grossmann. Additional versions of the song were recorded by The Irish Rovers and Homer & Jethro. In 2010, Donegan's version was used as the background song for a satellite TV advertisement for Savlon antiseptic cream. It has also been recorded by Eric Nagler (on his 1982 children's album Fiddle Up a Tune); Ray Stevens covers the song as part of his 9-CD, 108 song box set The Encyclopedia of Recorded Comedy Music (2012).
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Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Emily Gravett, published by Macmillan in 2007. It won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the professional librarians as the year's best-illustrated children's book published in the U.K. It was also bronze runner up for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in ages category 6–8 years. Nestlé Children's Book Prize . It is represented as an activity book (intended for the user to document their own fears and how they overcame them) that has been filled in and illustrated by "Little Mouse".
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A number of his works are based in London, in and around Deptford and Greenwich where he used to live, Felixstowe, or in Whitby, the setting for The Whitby Witches trilogy and his latest series: The Witching Legacy. His first novel – The Dark Portal, featuring the popular Deptford Mice – was the runner up for the Smarties book prize in 1989.Text on the front cover of the 2000 Hodder Silver edition of The Dark Portal. His work has been described as "genre Busting" and "original, spooky, unusual, psychological supernatural horror fantasy with a very modern twist".
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Reeve's first book for older readers was Mortal Engines, which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in age category 9–11 years and made the Whitbread Book Award shortlist. Mortal Engines is the first book in a series sometimes called the Mortal Engines Quartet (2001–2006), which includes Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices and A Darkling Plain. The books feature two young adventurers, Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw, living in a lawless post-apocalyptic world inhabited by moving cities. For the fourth volume, Reeve won the once-in-a-lifetime 2006 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of British children's writers.
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After publication it won the British librarians (CILIP) Carnegie Medal as the year's best children's book. A retrospective citation by CILIP says that it "skilfully blends fact and fiction to leave a lasting impression of real issues at work" and describes it as: "An important book which challenges the notion of 'truth' itself." It further describes the writing as "gripping, powerful and evocative". The Other Side of Truth was silver runner up for the 2000 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, was named an International Board on Books for Young People Honour Book in 2002, and won the 2002 Jane Addams Children's Book Award.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth book in the Harry Potter series. The first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was first published by Bloomsbury in 1997 with an initial print-run of 500 copies in hardback, 300 of which were distributed to libraries. By the end of 1997, the UK edition won a National Book Award and a gold medal in the 9-to-11-year-olds category of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. The second novel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published in the UK on 2 July 1998.
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Children's author Beverley Naidoo dedicated her award-winning book "The Other Side of Truth" (2000), about two Nigerian child refugees aged 10 and 12, to Taylor. She recalled how when she went to accept the Smarties Silver Award for the book, Naidoo heard the news of Taylor's death on his way home from Peckham Library, a relevant area in the novel. As a result, she organised an ongoing donation of 10p to the Refugee Council from every book sold. Writer Stephen Kelman was nominated for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his debut novel Pigeon English, inspired in part by the Taylor killing.
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Kowalski's eyesight is not the best in the world, and he needs to put on his glasses in order to use a gun with any degree of effectiveness. He prefers not to wear his glasses because he doesn't like how he looks with them, but he is an excellent shot when he does wear them. Kowalski also likes to put the Canadian version of Smarties into his coffee and likes to dance, something he used to do with Stella. Since the divorce he has taken fancy to a few women, but nothing serious has really happened.
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As with the previous two books in the series, Prisoner of Azkaban won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Medal for children aged 9–11 and made the top of the New York Times Best Seller list. In both cases, it was the last in the series to do so. However, in the latter case, a Children's Best Sellers list was created just before the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in July 2000 in order to free up more room on the original list. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 24 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
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Kit's Wilderness is a children's novel by David Almond, published by Hodder Children's Books in 1999. It is set in a fictional English town in the northeast of the country and was based on the former coal-mining towns the author knew as a child growing up in Tyne and Wear. It was silver runner-up for the Smarties Prize in ages category 9–11 years, highly commended for the Carnegie Medal, and shortlisted for the Guardian Prize. In the U.S. it was published by Delacorte Press in 2000 and won the Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, recognising the year's best book for young adults.
