Blue Peter viewers can vote for the best children's book of the last decade. The shortlist is made up of the 10 bestselling children's fiction books of the last 10 years, with authors only appearing once:
Alex Rider Mission 3: Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
Candyfloss by Jacqueline Wilson, illustrated by Nick Sharratt
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling
Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend by Francesca Simon, illustrated by Tony Ross
Mr Stink by David Walliams, illustrated by Quentin Blake
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
The Series of Unfortunate Events: Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket
Theodore Boone by John Grisham
Young Bond: SilverFin ─ A James Bond Adventure by Charlie Higson
More details on Blue Peter's website For the next three weeks, until 23 February, children under 16 can log on with their BBC iD and vote for their favourite.The winning book will be announced on Blue Peter on 1 March, on a special show tied in with World Book Day. The Blue Peter Book of the Year Award winner will also be revealed.
02 February 2012
29 January 2012
Author Visit 9 February
Each year the Librarians of the three independent schools in Abingdon organise an author visit, and take turns at hosting the event. This year we have two writers, Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore, better known as 'The Two Steves'. All of Year 7 will enjoy hearing this entertaining duo on Thursday 9 February.
05 January 2012
Costa Book Awards
The Costa Category Winners have been announced ahead of the overall winner later this month.
The Children's category has been won by Blood Red Road by Moira Young, a story set in the future where the main character is searching for her kidnapped twin brother.
This year's Novel Award winner is Andrew Miller for his sixth book, Pure, about a young engineer charged with demolishing a Paris cemetery in 1785. Matthew Hollis has won the Biography Award with Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas. Carol Ann Duffy's has won the Poetry Award for The Bees, her first collection of new poems since becoming Poet Laureate. Christie Watson's Tiny Sunbirds Far Away won the First Novel category.
Each category winner receives, £5,000, with the Book of the Year taking the £30,000 prize.
More information
24 January - The Costa Book of the Year was won by Andrew Miller for Pure.
The Children's category has been won by Blood Red Road by Moira Young, a story set in the future where the main character is searching for her kidnapped twin brother.
This year's Novel Award winner is Andrew Miller for his sixth book, Pure, about a young engineer charged with demolishing a Paris cemetery in 1785. Matthew Hollis has won the Biography Award with Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas. Carol Ann Duffy's has won the Poetry Award for The Bees, her first collection of new poems since becoming Poet Laureate. Christie Watson's Tiny Sunbirds Far Away won the First Novel category.
Each category winner receives, £5,000, with the Book of the Year taking the £30,000 prize.
More information
24 January - The Costa Book of the Year was won by Andrew Miller for Pure.
21 November 2011
OLA House of Books
This exciting installation by the Art Department was developed from an initial idea by the Library and involved the whole school in creating a structure made of books. Inspired by the work of prize-winning Canadians Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, who exhibited at Modern Art Oxford in 2009, OLA's construction is made of old books many of them individually wrapped. Each contributor has labelled their parcel (an old book) with details of their favourite book and a one-word description.
16 November 2011
Recent book news
The Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011 has been won by Andy Mulligan for Return to Ribblestrop
The Roald Dahl Funny Prize
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates by Liz Pichon is the winner of the seven to fourteen category, and the first in a series of books about Tom, an expert doodler and master of excuses.
Cats Ahoy! written by Peter Bently and illustrated by Jim Field, a rhyming picture book about pirate cats, won the funniest book for children aged six and under. Both category winners receive a prize of £2500.
The Costa Book Awards 2011
The shortlists for best novel, best first novel, best biography, best poetry collection and best children's book have been announced. Costa Children’s Book Award shortlist:
Flip by Martyn Bedford
The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Small Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans
Blood Red Road by Moira Young.
The Costa Book Awards recognises some of the most enjoyable books of the year by writers based in the UK and Ireland. Judges will name each category winner on 4 January. The winner in each category receives £5000, and then one of the five winning books is selected as the overall Costa Book of the Year, to be announced on 24 January. The winner will receive £30,000.
