1973 Whitbread Awards
Appearance
Children's Book
Winner:
- Alan Aldridge, illustrator, and William Plomer, poet, The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
Plomer adapted an 1802 poem by William Roscoe, The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast.
Novel
Winner:
Biography
Winner:
- John Wilson, CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman