M C Grammar World Book Day song

This is mad!   

The first ever World Book Day song. 

World Book Day Author and Illustrator Academy

 

The World Book Day Author & Illustrator Academy is a fantastic free resource.  So much help and advice on writing, illustrating and making, from loads of amazing professionals who are the the best in their fields.

Our favourite has to be 

Humza Arshad and Henry White.

How did we not know how funny Humza is???

World Book Day 2021

 

This Thursday, 4 March, is World Book Day.  

Here are some of the fab £1 books

 on offer this year.

Swansea Virtual Library

 

Swansea Virtual Library is such a lovely resource.  

Some amazing people read excerpts, and some whole books, aloud.

  The list includes:

 Michelle Obama reading the whole of 'The Gruffalo' .... no matter what age you are who doesn't love 'The Gruffalo'?

David Walliams reading an excerpt from 'Gangsta Granny'.

And Jason Reynolds reading from his novel 'Ghost'.  

World Book Day 2021

 

 

A World Book Day competition called Show Your Shares is launched today, Monday the 22nd of February.

The competition runs for four weeks with a different theme each week.  Every week you have the chance to win £100 of book tokens for your school Library and £100 of book tokens for yourself, and winning picutures get featured in the World Book Day gallery.

Each week there is a different theme:

Competition Week 1 (22-28 Feb)
Books That Make You LOL – All about what makes you chuckle! Your favourite funny reads, or you sharing stories in a silly way. Are you reading dressed as your favourite funny book character or giggling over your favourite comic?

Competition Week 2 (1-7 Mar)
Bringing Books To Life –  Bring your favourite books to life. Let your imagination run wild! [this seems like peak dressing up week, so I’m trying a bit of gentle steering!]

Competition Week 3 (8-14 Mar)
Books And The Real World – Take your book on a journey and share where you got to! This could be when you’re out for a walk or out in your garden. Or, show us your favourite books that capture far off lands. 

Competition Week 4 (15-21 Mar)
Sharing Books Together – All about the people that make stories magical for you. This could be your grandma on a video call, your brother/sister at breaktime, your parents at the end of the day or even your pet! Show us your most special reading time with a loved one who brings your books to life with you.

Enter here.

Elizabeth Acevedo

We loved Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X.

Here Acevedo talks about, and reads an excerpt from, her book Clap When You Land which has been long listed for the CILIP Carnegie Greenaway Award.

Acevedo was a teacher and is now an award winning writer and performance poet.

CILIP Carnegie Shadowing Long List 2021

 

We are really excited about the 

Carnegie Shadowing Long list

What fantastic titles

 and many of our favourite authors there!

2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal longlist (alphabetical by author surname):

Click on authors and titles for more information.

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson, illustrated by Kathrin Honesta 

The Space We're In by Katya Balen, illustrated by Laura Carlin

The Short Knife by Elen Caldecott 

The Girl Who Became a Tree by Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Kate Milner

Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo

Furious Thing by Jenny Downham 

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi  

On Midnight Beach by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick

Deeplight by Francis Hardinge

And the Stars Were Burning Brightly by Danielle Jawando

In the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido

Run, Rebel by Manjeet Mann 

The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Burn by Patrick Ness

After the War by Tom Palmer

Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds

The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys

Somebody Give this Pen a Heart by Sophia Thakur 

Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk