Preliminary rounds to select OLA's two Kids' Lit Quiz teams have been taking place for all pupils in Year 7 and Year 8. Higher scorers have been invited to a second round taking place in their own time, outside lessons. Once we have a squad, members will need to confirm their availability to take part before we finalise the teams.
This year the Oxfordshire and Berkshire Heat will be taking place on Tuesday 16 November, 2.30 - 5.30 p.m. It’s a great spectator event and super entertainment: put the date in your diary now! The winning team from this heat will go through to the UK Final taking place later in the month, on Tuesday 30 November this year in Oxford, in the Town Hall, 1.30 - 4 p.m.
10 October 2010
08 October 2010
First children's story book with 3D animation
The world's first interactive 3D animation story book for children is on sale in Finland. The 3D animation story book for children looks just like any picture book, but with special small black squares on some pages which indicate the interactive 3D animation. Once a web camera faces the black square, 3D-animation cartoon figures and pictures will appear on the computer screen. See a picture.
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2010 winner
Michelle Paver has won this year's Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for Ghost Hunter, the sixth and final book in her Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series.
It's relatively rare for a book late in a series to win a major prize but it was aunanimous choice by the judges who said it is "a towering achievement, as a whole as well as in terms of the individual books."
The shortlist for the £1500 prize included Maurice Gleitzman's Now, Gregory Hughes's Unhooking the Moon and Eva Ibbotson's The Ogre of Oglefort. Michelle Paver now joins a distinguished line of past winners, which includes Ted Hughes, Jacqueline Wilson, Anne Fine and Philip Pullman.
The Guardian children's fiction prize was founded in 1967 and is unique in that it is judged by children's authors themselves, and can only be won once by any single author.
More information and author interview.
It's relatively rare for a book late in a series to win a major prize but it was aunanimous choice by the judges who said it is "a towering achievement, as a whole as well as in terms of the individual books."
The shortlist for the £1500 prize included Maurice Gleitzman's Now, Gregory Hughes's Unhooking the Moon and Eva Ibbotson's The Ogre of Oglefort. Michelle Paver now joins a distinguished line of past winners, which includes Ted Hughes, Jacqueline Wilson, Anne Fine and Philip Pullman.
The Guardian children's fiction prize was founded in 1967 and is unique in that it is judged by children's authors themselves, and can only be won once by any single author.
More information and author interview.
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