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 The CILIP Carnegie Medal Winner is ...

Tamar by Mal Peet, published by Walker Books

A Big thanks to all the shadowing groups

We hope that you have enjoyed shadowing the CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenway Medals this year and we would like to say a big thank you for being involved with the scheme and helping to make shadowing in 2006 such a success.

You are one of 3,000 groups across the country and overseas who registered to take part in the scheme. Groups have posted an amazing 14,000+ book reviews on the website (and we're still counting!). Well done to everyone who posted a review. The postroom will remain live for at least the next couple of months, for those who haven't had a chance so far.

We would love to hear any feedback you have about shadowing, please send comments to:

ckg@cilip.org.uk

or

Mark Taylor, Marketing Department, CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE.

CILIP Carnegie Medal

Although all five books on the shortlist were outstanding in their own way, Tamar was the unanimous winner. The judges really admired the very strong narrative of both the war time story, and the modern journey undertaken by young Tamar, which are interwoven so meticulously and with such skill, by a writer truly in control of his plot. The characterisation is brilliant - these are people who stay in the mind long after the book is finished,a nd no one is entirely good or entirely evil, but all shades in between. Despite the fact that this is only Mal Peet's second novel, he is a writer of exceptional quality, using a wide array of literary techniques like imagery and simile, to very great effect. The story is very visual, almost filmic in quality, and the judges felt that Peet really helps the reader to make connections between the past and the present, bringing history fully alive to today's readers through Tamar's contemporary voice.

 CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD

The ChildrenŽs Book Award Winner for 2006 is "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Lightning Thief"!

  • Thank you to all readers who took part in the testing.
  • If you would like to join our testing group for next year, sign the sheet at the library main desk ASAP.
  • Nomination forms for new books from 2006 (to win the 2007 award) are available in the library now.

 Red House Children's Book Award

 The Reading Mission

Take part in this year's Summer Reading Challenge!

Borrow books from our library (during the last week of term) and from the public libraries over the holiday. Read, review, do the puzzles and play the games.

Have fun with books!!

 The Reading Mission

 RETURN THE ADVENTURE - SHARE THE THRILLS!

Please check at home (in your bedroom, down the back of the shelf, behind the fridge etc..). Do you have any library books that should have been returned? If so, bring them in - no matter how late t hey are - you won't be in trouble. WeŽll just be glad to see them, and youŽll clear your name so that you can borrow again next year.

A new Web based version of the Library catalogue system has been launched. At the moment the system can only be used inside of school.

Click on the link: SearchStar

 Txtn is dstryn d Eng lang Wt dyu fnk?

Join the debate online @ www.storiesfromtheweb.org

 Are you a budding poet?

Would you like to be Birmingham's second Young Poet Laureate? Go to www.birmingham.gov.uk/younglaureate to see what it's all about. Application forms available in the library and on the website from 20th May, 2006.