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The logo that was introduced consisted of a stylized 'M' meant to look, as the design firm put it, "deliberately chubby, very welcoming, like a comfy chair." However, the logo received much negative criticism for its "patchwork of hot pink, tangerine, rhubarb, turquoise and green apple", that was viewed as childish in implement and likened to clown paint, Smarties, jelly beans, garbage and even vomit. Public sentiment grew increasingly negative when it was discovered the cost of the ill-received design was $1,487,000 paid out from the public fund. Montreal itself continues to use the 1981 logo, and even Greater Montreal has since dropped the design they themselves introduced.
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They don't always agree and the debates can become quite heated but they have remained good friends. Following these discussions, Paul normally writes a first draft, which Chris will edit or rewrite before Paul produces a final draft. As well as The Edge Chronicles, Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell have also collaborated on a trilogy of shorter adventures, Freelance; a quartet of younger books, The Far Flung Adventures, the first of which, Fergus Crane, won the Nestle Smarties Gold Prize in 2004; The Blobheads series (2000–2004); Muddle Earth (2003), and a further quartet, Barnaby Grimes (2007–2009). Their latest novel, Wyrmweald, was published by Doubleday Children's Books in April 2010.
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A pivotal moment comes in 1877, when a ditchdigger pays him with an 1875 US dime, which is useless as currency in 19th century Glasgow; he only notices what sort of coin he's been given after the man has left. Enraged, Scrooge vows to never be taken advantage of again, to be "sharper than the sharpies and smarter than the smarties." He takes a position as cabin boy on a Clyde cattle ship to the United States to make his fortune at the age of 13. In 1898, after many adventures, he finally ends up in Klondike, where he finds a golden rock the size of a goose's egg.
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Avidia Bank was named the 2017 Digital Edge 50 Award winner for how it promoted the launch of its Cardless Cash initiative. The Bank is known for its use of brand advocacy with employees, the Avidia Smarties and has been noted as having one of the top 35 banking websites across the globe. Avidia Bank was recognized by FIS in their 2019 Innovation Awards \- for its use of FIS APIs and the NYCE payment network to speed settlement of payments for merchant processors. Avidia’s solution, called Instant Merchant Settlement, has helped its merchant customers enhance liquidity, while also providing the bank with a new source of fee income.
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Jenny Nimmo (born 15 January 1944) is a British author of children's books, including many fantasy and adventure novels, chapter books, and picture books. Born in England, she has lived mostly in Wales for forty years. She is probably best known for two series of fantasy novels: The Magician Trilogy (1986–1989), contemporary stories rooted in Welsh myth, and Children of the Red King (2002–2010), featuring schoolchildren endowed with magical powers. The Snow Spider, first of the Magician books, won the second annual Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the 1987 Tir na n-Og Award as the year's best originally English-language book with an authentic Welsh background.
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In 1989, Blitzcat was named winner of the Smarties Book Prize in the 9 – 11 years category. In 1994, the American Library Association named Blitzcat as one of their 100 Best Books for Young Adults of the previous 25 years. Publishers Weekly wrote "Sensitive readers will realize at once that the story of Lord Gort is one of those tales that, once begun, demands to be finished." and "Each of these glimpses of men and women in wartime is as perfect as a pearl; Lord Gort's journey is the single black thread on which the precious beads are strung." It has been studied at school and appears on reading lists.
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Crossley-Holland won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, recognising the best children's book by an author who has not yet won it. Exceptionally the 2001 Prize covered new publications during 21 months 2000–2001 as the schedule was re-aligned with the preceding school year rather than calendar year. The Welsh Tir na n-Og Award recognised The Seeing Stone as the year's best English-language book for young people with "authentic Welsh background". The Seeing Stone was bronze runner up for the Smarties Prize in ages category 9–11 years and it made the 2000 Whitbread Awards children's book shortlist.
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While some flavours succeeded, many failed, alienating some consumers in the process, causing Nestlé to scale back on new releases. In September 2006, Nestlé announced that they would be cutting 645 jobs in their York factory and moving all Smarties production to their Hamburg factory, which had already been producing two-thirds. They stated that this move would allow for a £20 million investment to modernise the antiquated York factory and improve Kit Kat production. As dark chocolate has seen increased demand and favour worldwide because of its purported health benefits, in September 2006 the four-finger Kit Kat Fine Dark was launched in the United Kingdom as a permanent product, and packaging for the entire brand was changed.