The Roald Dahl Funny Prize
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates by Liz Pichon is the winner of the seven to fourteen category, and the first in a series of books about Tom, an expert doodler and master of excuses.
Cats Ahoy! written by Peter Bently and illustrated by Jim Field, a rhyming picture book about pirate cats, won the funniest book for children aged six and under. Both category winners receive a prize of £2500.
The Costa Book Awards 2011
The shortlists for best novel, best first novel, best biography, best poetry collection and best children's book have been announced. Costa Children’s Book Award shortlist:
Flip by Martyn Bedford
The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Small Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans
Blood Red Road by Moira Young.
The Costa Book Awards recognises some of the most enjoyable books of the year by writers based in the UK and Ireland. Judges will name each category winner on 4 January. The winner in each category receives £5000, and then one of the five winning books is selected as the overall Costa Book of the Year, to be announced on 24 January. The winner will receive £30,000.
18 October 2011
Book awards round up
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize shortlist for 2011
My Name Is Mina, by David Almond
Return to Ribblestrop, by Andy Mulligan
Moon Pie, by Simon Mason
Twilight Robbery, by Frances Hardinge
The winner will be announced on Thursday 10 November. Established in 1967, the Guardian children's fiction prize is the only children's prize to be judged by writers. This year's judges are Julia Eccleshare, Michelle Paver, Julia Golding and Marcus Sedgwick. Previous winners include Alan Garner, Joan Aiken, Ted Hughes, Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson.
Richard and Judy’s Children’s Christmas Book Club 2011 is made up of twelve titles for mixed age groups and includes old and new favourites:
* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Pop-Up Book, Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake
* Dear Zoo Noisy Book, Rod Campbell
* Egyptology, Emily Sands, Dugald Steer, Nick Harris and Helen Ward
* Farmyard Tales Wind-up Tractor Book, Stephen Cartwright
* Happy Christmas Boris!, Sam Lloyd
* The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters, Janet Ahlberg and Allan Ahlberg,
* Monstersaurus, Claire Freedman and Ben Cort
* Snuggle Bunny, Emma Goldhawk and Jon Lambert
* Paddington's Cookery Book, Michael Bond and R.W. Alley
* Pippi Longstocking Gift Edition, Astrid Lindgren and Lauren Child
* Puss in Boots, Stella Gurney
* See Inside: Noisy Castles, Katie Daynes and David Hancock
Further information
Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011 shortlists
The Funniest Book for Children Aged Seven to Fourteen:
* Animal Tales by Terry Jones, illustrated by Michael Foreman
* The Brilliant World of Tom Gates by Liz Pichon
* The Get Rich Quick Club by Rose Impey
* Letters from an Alien Schoolboy by Ros Asquith
* Penny Dreadful is a Magnet for Disaster by Joanna Nadin, illustrated by Jess Mikhail
* The Wrong Pong by Steven Butler, illustrated by Chris Fisher
The Funniest Book for Children Aged Six and Under:
* Bedtime for Monsters by Ed Vere
* Cats Ahoy! by Peter Bently, illustrated by Jim Field
* First Week at Cow School by Andy Cutbill, illustrated by Russell Ayto
* Limelight Larry by Leigh Hodgkinson
* Marshall Armstrong is New to Our School by David Mackintosh
* A Place to Call Home by Alexis Deacon, illustrated by Viviane Schwarz
Forward Prize
Poet John Burnside has been named the winner of the £10,000 Forward Prize for his collection Black Cat Bone. The Scottish writer has been nominated for this prize four times. "Burnside's Black Cat Bone is at once a very direct and a very subtle book," said Sir Andrew Motion, chairman of the judging panel. The Forward Prizes were founded in 1992 and reward both established and up-and-coming poets. Irish poet Seamus Heaney received last year's prize for his collection, Human Chain.
Wales' first Young People's Laureate
Catherine Fisher, an award-winning author of fantasy novels for children, is named Wales' first Young People's Laureate. Specialising in myth and history, Fisher's futuristic novel Incarceron is available from the school Library.
