When she asks for a book, he shows her an older writing – his own stonemason's emblem carved in rock deep within Alderley Edge and dating back countless centuries.
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Among Garner's works, The Stone Book is the tenth most widely held (catalogued) in WorldCat participating libraries.
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The story won the 1996 Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association as the best English-language children's book that did not gain a major award when it was originally published twenty years earlier.
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