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She also write scripts for EastEnders, Doctors(TV series), The Real McCoy and Brothers and Sisters. In 1989 the company Temba staged her play 'Back Street Mammy, which explored adolescent sexuality and the dilemmas of unplanned pregnancy. In Running Dream a woman returns to Dominica to find both differences and close ties between her and the sisters she left behind there. Both plays use a chorus to comment on the action. Cooke's children's book So Much (1994) won the 0–5 category of the Smarties Book Prize, the She/WH Smith’s Under-Fives Book Prize and the Kurt Maschler Award. It was also Highly Commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal and was shortlisted for both the Sheffield Children’s Book Award and the Nottinghamshire Children’s Book Award.
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Ann Turnbull (born 1943) is a British writer of fiction for children and young adults. Her work includes a picture book, set in a Shropshire mining town during the Great Depression of the 1930s which is about a young girl named Mary Dyer, and No Shame, No Fear, a novel for young adults that depicts the persecution of Quakers during the 1660s, and is set in both Shropshire and London and was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize . Pigeon Summer was nominated for the Nestle Smarties Book Prize and No Shame, No Fear was nominated for the Whitbread Book Award. She has written a number of picture books but the best known is The Sand Horse which is illustrated by Michael Foreman.
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An unspecified time later, Rix was hired by the BBC to write and produce comedy, such as Radio Active, The Michael Bentine Show, The Wow Show, and The History of Rock for BBC Radio 4, and, for television, Alas Smith and Jones. The Spaghetti Man would be included in Rix debut book Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, which was published in 1990 by André Deutsch. Its popularity led to a Smarties Prize Children's Choice Award and three sequels: Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids (1992), Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids (1996), and More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids (2001), followed by a revived book series in 2007, now named Grizzly Tales: Cautionary Tales for Lovers of Squeam!. These were later adapted into two award-winning television animation series.
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Crossley-Holland was awarded the 1985 Carnegie Medal and 2007 "Anniversary Top Ten" recognition from British librarians for Storm (Heinemann, 1984). For Arthur: The Seeing Stone he won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime award judged by a panel of British children's writers and the Tir na n-Og Award from the Welsh Books Council. The two annual awards for young people's books recognise one fiction published in the U.K., written by an author who has not yet won it, and the best English-language book with "authentic Welsh background". The Seeing Stone was also bronze runner up for the Smarties Prize in ages category 9–11 years and it made the 2000 Whitbread Awards shortlist.
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Wendy Boase (14 October 1944 – 15 March 1999) born in Melbourne, Australia, she was one of the co-founders of the children's publishing company Walker Books. She held the position of editorial director of Walker Books until her death in 1999 from cancer. After her death Julia Eccleshare (Children's Book Editor of the Guardian newspaper and chairman of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize) and Anne Marley (Head of Children's, Youth & Schools Services for Hampshire Library & Information Service) decided to create an annual award named the Branford Boase Award in commemoration of both Wendy Boase and her colleague Henrietta Branford who also died of cancer the same year. Wendy Boase helped Henrietta Branford to write the novel Fire, Bed, and Bone which won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
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Other tracks included a Williams conflation of Spanish folk tunes, a Fry-penned tuned percussion piece, a cover of Curved Air's "Vivaldi", Peek's Arabic-influenced "Sahara", the psychedelic faux-Spanish folk dance "Hotta", and several cheerful Flowers compositions including his tuba showcase "Tuba Smarties" and "Scipio" (which Flowers described as "the first piece of music to have Parts I & II running simultaneously."). In 1980, the BBC produced the television series Great Railway Journeys of the World which included an episode set in Australia. The music for this programme was by Sky, featuring tracks from the first two albums. Following further tours of Australia and the UK, Francis Monkman left the band in 1980 to concentrate on his own projects (having scored success with his soundtrack to the film The Long Good Friday).
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Christian Birmingham is a British illustrator and artist who has worked with children's writers including the Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo, on books including Whitbread Children's Book of the Year The Wreck of the Zanzibar and Smarties Prize winner The Butterfly Lion. He was also shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler Award and Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration. Birmingham graduated from Exeter College of Art and Design in 1991 with a first-class honours degree in Graphic Design (illustration). He won his first book illustration contract soon after leaving college and has since worked with major British and American publishers on titles including the centenary picturebook edition of C. S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and Clement C. Moore's classic poem The Night Before Christmas (which has sold more than 1.5 million copies).
