Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize 2017

Screenshot from the Reading Agency’s website (click on link below)

 

The Royal Society celebrates the best books that communicate science to young people through their Young People’s Book Prize. Each year an expert panel of adult judges choose a shortlist of their favourite science books from entries submitted by publishers.

Here is the 2017 shortlist:

• A First Book of Animals by Nicola Davis, illustrated by Petr Horácek (Walker books)
• 100 Things to Know About Space by Alex Frith, Alice James and Jerome Martin, illustrated by Shaw Nielsen and Federico Mariani (Usborne Publishing Ltd)
• Home Lab by Robert Winston (DK)
• This Little Pebble by Anna Claybourne, illustrated by Sally Garland (Hachette Children’s Group)
• The Awesome Body Book by Adam Frost (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
• If…A Mind-Bending Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers by David J Smith, illustrated by Steve Adams (Hachette Children’s Books)

The adult judges will hand over the task of picking a winner to groups of young people under 14 across the UK. These groups are from schools, libraries, scouts and brownies, science centres or youth groups. They form their own judging panels, and will read and discuss the books over the summer. Once they’ve made their decisions, they will submit their verdict to the Royal Society – together they decide the winner, who will be announced in November.

Find out more about the shortlisted titles by clicking on the link.

Congratulations to our first prize winners

A little belated but we can finally put faces to our grand prize winners for our Poetry Competition!

Our First prize winner in the Adult Category was Lesley Moffatt

Our first prize winner in the Junior Category was Ewan Shakeshaft

Well Done! Enjoy spending your book tokens!

COLEFORD FESTIVAL OF WORDS Writing Competition is OPEN!!

Your library may be hosting one of the events for the Coleford Festival of Words. In the meantime, sharpen those pencils/pens or just dust off your keyboard and get writing! The Competition is open and the closing date is the 29 May 2017.

Entry forms in the library or print off one online at this website: http://www.thecolefordhub.info

 

Winners of our Poetry Competition are…

 

Well done to all our poets!!

Here are our winners:

Adult Category:

1st Prize: Lesley Moffat

2nd Prize: Rachael Boucker

Junior Category:

1st Prize: Ewan Shakeshaft

2nd Prize: Isobel Eisel

 

In honour of World Poetry day we are running a Poetry Competition!

The rules are as follows:

1. Your poem is limited to 140 characters (this includes spaces)
2. Subject to be about books, reading, libraries or literature and must not be offensive.
3. Authors agree to let us use your poems in the libraries promotions and on social media
4. Tell all your friends and family to like your poem on Facebook
5. The poem will be judged by a panel for the 1st place prize and the poem with the most likes on Facebook will win the popular vote for the 2nd prize.
6. Closing Date for entries is 21 March 2017
7. A winner for the popular vote will be announced midday on the 28^th March and the 1st place winner will be announced on the 29^th

Please e-mail your poems to atait@breamcommunitylibrary.co.uk

Or

Message your poem on Facebook to Bream Library’s Facebook page

Or

Hand in your poem at the library

Then log into Facebook and see how your poem is doing!

Prizes

There are three categories – Adults, Teenagers and Juniors.

Each category has two prizes: Judges Vote   GBP20.00 book vouchers.

Popular Vote GBP10.00 book vouchers.