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Barrowby and Grantham CBG

Next event in Barrowby and Grantham is
Tom Palmer in March
Author of Own Goal!
Followed by a return visit of Barbara Mitchelhill in the summer
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29th September award-winner Liz Pichon
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates
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4th October Barbara Mitchellhill talked about her new book
Run, Rabbit, Run about the Second World War
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Well-known cartoonist and author Ros Asquith visited on 11th October
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Tom Palmer will be entertaining children on football and other games on Tuesday 6th December
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Past Events
Barrowby and Grantham hosted a visit by the author Jill Hucklesby in March.
Jill Hucklesby
Jill spent the day at Walton Girl's School where she spoke about life as an author and her new book "If I could Fly", followed by a couple of workshops with the Gifted and Talented.

"If I could Fly" was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Award and is has been longlisted  for the 'Peoples Book Prize' in the main fiction section
Barrowby and Grantham also hosted in the past month William Hussey with his new book Witchfinder: Gallows at Twilight and new author Jon Mayhew with his first book:'Mortlock - The Demon Collector'.
Both were highly popular with all the children.
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The Red House Children's Book Award Regional Party
was held on Saturday 9th October at the Guildhall Grantham where enthralled children met previous short-list winners Adam Stower (below), Jonathan Emmett and Lynne Chapman.
Award-winning author, Helena Pielichaty, was also there - visit her blog for more.
Adam Stower
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Emma Thompson with children
Friday 12th March
Highly successful visit of new horror author William Hussey
william hussey
Author William Hussey signing books after his highly successful visit promoting
his first children's book
'WitchFinder: Dawn of the Demontide'
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Red House Children's Book Award

 

The short list has been announced and arrangements for the Award Ceremony are well under way, celebrating the best of children's fiction during 2011 with our Shortlisted Authors, Illustrators and Past Winners.

Visit the Red House Childrens Book Award web site to download the Top 50 Pick of the Year and posters and if you would like free bookmarks e-mail rhcba@fcbg.org.uk

There is still time to take part in the voting to decide who will be winning the coveted Award at the Imagine Festival at the South Bank in London and the web site will tell you how to take part.

And if you would like to share in the celebrations as the Overall Winner is announced and you have not been able to take part as part of a Testing Group then you can buy tickets from the South Bank web site and meet your favourite authors on the day.  Click here for more information.

 


 

 

 
STOP PRESS!
The Federation has WON the Eleanor Farjeon Award 2011 given for distinguished service to the world of children’s books, to a person or an organisation whose commitment and contribution is deemed to be outstanding.
The winning of this award is a tribute to the selfless hard work and dedication of everyone who has been part of the Federation over all the years and for the work in the groups, in schools, libraries and within families to share the joy of books and reading with children across the country.
Click here to read the press release and to download Chair, Adam Lancaster's acceptance speech.
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Federation News
Conference 2012 Worlds Within Words
13th - 15th April 2012
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