And the winner is...

Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd has been awarded the Carnegie Medal for 2009! The Carnegie Shadowers had chosen either Black Rabbit Summer or Cosmic as their favourite books from the shortlist of seven. However those who read Bog Child (including Mrs Hart and Mrs Henson) loved the book and were hoping that this would be the winner. See the Shadowers' reviews at:

http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/grouphomepages/index.php?GroupID=122

Unfortunately this will be a posthumous award as Siobhan died last year. Before she passed away, she established The Siobhan Dowd Trust. The aim of the trust is to help disadvantaged children improve their skills and experience the joy of reading. It will offer financial support to: public libraries; state school libraries; children in care; asylum seekers; young offenders and children with special needs.

NK Day - Where's the green parrot?

The Information Jungle theme continued when the new First Form visited the library this week. Each 'jungle explorer' was issued with a passport and a variety of questions. By the end of each session pupils had learned more about the rainforest and about how to use the library and its resources successfully.

The Information Jungle

The final of the 2nd Form Library Challenge took place today. Four teams raced round the library to win this quiz with a difference. Quizzers earned points by finding the answers using appropriate resources and for recording their sources of information. 2L were the overall champions and were rewarded with book tokens and points for the House Championship.