Crime Fiction Award – The Dagger in the Library 2012

Do you love crime fiction? Do you feel that your favourite writer is one who doesn’t get the rewards they should?

Well if they are British, and they are still alive and kicking, you could change all that. The Dagger in the Library is not an award for best-sellers – it is an award for up and coming authors or library favourites who YOU think are not as well known as they should be.
So get involved today and vote for your unheralded favourite. Nominations are now open, but they must be sent in by library staff, so contact your local library and ask them to nominate your favourite. Find out more, and get a copy of the nomination form.
Last year’s winner was the wonderful Mo Hayder.

It would be a crime not to get involved!!

Dirty Bertie wins local Children’s Book Prize

A story about a boy with digusting habits has been voted the winner of Leicestershire Library Services’ children’s book prize for 2010 by hundreds of children.

 

Dirty Bertie – Loo! by Alan MacDonald won the competition, which saw more than 2,500 Leicestershire children voting online and in libraries for their favourite book from a shortlist of 10 titles aimed at younger readers.

 

Leicestershire’s Children’s Book Prize was launched in October 2010 during national Children’s Book Week. The aim of the prize was to widen reading choices for younger readers and encourage them to read for pleasure.

 

The book prize has been promoted in schools and libraries across the county, with children between 7 and 9 years old taking part.

 

The book’s authour, Alan MacDonald, will be invited to attend a prize-giving in the New Year.

 

The runners up for the prize were:

2nd – Andy Cope for Spy Pups – Prison Break

3rd - Paul Fleischman for The Dunderheads

4th – Sophie Mckenzie for Time Train to the Blitz

 

For more information go to at www.leics.gov.uk/childrensbookprize, or contact Maggie Boyd, Development Librarian, on 0116 3053833 or email her at maggie.boyd@leics.gov.uk

Final chance for children to vote for their favourite book

There are just three weeks left for Leicestershire children to vote for their favourite book and be in with a chance of winning some fantastic prizes!  This is part of Leicestershire County Council’s Library Services’ 2010 Children’s Book Prize.

Library staff and local authors have been helping to promote the prize in schools and libraries across the county for the last two months and hundreds of children have been reading the titles from the shortlist. They now have until December 17th to vote for their favourite either at their local library or online at: www.leics.gov.uk/childrensbookprize

The schools that generate the most votes will have the chance to win £200 worth of new books and host the prize giving event in the New Year

The aim of the prize is to promote reading for pleasure and to widen reading choices for younger readers by increasing their awareness of recently published books written by real authors.

The books being considered for the prize are:

• The Pirate’s Treasure by Emily Bearn
• Prison Break – Spy Pups by Andy cope
• The Dunderheads by Paul Fleischman
• Madame Pamplemousse and her incredible edibles by Rupert Kingfisher
• Dirty Bertie – Loo! by Alan MacDonald
• Charlie and the haunted tent by Hilary McKay
• Time train to the Blitz by Sophie McKenzie
• Ghost Goblins by David Melling
• The Story of Matthew Buzzington by Andy Stanton
• Iggy and Me by Jenny Valentine

For more information please contact:
Maggie Boyd
Development Librarian
maggie.boyd@leics.gov.uk
0116 305 3833

Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal shortlists announced.

The Shortlists for the 2010 CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals have been announced.

This year’s shortlists feature an impressive collection of award winning authors and illustrators, ready to battle it out for this coveted prize.

The winners will be announced 24th June, 2010

Check our website for the catalogue to find out more about each of the shortlisted titles and add your own comments.

Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals 2009

Congratulations to the winners of this year’s  Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals 2009!

The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2009 was posthumously awarded to Siobhan Dowd for ‘Bog Child’.

The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2009 was awarded to Catherine Rayner for ‘Harris finds his Feet’.

Both titles were nominated by staff from Leicestershire and Leicester City libraries

Find out more about the titles and the awards on the Libraries website