The shortlists for this year?s Calderdale Children's Book of the Year Awards are currently being read by a total of 200 children and their teachers, and all of the child judges will attend Literary Lunches at the Central Library, Halifax in June and July.
Older children will be entertained by poet Ian Macmillan, and the teenagers will meet and work with all the shortlisted authors.
The shortlists are:
Children?s Novels:
Fine, Anne The More the Merrier
Gross, Philip Marginaliens
Kennemore, Tim Sabine
McKay, Hilary Indigo?s Star
Spinelli, Jerry Loser
Teenage Novels:
Augarde, Steve The Various
Gray, Keith Malarkey
Gross, Philip The Lastling
Laird, Elizabeth A Little Piece of Ground
Rai, Bali The Crew
just responded by email
achuka, pls do you have any more information about these awards? a contact name / email / website? one of our titles is shortlisted but this is the first I've heard of it!
many thanks, Rebecca