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In 1978, the Hershey contract was renegotiated, giving Hershey the rights to the Kit Kat and Rolo brands in the US in perpetuity. Kenneth Dixon was appointed as chairman and chief executive in 1981. Between 1981 and 1987, Rowntree invested nearly £400 million in upgrading its manufacturing facilities and developing high-volume, product- dedicated equipment for several of the company's leading global brands, including Kit Kat, After Eights, and Smarties. Between 1983 and 1987, Rowntree spent nearly £400 million on acquisitions, including Tom's Foods for £138 million (1983), Laura Secord Chocolates for £19 million (1983), Hot Sam Pretzels for £14 million (1986), the Sunmark confectionery business in the US for £156 million (1986), and Gale's honey for £11 million (1986). Between 1982 and 1987, the number of UK staff was reduced from 19,700 to 15,600.
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Chris Wooding (born 28 February 1977) is a British writer born in Leicester, and now living in London. His first book, Crashing, which he wrote at the age of nineteen, was published in 1998 when he was twenty-one. Since then he has written many more, including The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, which was silver runner-up for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, and Poison, which won the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year. He is also the author of three different, completed series; Broken Sky, an anime-influenced fantasy serial for children, Braided Path, a fantasy trilogy for adults, and Malice, a young adult fantasy that mixes graphic novel with the traditional novel; as well as another, four-part series, Tales of the Ketty Jay, a steampunk sci-fi fantasy for adults.
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Ridley also started his own theatre group as a student, acting in many of the productions, and made several short art films. Work in Literature Ridley has written three books for adults; Crocodilia (1988), In the Eyes of Mr. Fury (1989), and Flamingoes in Orbit (1990). His children's novels include Mercedes Ice (1989), Dakota of the White Flats (1989), Krindlekrax (1991) winner of both the Smarties Prize and the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Book Award, Meteorite Spoon (1994), Kasper in the Glitter (1994) nominated for the Whitbread Prize, Scribbleboy (1997) shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, Zinderzunder (1998), Vinegar Street (2000), Mighty Fizz Chilla (2002) shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award and Zip's Apollo (2005). He also has written two short stories for younger children, Dreamboat Zing (1996) and The Hooligan's Shampoo (1996).
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Following a success with a British version of Candid Microphone on Radio Luxembourg, Routh started a British version of its television successor Candid Camera around 1961 for ABC TV. Following a long dispute with the American lawyers of Allen Funt as to who held the rights to Candid Camera, Routh moved on to new fields, working with John Birt, later director general of the BBC, for Granada TV, along with Germaine Greer and Kenny Everett in Nice Time. He also worked in television advertising on spots such as J. Walter Thompson's for Smarties and Kellogg's Corn flakes, appearing also in some spots himself, for example Newcastle Brown Ale. The British version of Candid Camera returned along in 1974, starring Peter Dulay, Arthur Atkins and Sheila Bernette. In 1976, Routh returned to the pranks and the show was retitled Jonathan Routh & Candid Camera.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth book in the Harry Potter series. The first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was first published by Bloomsbury in 1997, with an initial print-run of 500 copies in hardback, 300 of which were distributed to libraries. By the end of 1997, the UK edition won a National Book Award and a gold medal in the 9- to 11-year-olds category of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was originally published in the UK on 2 July 1998 and in the US on 2 June 1999. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was then published a year later in the UK on 8 July 1999 and in the US on 8 September 1999.
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Francis replied to his critics' restrictions in his usually vitriolic fashion by calling them "smarties who adopt the blurbs of foreign books [as their own] in order to make themselves a career [...] the plague of university professors in Brazil is more serious than the Black Death in the Middle Ages"Veja, issue 570. August 8, 1979. Francis was also criticized for an alleged lack of depth in his political and cultural commentaries and confusion arising from his attempt at melding the Joycean stream of consciousness with the plot of a spy thriller: in the words of a paper critic for Folha de S.Paulo, Vinicius Torres Filho, for producing in his novels something like "a watered-down Graham Greene", expressing a Cold War obsession at displaying a supposedly intellectual sophistication by seeing political issues in terms of conspiracies and spies.Torres Freire, "Super-homens".
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"Grint will play the title role of Clyde, the well-meaning and sweet yet slightly neurotic guy who never feels like he really fits in. The avid comic book reader considers himself a borderline agoraphobic with mild to severe anxiety issues who wishes he were a super hero himself. When Clyde inherits a $100,000 a month inheritance from his long-dead eccentric Uncle Bill, he decides that the cash will be his secret super power and will use it only for good and reward the good-hearted." In July 2013, it was confirmed that Grint will be making his stage debut in Jez Butterworth's second run of his black comedy, Mojo, playing the role as a minor hood called Sweets who pops amphetamines like Smarties and does a sort of double act, full of comic menace.
