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''The New Policeman'' is a children's fantasy novel by Kate Thompson, published by Bodley Head in 2005. Set in Kinvara, Ireland, it features a teenage boy, J. J. Liddy, who learns that "time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies".〔WorldCat. 2012-08-01.〕 It inaugurated a series that is sometimes called Liddy.〔 Thompson and ''The New Policeman'' won two important annual awards, the Whitbread Children's Book Award〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=THE WHITBREAD BOOK AWARDS )〕 and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2005 )〕 The novel also won the inaugural Irish BA Award for Children's Books in 2006.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The New Policeman )〕 HarperCollins published the first U.S. edition under its Greenwillow Books imprint in February 2007.〔〔 A Chinese-language edition was published in 2008 with illustrations and music.〔 (''Xun zhao shi jian de ren'' ) (first Chinese edition). WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-08-01.〕 ==Series== There are three novels in the Liddy series, summing more than 1100 pages in their first editions.〔 * ''The New Policeman'' (Bodley Head, May 2005, 0-370-32823-X) * ''The Last of the High Kings'' (Bodley Head, June 2007, 0-370-32925-2) * ''The White Horse Trick'' (Red Fox, April 2010, 978-1-86230-941-8) As of September 2011, HarperCollins/Greenwillow has published U.S. editions of all three. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The New Policeman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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