YA Book Prize 2016 shortlist

The YA Book Prize shortlist features lots of our current favourites:

Find out more from The Bookseller.

The winner will be announced on 2nd June.

Chris Priestley's visit

A very creepy Chris Priestley came to visit Kimbolton School today! We love his dark, unsettling tales and his creative writing workshops sparked lots of ideas for sinister stories.

www.chrispriestleybooks.com/

Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016

The winner of the Waterstones Childrens' Book Prize is the hilarious 'My Brother is a Superhero'!

Further details are available on the Waterstones web site including information on the winner of the Best Older Fiction category: Lisa Williamson's 'The Art of Being Normal', a superb story centred on the issues of gender and identity (see earlier post).

Carnegie Shortlist announced

How many of the shortlisted books have you read? See the full list of superb reads in this Guardian article.

Katniss wins the vote

Results of the Kimbolton School World Book Day online survey have revealed that female characters have the upper hand in novels with Katniss Everdeen from the Hunger Games voted the greatest fictional hero! The ultimate villain was, of course, Harry’s nemesis, Lord Voldemort, with ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ voted the 21^st century book destined to be a future classic. Interestingly, three of Kimbolton School’s Summer Reads featured in the top six (‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’, ‘The Book Thief’ and ‘Wonder’ each received over 10% of the vote).

Happy World Book Day!

Lots of wonderful booky experiences here today at Kimbolton School. Staff in costume, the Mad Hatter's Tea party, cake sale in aid of BookAid International AND an online survey! Results later...