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The Gruffalo was an immediate success, going on to win several awards, including the Smarties Prize (1999). It has subsequently been translated into more than 40 languages, sold over 10 million copies worldwide, and has given rise to stage and screen productions by Tall Stories and Magic Light Pictures. The Gruffalo was followed by more Donaldson/Scheffler publications by Macmillan: Monkey Puzzle (2000), Room on the Broom (2001), The Smartest Giant in Town (2002), The Snail and the Whale (2003), The Gruffalo's Child, featuring an only child Gruffalo with a wooden stick doll plus the original cast of Gruffalo, Mouse, Fox, Snake and Owl (2004), and Charlie Cook's Favourite Book (2005). In 2006 Scheffler moved to Alison Green Books who published the duo's Tiddler (2007), Stick Man (inspired by the Gruffalo's Child's toy) (2008), Tabby McTat (2009), Zog (2010), The Highway Rat (2011), Superworm (2012) and The Scarecrows' Wedding (2014).
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From figurative painting and installation, to illustration and picture-book making, his work has been exhibited in New York, The Brooklyn Museum, Berlin, Dublin, London, Sydney, Washington, D.C., and Belfast. He is widely known for his picture books for children, published by HarperCollins UK and Penguin US. How to Catch a Star debuted in 2004 to critical acclaim, and Lost and Found (2005) won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Medal 2006, the Blue Peter Book Award 2006 and was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal the same year. The Incredible Book Eating Boy (2007) won the Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, and his fourth Book The Way Back Home was released in September 2007 and The Great Paper Caper was released in September 2008. Stuck & This Moose Belongs to Me were both on The New York Times Best Seller list.
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The novels have won a number of awards, including the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 2002 for Mortal Engines and the 2006 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction for A Darkling Plain. A companion piece entitled The Traction Codex was released in 2011, and was expanded into The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines by Reeve and Jeremy Levett, which was published in 2018. Additionally, a collection of short stories set before the series called Night Flights was published the same year. Also, a prequel series, Fever Crumb, set 600 years before the events of the Quartet, was published between 2009 and 2011. In March 2020 Reeve said "too much time has passed since I wrote the other books, it’s hard to go back to that world" and that he did not intend to publish further books in the series.
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Binch began working as a children's book illustrator in 1987, illustrating Therese Pouyanne's book Hippo. Since then, she has gone on to illustrate 23 books. Binch attended Salford Technical College where she majored in graphic design. She has been commended or highly commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal three times: for Gregory Cool in 1995,Liz Gill, The Times Features section p37, 10 July 1995, and Down by the River in 1997.Kate Greenaway Medal The Guardian Education section, p5 27 May 27, 1997 She was also shortlisted for the Greenaway award with Silver Shoes in 2001.Shortlist: The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2001 She was co-winner of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (age 0-5) for Hue Boy,The Independent Sunday Review p38, 4 December 1993 which was also on the New York Times list of the ten best illustrated children's books that year,The Year's Best Illustrated Books and has been twice short-listed for the Sheffield Children's Book Prize.
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David Ian Roberts (born 8 May 1970) is a British children's illustrator. He has illustrated a large number of books in both black and white and colour. His black and white work mainly features in books for older readers and he has worked with such well-known authors as Philip Ardagh (on the Eddie Dickens and Unlikely Exploits series), G.P. Taylor (on the Mariah Mundi series), Chris Priestley (on the Tales of Terror series), Mick Jackson (on Ten Sorry Tales and The Bears of England), Susan Price (on the Olly Spellmaker series), Jon Blake (on the Stinky Finger series) and Tom Baker (on The Boy Who Kicked Pigs). Mouse Noses on Toast by Daren King won the Nestle Smarties Book Prize (ages 6–8 years) in 2006, after which King and Roberts collaborated on other titles including Peter the Penguin Pioneer, Sensible Hare and the Case of Carrots and The Frightfully Friendly Ghosties series.
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The Harry Potter series has been recognised by a host of awards since the initial publication of Philosopher's Stone including four Whitaker Platinum Book Awards (all of which were awarded in 2001), three Nestlé Smarties Book Prizes (1997–1999), two Scottish Arts Council Book Awards (1999 and 2001), the inaugural Whitbread children's book of the year award (1999), the WHSmith book of the year (2006), among others. In 2000, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel, and in 2001, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire won said award. Honours include a commendation for the Carnegie Medal (1997), a short listing for the Guardian Children's Award (1998), and numerous listings on the notable books, editors' Choices, and best books lists of the American Library Association, The New York Times, Chicago Public Library, and Publishers Weekly. In 2002, sociologist Andrew Blake named Harry Potter a British pop culture icon along with the likes of James Bond and Sherlock Holmes.
