Cerealously Creative!!

Cerealously Creative!!

This was a launch like no other! That's because on a normal, but somewhat dull, overcast Monday, moods were lifted, excitement accelerated and colour injected into the proceedings as, in amongst flying hoops and whoops of anticipation, 'Cereal Killers,' a new ebook and print book, the result of The Great Kindle Relay Project, was launched!

This book is a cerealously entertaining collaboration between children's author, Simon Cheshire, Birmingham Library Staff and 133 young writers from Birmingham local secondary schools. In the words of Simon, 'here is a story that's got the lot: mystery, adventure, war, terror, laughs, romance, tragedy, intrigue and suspense. And milk. And an emo haircut.'


Buy your copy of Cereal Killers from Amazon

Blue Peter Book Awards 2012

Latest update 'The winners of the Blue Peter Book of the Year and the Best Children’s Book of the Last 10 Years have been announced'

The nation's children have voted Diary of a Wimpy Kid by American author Jeff Kinney as Blue Peter's Best Children's Book of the Last 10 Years, beating J K Rowling's boy wizard to the top spot in a special online vote. After three weeks of voting on a shortlist of 10 iconic children's titles at bbc.co.uk/bluepeter, the comic story of hapless Greg emerged as the winner.

South London author Gareth P Jones will also be howling with excitement to learn that his werewolf mystery The Considine Curse has triumphed to win the accolade of Blue Peter Book of the Year. Over 300 school pupils between age eight and 12 from across the UK read all four shortlisted books before voting Gareth's as their favourite. Find out more about the pupils who took part, including photos and video footage

Both winners were announced and awarded their trophies on Blue Peter on 1 March (5.45pm, CBBC) in a special World Book Day edition of the programme which was broadcast live from the John Rylands library in Manchester.

Love Reading

     

The Book Awards category on Lovereading4kids will help you and your child discover authors currently in contention for and/or winners of the most prestigious awards. By their very presence on this page, you can be sure that each of the books featured here is the 'crème-de-la-crème' of today's children's literature.
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STOP PRESS - The long-running West End musical Wicked is proud to announce the third year of its hugely successful Wicked Young Writers’ Award.  Spearheaded by author of War Horse and former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo, the Award recognises excellence in writing, encourages creativity, and helps develop writing talent in young people between 5 and 25 years of age from all backgrounds and areas of the UK.  Young people from across the UK and Northern Ireland are free to submit entries to enter a piece of writing on a theme or subject of their choice, written at home or at school.  Teachers are encouraged to enter writing on behalf of pupils through a schools’ entry form and online Teachers’ Resource featuring exclusive video tips for inspiring and encouraging writing in the classroom. Closing date for entries is 31st July 2012 so tell the kids about it now. A shortlist of 100 finalists will be announced in the autumn of 2012, followed by a special showcase of the winners’ entries at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre, home of the award-winning musical.  Get involved at WickedYoungWriters.com
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