Redbridge Children's Book Award
Budding young bookworms were celebrating after attending the fifth Redbridge Children's Book Awards, organised by the Schools Library Service, on Thursday 3 July.
The ceremony, at Sir James Hawkey Hall, saw over 300 pupils from 16 schools and two library reading groups across the Borough voting for their favourite Children's and Teenage books published in 2007.
Winners:
Lucky Star by Cathy Cassidy (Children's)
Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers (Teenage)
A panel of authors, Jenny Downham, Anthony McGowan and Echo Freer, answered questions from an eager audience.
The winners of student writing and poetry competitions were also presented with their prizes by the Mayor, Cllr Loraine Sladden.
The writing competition was judged by David Fulton, lecturer in creative writing at Brunel University and the poetry competition was judged by Musarat Younis, a poet. Winners were presented with a book token and a signed children's book. All shortlisted students were given an anthology containing their work.
The winners in the writing competition were:
First place - A Light Flickered in the Distance by Antonia Perna, Woodford County High School
Second place - Starry Night by Tanya Li-Chay-Chung, Woodford County High School
Third place - Am I so Different? by Ruby Muir, Wanstead high School
The poetry competition winners were:
First place - Mazy Mirror by Slam Perveen, Woodford County High School
Second place - Reflection/Mirror's Eye by Chiraag Shah, Seven Kings High School
Third place - by Ahishek Ambekar, Ilford County High School
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