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Mackintosh produced Rolo, Munchies, Caramac and Quality Street. The Yorkie and Lion chocolate bars were introduced in 1976. In 1978 the Hershey contract was renegotiated, giving Hershey the rights to the Kit Kat and Rolo brands in the US in perpetuity. Kenneth Dixon was appointed as chairman and chief executive in 1981. Between 1981 and 1987, Rowntree invested nearly £400 million in upgrading its manufacturing facilities and developing high volume, product dedicated equipment for several of the company's leading global brands, including Kit Kat, After Eights and Smarties. Between 1983 and 1987, Rowntree spent nearly £400 million on acquisitions, including Tom's Foods for £138 million (1983), Laura Secord Chocolates for £19 million (1983), Hot Sam Pretzels for £14 million (1986), the Sunmark confectionery business in the US for £156 million (1986) and Gale's honey for £11 million (1986). Between 1982 and 1987, the number of UK staff was reduced from 19,700 to 15,600. In 1987 Rowntree operated 25 factories in nine countries and employed 33,000 people, including close to 16,000 in its eight UK operations.
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The Fire Engines comprise David (Davy) Henderson (vocals/guitar), Murray Slade (guitar), Graham Main (bass), and Russell Burn (drums), the band name inspired by a 13th Floor Elevators song.Ankeny, Jason "Fire Engines Biography", Allmusic, retrieved 22 June 2012Strong, Martin C. (2003) The Great Indie Discography, Canongate, , p. 332-3 Henderson, Main, and Burn had previously been members of The Dirty Reds, along with Russell Burn's brother Tam Dean Burn,Buckley, Peter (2003) "The Fire Engines", in The Rough Guide to Rock, Rough Guides, , p. 373-4 while Slade had played in Station Six. The Fire Engines' debut release was the "Get Up And Use Me"/"Everything's Roses" single, released on manager Angus Groovy's Codex Communications label in 1980; The band had recorded their entire set twice in a Fife bungalow with producer Wilf Smarties, at a cost of £46, with these two tracks selected for release.Reekie, Innes (2012) "Post Punk heroes the Fire Engines", Louder Than War, 6 January 2012, retrieved 22 June 2012 "Get Up and Use Me" was given 'Single of the Week' in both NME and Sounds.
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They also pass somewhat weird comments at each other just to prove their own selves right, which in reality does not happen and they have to accept the fact that some one else can also be much more smarter than them in doing plannings and making them face the reality, where earlier they think that people around them are good but not the best, it then dawns upon them later that they are best than them too. The story finally shows the mental state of the smarties when their lie comes to an end and they are caught in a cat and mouse situation, where they feel awkward, funny, but great after all the ruckus comes to an end and the confusing situation that was seeming to them as difficult to handle, also takes a clear and a happy turn, and then they realize the value of some who are actually true but only to set a right track for people like them they timely turn their true self and not for any wrong intention, the satire of the whole story then takes a pleasing and a final turn.
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Eye Hub was established to offer customers everything in one place, including optometry expertise, advanced scanning technology, friendly informed service, on site labs, innovative interactive testing environments and a dedicated eye health learning zone 2011 – 2013 - OPSM rolled out to all stores OPTOS Ultra-Wide Digital Retinal Scans, (UWDRS), which was an exclusive leading-edge eyecare technology at that time 2014 - to raise awareness of children's eye health and improve the vision of children across Australia, OPSM released Penny the Pirate - the world's first free children's eye screening book and mobile phone app 2016 - Penny the Pirate app collected more than 100 awards including Best in show and three Golds at the recent Smarties mobile awards in Australia. Other awards include; APAC Effie Awards, AMES, Cannes Lions, Cannes Lions Health, CLIO Awards, Effie, IPA Best of Health, Spikes Asia and Webbys 2017 - marked the 85th anniversary of the brands foundation REFURBISHMENT PROGRAM In 2016, Luxottica launched a project to define a new, improved store design for OPSM. This project was aimed to make the customer experience central to the purchasing process with more support from digital instruments. The number of optometrist consultancy rooms were also increased.
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