My Name Is Mina, by David Almond
Return to Ribblestrop, by Andy Mulligan
Moon Pie, by Simon Mason
Twilight Robbery, by Frances Hardinge
The winner will be announced on Thursday 10 November. Established in 1967, the Guardian children's fiction prize is the only children's prize to be judged by writers. This year's judges are Julia Eccleshare, Michelle Paver, Julia Golding and Marcus Sedgwick. Previous winners include Alan Garner, Joan Aiken, Ted Hughes, Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson.
Richard and Judy’s Children’s Christmas Book Club 2011 is made up of twelve titles for mixed age groups and includes old and new favourites:
* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Pop-Up Book, Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake
* Dear Zoo Noisy Book, Rod Campbell
* Egyptology, Emily Sands, Dugald Steer, Nick Harris and Helen Ward
* Farmyard Tales Wind-up Tractor Book, Stephen Cartwright
* Happy Christmas Boris!, Sam Lloyd
* The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters, Janet Ahlberg and Allan Ahlberg,
* Monstersaurus, Claire Freedman and Ben Cort
* Snuggle Bunny, Emma Goldhawk and Jon Lambert
* Paddington's Cookery Book, Michael Bond and R.W. Alley
* Pippi Longstocking Gift Edition, Astrid Lindgren and Lauren Child
* Puss in Boots, Stella Gurney
* See Inside: Noisy Castles, Katie Daynes and David Hancock
Further information
Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011 shortlists
The Funniest Book for Children Aged Seven to Fourteen:
* Animal Tales by Terry Jones, illustrated by Michael Foreman
* The Brilliant World of Tom Gates by Liz Pichon
* The Get Rich Quick Club by Rose Impey
* Letters from an Alien Schoolboy by Ros Asquith
* Penny Dreadful is a Magnet for Disaster by Joanna Nadin, illustrated by Jess Mikhail
* The Wrong Pong by Steven Butler, illustrated by Chris Fisher
The Funniest Book for Children Aged Six and Under:
* Bedtime for Monsters by Ed Vere
* Cats Ahoy! by Peter Bently, illustrated by Jim Field
* First Week at Cow School by Andy Cutbill, illustrated by Russell Ayto
* Limelight Larry by Leigh Hodgkinson
* Marshall Armstrong is New to Our School by David Mackintosh
* A Place to Call Home by Alexis Deacon, illustrated by Viviane Schwarz
Forward Prize
Poet John Burnside has been named the winner of the £10,000 Forward Prize for his collection Black Cat Bone. The Scottish writer has been nominated for this prize four times. "Burnside's Black Cat Bone is at once a very direct and a very subtle book," said Sir Andrew Motion, chairman of the judging panel. The Forward Prizes were founded in 1992 and reward both established and up-and-coming poets. Irish poet Seamus Heaney received last year's prize for his collection, Human Chain.
Wales' first Young People's Laureate
Catherine Fisher, an award-winning author of fantasy novels for children, is named Wales' first Young People's Laureate. Specialising in myth and history, Fisher's futuristic novel Incarceron is available from the school Library.
13 October 2011
OLA Visitor Theresa Breslin wins Young Quills prize
OLA Visitor Theresa Breslin has won the Young Quills prize for historical fiction. Organised and awarded by the Historical Association and introduced two years ago in recognition of the important role fiction can play in introducing children and young people to history, the Young Quills are shortlisted by young people. Only historical fiction from the previous 12 months directly aimed at children and teenagers are included.
The winner in the teenage section (12+) is Prisoner of the Inquisition by Theresa Breslin, who was one of the guests at our recent OLA Reading Festival. The book is set in Spain during the fifteenth century, and had already been shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal. The winner in the primary section (under 12 years ) for this year is ‘The Sacred Scarab’ by Gill Harvey, set in Ancient Egypt.
The winner in the teenage section (12+) is Prisoner of the Inquisition by Theresa Breslin, who was one of the guests at our recent OLA Reading Festival. The book is set in Spain during the fifteenth century, and had already been shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal. The winner in the primary section (under 12 years ) for this year is ‘The Sacred Scarab’ by Gill Harvey, set in Ancient Egypt.
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