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Thursday

BRANFORD BOASE AWARD

The Branford Boase Award is an award specifically given to a new children’s author for their first children’s book. The award will be presented on Thursday July 5th and will be chosen from one of the books on the shortlist, which are:

Being Billy, by Phil Earle
Long Lankin, by Lindsey Barraclough
Small Change for Stuart, by Lissa Evans
Everybody Jam, by Ali Lewis
Sky Hawk, by Gill Lewis
A Beautiful Lie, by Irfan Master
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, by Annabel Pitcher

My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece is one of my favourite books of this year, and I’m reading Long Lankin (which is really very creepy) just now – I’ll review it when I’ve finished it. We have most of these books in the library already, so if you would like to read them, just ask!

Monday

BOOK OF THE WEEK – SMALL CHANGE FOR STUART

For a much needed change, this week’s book of the week is light-hearted and funny – the author, Lissa Edwards used to be a stand-up comedian and is now is a comedy producer for television.

Small Change for Stuart was short-listed for the Costa Children’s Book Award.

Stuart Horton – ten years old and small for his age – moves to the dreary town of Beeton, far away from all his friends. And then he meets his new next-door neighbours, the unbearable Kingley triplets, and things get even worse.

But in Beeton begins the strangest adventure of Stuart’s life.

He is swept up in a quest to find his great-uncle’s lost workshop – a workshop stuffed with trickery and magic. There are clues to follow and puzzles to solve, but what starts as fun ends up as danger, and Stuart begins to realize that he can’t finish the task by himself…

Friday

COSTA CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD SHORTLIST 2011

The Shortlist for the 2011 Costa Children’s Book Award has been announced. The list is…

Flip by Martyn Bedford

The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Small Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans

Blood Red Road by Moira Young

Currently we only have one of these books – Blood Red Road – but the others are on order for the library, so will be here soon. The full press release from Costa with details of all the books can be read by clicking on the Costa logo.