Children’s Book Week Author Visit and Story Competition Winners
We were delighted to welcome Andrew McDonald and Ben Wood, author and illustrator of Real Pigeons Fight Crime, to help us celebrate Children’s Book Week 2018, if a little belatedly. And boy did we use ALL our new space post-renovations!! What an incredible crowd we had, with well over a hundred budding authors and illustrators and their families joining us for a great afternoon.
Andrew and Ben entertained us and shared what it was like to collaborate to create a book like Real Pigeons – and even created a whole new pigeon character with the help of the crowd – perhaps we’ll see a nose-shaped pigeon with the superpower of ‘super snoring’ in one of the next books?! (Real Pigeons Eat Danger, Book 2, will be out in November)
But of course, everyone was also there to hear the announcement of the winners of this year’s Story Writing Competition. With a record 195 entries across 5 categories from lower primary to upper secondary, we certainly had a massive task on our hands deciding on the winners. If we could, we’d give EVERYONE a prize, but for those who missed out this year – keep honing your skills and delving into that imagination and maybe next year will be YOUR year!!
So congratulations to the winners for this year, who were as follows:
(click on the individual titles to read the story)
Thanks to everyone for being involved in our Story Competition this year – it is truly one of our favourite times of year and we feel so blessed to be a part of a community that is so invested in reading, writing and the arts!! Bring on 2019!!!
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