What is the collective term for a number of book awards? A clutch of medals? A plethora of prizes? A leap of literature? Whatever it is, with new book awards appearing every year, it looks increasingly likely that publishers are going to need some way of including multiple prize wins in an author's or a title's blurb. So far this year already (and it's only the 3rd week in) we have seen...
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The CKG Longlists are now available on the website - www.ckg.org.uk . You can find them in the "Press Desk" section. Some interesting books on here - and I'm proud to see that nearly all of the books that the South East committee chose for our discussion day appear on the longlists. Looking down the long list always amazes me in so many ways. Firstly, I remember the titles I forgot reading...
Talking of CKG… Our YLG branch had our nominations session and we were blown away by some of the potential Greenaway titles. I shall try to say something about this, but it’s hard without the books to wave around. (The best way to explain how wonderful a picture book is to open it up and say “Look at that!”) Even off the short selection we had, there were some great books, so you'll have to forgive...
