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Barrowby and Grantham are 10 years old in 2012
Celebrate at their Gala Dinner with Barbara Mitchelhill
17th June
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Other authors this June include Tom Palmer and Cirian Muntagh
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Author Events for 2012
14th June Tom Palmer, author of Own Goal!
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18th June
Return visit of Barbara Mitchelhill
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27-28th June
New author Cirian Muntagh
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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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A Monster Calls

By Patrick Ness

Overall Winner Red House Children's Book Award 2012

And the Winner is announced!!!!  Click here for the Photo Gallery


A fantastic ceremony at the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre in London, compered by James Campbell, was the culmination of a year of testing and reviewing by children across the UK.

Our shortlisted authors were accompanied by last year's Overall Winner, Michael Morpurgo, Past winners Malorie Blackman and Korky Paul and by Steve Cole, as children from our testing groups came up on stage to announce the Winners in the Categories:

Younger Children: Chris Wormell with Scruffy Bear and the Six White Mice

Younger Readers: Liz Pichon with The Brilliant World of Tom Gates

Older Readers: Patrick Ness with A Monster Calls

Already we have national press coverage on the Guardian Children's web site and Patrick is to be interviewed by the Telegraph and on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday between 8.15 and 9.00.

Video clips of the ceremony should be available on YouTube shortly.

Visit the Red House Childrens Book Award web site for more information.



 

 

 
Federation News
National-Share-A-Story Month 2012

Sponsored by Templar Publishing
Based on the StoryWorld cards, groups around the UK will be creating and sharing stories throughout the month of May.
Visit the NSSM web site page for more.
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After a fantastic Conference 2012
put dates in your diary for the 2013 Conference
22nd to 24th March 2013
Power of the Page
Speakers booked include:
Harriet Castor, Melvyn Burgess, Rachel Ward, Liz Pichon, Angie Sage
Click here for more
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