The 2007 Costa Book Awards Shortlists have been announced. The winners of the five categories will be revealed on 22 January, and the overall winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2007.
The shortlists:
Costa Children's Book Award
* The Bower Bird by Ann Kelley
* Crusade by Elizabeth Laird
* What I Was by Meg Rosoff
* Blood Red Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick
Costa First Novel Award
* A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
* Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
* What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
* Mosquito by Roma Tearne
Costa Novel Award
* Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett
* Day by A.L. Kennedy
* Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
* The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Costa Poetry Award
* The Speed of Dark by Ian Duhig
* The Space of Joy by John Fuller
* Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra
* Tilt by Jean Sprackland
Costa Biography Award
* Rudolf Nureyev by Julie Kavanagh
* Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre
* Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
* Fatty Batter by Michael Simkins
Three of the titles are by authors from Oxfordshire: poet John Fuller's The Space of Joy, the biography Rudolph Nureyev by the ballet critic Julie Kavanagh and Mosquito, a first novel by Roma Tearne.
http://www.costabookawards.com/awards/shortlist.aspx
21 November 2007
Booktrust Teenage Book Prize
The only national prize for teenage fiction, the Booktrust Teenage Book Prize, was won earlier this month by Marcus Sedgwick's My Swordhand is Singing which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
The other shortlisted books for 2007 were:
Theresa Breslin The Medici Seal
Kate Cann Leaving Poppy
Mal Peet The Penalty
Philip Reeve Here Lies Arthur
Meg Rosoff Just in Case
The 2006 winner was Henry Tumour by Anthony McGowan
More information:
http://www.bookheads.org.uk/
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/children/article2792301.ece
The other shortlisted books for 2007 were:
Theresa Breslin The Medici Seal
Kate Cann Leaving Poppy
Mal Peet The Penalty
Philip Reeve Here Lies Arthur
Meg Rosoff Just in Case
The 2006 winner was Henry Tumour by Anthony McGowan
More information:
http://www.bookheads.org.uk/
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/children/article2792301.ece
14 November 2007
Kids' Lit Quiz Oxford Heat
Well done to our two teams who took part in the Oxford heat of Kids' Lit Quiz . There were 32 teams competing, with over 75 adults watching.
Our Lady's Abingdon Year 8 team came third in a play-off, a sudden-death question, where Quizmaster Wayne Mills started reading the opening lines of a book, which had to be identified. They won £20 book tokens and books, to add to a set of books awarded earlier for winning the round on heroes.
The quiz is sponsored by Serco and John Essery from Serco Defence, Science and Technology presented the KLQ Oxford cup to The Cherwell School. The winning team also went home with £80 book tokens and books, and a place in the UK KLQ Final next month. Runners up Oxford High won £40 book tokens for the team plus books to take away. In between the rounds 10 happy adults won a £5 book token each for answering a question on an adult title. There were also £1 spot prizes for children in the audience.
As Wayne says in his blog "At today's heat in Oxford we had incredibly quick kids and a great turnout of authors." The authors present were: Dennis Hamley, Mary Hooper, Meg Harper, Rod Hunt, Mark Robson, Mini Gray and Rachael Wing, who were happy to sign autographs and copies of their books.
Full results of all the regional heats are on the website: http://www.kidslitquiz.com/UK/2007/results.html
Our Lady's Abingdon Year 8 team came third in a play-off, a sudden-death question, where Quizmaster Wayne Mills started reading the opening lines of a book, which had to be identified. They won £20 book tokens and books, to add to a set of books awarded earlier for winning the round on heroes.
The quiz is sponsored by Serco and John Essery from Serco Defence, Science and Technology presented the KLQ Oxford cup to The Cherwell School. The winning team also went home with £80 book tokens and books, and a place in the UK KLQ Final next month. Runners up Oxford High won £40 book tokens for the team plus books to take away. In between the rounds 10 happy adults won a £5 book token each for answering a question on an adult title. There were also £1 spot prizes for children in the audience.
As Wayne says in his blog "At today's heat in Oxford we had incredibly quick kids and a great turnout of authors." The authors present were: Dennis Hamley, Mary Hooper, Meg Harper, Rod Hunt, Mark Robson, Mini Gray and Rachael Wing, who were happy to sign autographs and copies of their books.
Full results of all the regional heats are on the website: http://www.kidslitquiz.com/UK/2007/results.html
01 November 2007
Kids’ Lit Quiz
There is great excitement in our school as our two teams prepare for the Oxford Heat of the Kids' Lit Quiz on 13 November, at the White Horse Tennis and Leisure Centre, Audlett Drive, Abingdon, 1.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. This is the fifth year that the quiz will be taking place in the UK, with its inventor Professor Wayne Mills, Senior Lecturer at Auckland University, New Zealand as Quizmaster.
There will be over 30 teams of four students from Years 7 & 8 who will be battling their wits answering questions about books and literature: 100 questions in 10 rounds, with prizes of books after each round. The winning team will win book tokens and a place in the National Final on 3rd December which will take place at The Seven Stories, Newcastle. The team winning the National Final will be invited to compete with teams from around the world for the World Title.
There will be several well known authors and illustrators present. Those who have confirmed are: Mark Robson, Meg Harper, Mary Hooper, Dennis Hamley, Mini Grey, and Rachael Wing. There will also be a bookshop which will, of course, be also selling our visiting authors’ books. (Think early for Christmas – a book makes a perfect gift!)
This will be a great afternoon of lively competition, and it is also a hugely exciting spectator sport. There will be some between-round questions and prizes for the grown-ups too! It is always a very entertaining and fun occasion and everyone present marvels at the young students' breadth of knowledge.
I'm one of the co-organisers of the Oxford Heat. The three of us organising it are volunteers, but we all agree that it is such a fantastic event that it deserves wider recognition in the UK. In New Zealand the Final is shown live on television! Visit the website www.kidslitquiz.com to find out more. Quizmaster Wayne Mills will be blogging as he travels the country, so read the details about each regional heat at http://kidslitquiz.blogspot.com.
There will be over 30 teams of four students from Years 7 & 8 who will be battling their wits answering questions about books and literature: 100 questions in 10 rounds, with prizes of books after each round. The winning team will win book tokens and a place in the National Final on 3rd December which will take place at The Seven Stories, Newcastle. The team winning the National Final will be invited to compete with teams from around the world for the World Title.
There will be several well known authors and illustrators present. Those who have confirmed are: Mark Robson, Meg Harper, Mary Hooper, Dennis Hamley, Mini Grey, and Rachael Wing. There will also be a bookshop which will, of course, be also selling our visiting authors’ books. (Think early for Christmas – a book makes a perfect gift!)
This will be a great afternoon of lively competition, and it is also a hugely exciting spectator sport. There will be some between-round questions and prizes for the grown-ups too! It is always a very entertaining and fun occasion and everyone present marvels at the young students' breadth of knowledge.
I'm one of the co-organisers of the Oxford Heat. The three of us organising it are volunteers, but we all agree that it is such a fantastic event that it deserves wider recognition in the UK. In New Zealand the Final is shown live on television! Visit the website www.kidslitquiz.com to find out more. Quizmaster Wayne Mills will be blogging as he travels the country, so read the details about each regional heat at http://kidslitquiz.blogspot.com.
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