tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52843342523531975512024-03-13T03:12:07.050+00:00CazApr1I read kids books because I'm a School Librarian, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-57321162316048959812018-08-27T17:50:00.001+01:002018-08-27T17:50:59.038+01:00TeenLibrarian.co.ukThis blog has been silent for a long time, while I was preoccupied with Bea's arrival & then being the London CKG Judge for 2017 & 2018. Instead of starting it back up again though, my mate Matt asked me if I'd come on board with TeenLibrarian.co.uk &, of course, I agreed! I've contributed the occasional article to the Teen Librarian Monthly newsletter but from now on I'm going to CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-74127079510103814002016-03-13T21:22:00.000+00:002016-03-13T21:22:36.675+00:00Carnegie 2016 - my personal shortlist
The official CKG shortlists will be announced on Tuesday 15th March, when shadowing groups around the country will suddenly burst into life and twitter will be abuzz with opinions and reviews. Next year I wont be allowed to tell you my shortlist because I will be one of the real judges (woo), having to look carefully at the criteria instead of just saying whether I enjoyed it or CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-79635457746642986032016-02-16T08:25:00.001+00:002016-02-16T08:25:58.463+00:00Carnegie Kate Greenaway 2016!
This blog was scheduled to 'go live' on Sunday but obviously didn't & I forgot about it! Never mind, means I can add a link to the real list plus BfK reviews which is slightly different to my own...
Dusting off my blog (regular twitter followers will know I have a better excuse than usual for not blogging: I called her Bea) to share my personal longlist for #Carnegie16. The CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-13825468741632102402015-03-15T19:31:00.001+00:002015-03-15T19:31:28.060+00:00My #CKG15 shortlist!The official shortlist comes out on Tuesday, & having read all the longlist I thought I'd share my favourites:
My Brother's Shadow by Tom Avery (Andersen Press)
When Mr. Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan (Bloomsbury)
Apple and Rain by Sarah Crossan (Bloomsbury)
Tinder by Sally Gardner (author) and David Roberts (illustrator) (Orion Children's Books)
More Than This by CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-49648062638714030212015-02-07T19:12:00.000+00:002015-02-07T19:12:01.402+00:00#CKG15 personal longlistTuesday February 10th will see the announcement of the official longlist for the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway 2015 medals, woo! It will also mean schools around the country start shadowing the award in earnest, something I'm not going to be involved in much this year because my maternity leave will begin shortly after the shortlist announcement...next year I imagine I'll focusCazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-6623179102547829802014-10-20T17:56:00.000+01:002014-10-20T17:56:46.063+01:00#CKG15 nominations!It is that time of year again, and I realise I haven't posted anything since last April! The longlists are insanely long, 91 on the Carnegie, so I'm probably not going to see my good friend Matt for a few months as he gets through them in his official capacity of a judge. So really quickly, I'm highlighting the ones I've read in red and the ones on my tbr pile in green, and at the endCazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-20658179115348987052014-04-30T08:15:00.000+01:002014-04-30T08:18:14.422+01:00#papervspixels April Challenge: thoughts
I have a Nook that I bought in order to use Netgalley. I read far too much to buy every book so rely on libraries a lot and, if I were to ever pay money to read a book, I would always rather buy a 'real' copy so that it could live on my shelves at home rather than only exist for as long as the technology does...perhaps that is silly but when the power goes out who'll be laughing eh?CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-18150389279162207862014-03-18T08:00:00.001+00:002014-03-18T08:00:18.606+00:00CKG Shortlists announced!Before I even got to school this morning the shortlists were announced:
CILIP Carnegie Medal 2014 shortlist:
Julie Berry ALL THE TRUTH
THAT'S IN ME Templar (14+)
Kevin Brooks THE BUNKER
DIARY Puffin (14+)
Rachel Campbell-Johnston THE
CHILD'S ELEPHANT David Fickling Books (11+)
Susan Cooper GHOST
HAWK Bodley Head (11+)
Anne Fine BLOOD
FAMILY Double Day (14+)
Katherine Rundell
CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-30567305823170616192014-03-12T12:18:00.000+00:002014-03-12T12:18:22.998+00:00CKG 2014 shortlist predictionsThe official shortlists will be announced on Tuesday 18th March but earlier this week I, along with some other fantastic librarians and bloggers, made our predictions for the Carnegie shortlist on acaseforbooks. I thought I'd just quickly put mine on here as well:
but also share my Greenaway predictions having had a chance to look through 17* of them today:
Open
Very Carefully
by CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-74626759132724079112014-02-04T08:29:00.001+00:002014-02-04T08:29:17.537+00:00The Official CKG Longlist is announced!Today the longlist for the Carnegie Kate Greenaway Awards 2014 was announced:
• The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas by David Almond (Walker Books)
• All the Truth That’s in Me by Julie Berry (Templar)
• The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks (Penguin)
• The Child’s Elephant by Rachel Campbell-Johnston (David Fickling Books)
• Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper (Bodley Head)
• After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-66131367078344462092014-02-03T11:59:00.001+00:002014-02-03T11:59:53.026+00:00#CKG2014 - my personal longlistI read a few more Carnegie nominations in January:
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The longlist will be announced in about 4 weeks, on Tuesday 4th February, so I thought it was about time I updated my personal list. Because I've been alternating nominations with new books, and read literally nothing during the Christmas fortnight, I've not added to my 'read' total by many titles:
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CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-25057684416474233342013-11-05T12:42:00.000+00:002014-01-09T14:47:18.771+00:00Here we go again...the Carnegie nominations 2014I can't believe it is this time already, but the nominations were announced today! I've highlighted those that I've already read:
Almond,
David, Mouse
Bird Snake Wolf
(Walker Books)Almond,
David, The
Boy Who Swam with Piranhas
(Walker Books)Barber,
Elke, Is
Daddy Coming Back in a Minute?: Explaining Sudden Death to Pre-School
Children in Words They Can Understand
(Elke CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-16752613425872513722013-10-29T12:23:00.000+00:002013-10-29T12:23:50.470+00:00Image and Imagination at the YLG National ConferenceFriday and Saturday of last week were the most intense days of my year! Starting on Friday with a 4.30am alarm it was non-stop until 5.45pm on Saturday (apart from a small gap of about 7hours sleep).
Play by the Book has written a lovely blog post about all the fantastic authors, with some great pictures, so I just thought I'd write a little bit about the library-ish bits which were CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-44656746529115451642013-09-27T13:32:00.002+01:002013-09-27T13:33:11.315+01:00UKLA Book Awards 2014The UKLA (UK Literacy Association) is unrelated to libraries officially but totally related to my key interest: promoting literacy and reading in schools. They have an annual book award, with age categories, with a longlist chosen by a panel of teachers from a selection sent to them by UK publishers. I thought it would be interesting to see how much of an overlap there is between CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-59947498524460076572013-09-09T14:20:00.003+01:002013-09-09T14:20:56.760+01:00Book MonopolyI tweeted a photo of my Book Monopoly Board last week and a number of people wanted to know how it works - too much for a tweet! So here we go:
Towards the end of last term, someone on SLN (School Librarians Network - a yahoo mailing list) mentioned a book monopoly game that they play with their pupils and I thought it sounded like a brilliant idea to try here to get pupils to try CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-3193855924926715272013-07-08T17:54:00.000+01:002013-07-08T17:56:54.337+01:00CILIP Rebranding, my Two Penn'orthPlease note: this is entirely my personal opinion
I've been following the disharmony over the CILIP rebrand since all members were invited to complete a questionnaire which included ranking 6 possible names for the professional body as part of the rebranding. I didn't like any of the names and, while I don't dispute the need for a rebrand, I question the CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-81625380141860136722013-07-08T10:20:00.000+01:002013-07-08T10:20:39.948+01:00Improving Reading, Toe by ToeI have completely neglected the blog since March, didn't even post my excitement about the announcement that Maggot Moon, one of my favourites of last year, won the Carnegie! But OfSTED have been and gone (we're a 'good' school and they were particularly impressed with our improvements in literacy, hooray!), the KS3 and 4 exams have ended, it is nearly time for me to give reading prizes to CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-41836734445274036952013-03-12T08:09:00.001+00:002013-03-12T08:09:42.983+00:00CILIP Carnegie and Greenaway Shortlists announced!Some surprises for me!
CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013 - Nominees
Sarah Crossan, The Weight of Water
Roddy Doyle, A Greyhound of a Girl
Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon
Nick Lake, In Darkness
R.J. Palacio, Wonder
Marcus Sedgwick, Midwinterblood
Dave Shelton, A Boy and a Bear in a Boat
Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity
I nominatd Boy and a Bear CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-39096841386247444132013-03-09T16:09:00.001+00:002013-03-09T16:09:36.670+00:00My Personal #CKG2013 Short List!Ah, the announcement you've all been waiting for, which of the nearly 70 books do I think are Carnegie worthy? It was a difficult choice, there wasn't anything that I actually disliked, although only maybe 20 of them that I thought were great. Have a look at my previous posts for brief reviews.
Without further ado, my shortlist of 8 (never know whether it will be 6 or 8 on the CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-32411386565657365572013-03-06T21:13:00.001+00:002013-03-08T22:33:01.592+00:00Carnegie Longlist - final update!At last, I've finished! See this post for my previous update.
The official shortlist is announced on Tuesday so I shall be sharing my personal shortlist at some point this weekend...but here are my feelings about the Carnegie books I've read since the end of January. This year there hasn't been a single story that didn't have something going for it, although I think I might have beenCazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-77048938942036903722013-02-26T22:10:00.003+00:002013-02-26T22:10:38.485+00:00Top Ten Tuesday - autobuy authors
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme created and hosted by The Broke and the Bookish that I occasionally like to join in with. Today's theme was pointed out to me by Strange Chemistry on twitter and I thought of my first 4 straight away...
1. Terry Pratchett is my fave author in the whole wide world and has been for literally half of my life. I discovered him because there was a poster CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-43201497931482484932013-01-22T18:51:00.001+00:002013-01-22T18:51:34.296+00:00Carnegie Longlist UpdateJust a brief note to update you on my progress on the CKG Carnegie longlist for 2013. Since my last post I have read another bunch of generally good but not amazing books:
The
True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean by
David Almond - a review I read reckoned this is 'David Almond's first book for adults', although it is published on a children's list in order to be eligible for Carnegie.&CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-12265538315150528822012-12-06T17:13:00.002+00:002012-12-06T17:13:33.539+00:00Carnegie Longlist, one month in.The long list was announced on the 5th November, see my post for the whole list as well as which I had already read. As I did last year, I'd like to read all of them before the shortlist is announced, so here's an update on my progress...I've not only been reading Carnegie books but I only mention those listed here (check my mini-reviews on Twitter or find me on Goodreads to see what else CazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284334252353197551.post-83928620214972045842012-11-21T18:45:00.001+00:002012-11-21T18:45:25.094+00:00#cpd23 fail!Avid readers (all one of you) may have noticed that my CPD23 posts ended at Thing 16 quite some time ago. We have until November 30th to finish and get a certificate and I keep thinking I really must do it, but I'm sitting here procrastinating, avoiding doing actual essential YLG things, and have realised it aint gonna happen. If they re-run it next year I will make a concerted effortCazApr1http://www.blogger.com/profile/06111054718949882518noreply@blogger.com0