Volume 8, Issue 1 December 2012 NewsleƩ er of the Teaching Resources CollecƟ on at Bishop Grosseteste University warm welcome back to a bigger, Abrighter, booktas c Hullabaloo!. We’ve been away a li le longer than an cipated, but we’ve got a really good excuse: just the small ma er of building a library! We had an especially interes ng me working with the designers of our purpose-built Teaching Resources Collec on (TRC), the new home of our wonderful children’s literature collec on. If you’ve not done so already, why not pay us a visit and see what all the fuss is about? If you’re reading this then you’re hopefully interested in children’s books. If so, why not join us at the next mee ng of our children’s literature group Book Talk? At our last mee ng we had great fun discussing the works of Anne Fine, Ruth Brown and Jackie Morris. The next mee ng will be on 15th January from 4-6pm in the Library Mee ng Room, when we’ll be discussing the novels of Michael Morpurgo and the picture books of Jeanne Willis. Hope to see you there! Happy Reading, Emma and Janice Inside this issue... • And The Winner Is… • BG Carnegie-Greenaway Challenge • Poetry Compe on • Building The TRC • When I Was A Nipper • Spotlight On Jackie Morris • Reading For Pleasure • Fond Farewells And The Winner Is... hilst we were busy building our Across the The Branford Boase Wnew library there were quite a pond, the Book Award went to few book prizes and medals awarded. American Library Annabel Pitcher for We don’t have the space to list them Associa on’s My Sister Lives on the all so instead we selected a few that CaldecoƩ Medal Mantelpiece (Indigo, we thought deserved special men on. was awarded to £6.99), the story of A full list of all the prizes awarded in Chris Rashka for a young boy trying 2011-12 is available in the Teaching A Ball for Daisy to bring his family Resources sec on of our website at (Random House, closer together a er a ©Indigo 2011. By permission of Orion Children’s Books. <www.bishopg.ac.uk/library>. £9.99), and the terrorist bomb tore it Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos. Newbery Medal Published by Corgi Yearling and used by apart fi ve years earlier. In the last issue of Hullabaloo! we permission of The Random House Group Ltd was awarded to reported that Patrick Ness had won the Jack Gantos for Dead End in Norvelt Closer to home, the children of 2011 CILIP Carnegie Medal for Monsters (Corgi Yearling, £5.99). Lincolnshire voted for the winners of of Men, so it’s with a slight sense of the Lincolnshire Young Person’s Book déjà vu we report in this issue that Special congratula ons go to friend Award, which this year went to Linda Patrick won the 2012 CILIP Carnegie of BGU, Neil Griffi ths, whose Fatou, Chapman for Loving Spirit (Puffi n, Medal - and several other awards Fetch The Water (Red Robin, £6.99) £5.99) and Tim Collins for Diary of besides - for A Monster Calls (Walker won the Dundee Picture Book Award. a Wimpy Vampire (Michael O’Mara Books, £12.99). Congratula ons also to its illustrator Books, £7.99). Peggy Collins. ©2010, Red Robin Books Loving Spirit by Linda Chapman, 2010. Cover design by Tim Collins by permission of the publishers. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. ©Michael O’Mara Books Limited 2010; All Rights Reserved. The English 4-11 Book Awards went to Jon Klassen for I Want My Hat Back More recently, this year’s Roald Dahl Cover Illustra on © 2011 Jim Kay From A MONSTER CALLS wri en by Patrick Ness, from an (Walker Books, £6.99 - we love the front Funny Prize was awarded to Jamie original idea by Siobhan Dowd, illustrated by Jim Kay Reproduced by permission of Walker Books Ltd, London SE11 5HJ, www.walker.co.uk cover!) and to Lane Smith for It’s A Book Thomson for his book Dark Lord: (Macmillan Children’s, £5.99). Teenage Years (Orchard, £5.99), with Illustrated by Jim Kay, Ness based A the 6 and under category being won by Monster Calls on an idea by the late Rebecca Pa erson’s My Big ShouƟ ng novelist Siobhan Dowd, herself a Day (Jonathan Cape, £5.99). (posthumous) Carnegie Medal winner in 2009. And fi nally, we wanted to be sure to An emo onal read, which has at mes squeeze in men on of the School courted controversy for its tough Library Associa on’s InformaƟ on Book subject ma er (a boy dealing with Awards. Begun just last year in 2011, his mother’s cancer), A Monster Calls these are some of the few awards not only won Ness a second Carnegie which celebrate non-fi c on books for Medal, it also won Jim Kay the CILIP children. In 2012 Mar n Jenkins’ Can Kate Greenaway Medal; the fi rst me We Save the Tiger? (Walker Books, ever that both Medals have been £6.99, beau fully illustrated by Vicky awarded to the same book. It was White) swept the board; it won not also the recipient of the NaƟ onal Book only the 7-12 category, but was named Awards Children’s Book of the Year, overall winner in the Children’s Choice the Peters’ Book of the Year, and a Red category and also the judges’ overall Copyright © 2011 Jon Klassen From I WANT MY HAT BACK by Jon Klas- sen. Reproduced by permission of Walker Books Ltd, winner. House Children’s Book Award. London SE11 5HJ, www.walker.co.uk The BG CarnegieGreenaway Challenge oin with us in celebra ng our new library who achieved great popularity in the 1880s Jby reading some great books! Children’s and 1890s. Although launched in 1955, librarians throughout the land gather each somewhat bizarrely no award was made that year to nominate books for the pres gious year because no book was considered worthy! CILIP (Chartered Ins tute of Library and Instead the fi rst Kate Greenaway Medal was Informa on Professionals) Carnegie Medal awarded in 1956 for Edward Ardizzonne’s Tim and Kate Greenaway Medal. This year was All Alone. no diff erent and the longlist for the 2013 For many years CILIP has organised shadowing Medals was announced in November 2012. schemes in schools and libraries to encourage The Carnegie Medal was established in children to read the shortlisted tles. 1936 to recognise outstanding books for This year we’ve decided to issue a similar children and young people. The fi rst winner challenge by giving BG students and staff the was Arthur Ransome’s Pigeon Post. Sco sh opportunity to read as many of the longlisted philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) fi nanced tles as possible and tell us what they think of them. All more than 2,800 public libraries worldwide (including tles on both longlists will be displayed together in the TRC, Lincoln’s own Central Library) having made his fortune in allowing you to borrow and read as many as your library the American steel industry. The fi rst Carnegie Library to card allows. You will then be encouraged to share your open was in his hometown of Dunfermline in 1883, and by views on special comment slips when you return them. We the me of his death half of the library authori es in the UK are also planning associated events to coincide with the included at least one Carnegie library. announcement of the shortlists in March, and the overall The Kate Greenaway Medal was established in 1955 to winners in June. recognise outstanding illustra on in books for children We hope to launch the challenge on 4 February so keep an and young people. Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was a eye on Blackboard, Facebook and the Staff Bulle n for more dis nguished illustrator and writer of books for children details in the new year! Win A £10 Amazon Voucher hose of you who have been Hullabaloo! readers for a while will remember our ‘First Words TCompe on’, whereby you had to guess which book’s fi rst line we were quo ng. For a bit of a change, and a varia on on the theme we’ve decided to switch to the fi rst lines of poems instead. So, if you know the name of the poem below, and the poet who wrote it, email us at <[email protected]> by Friday February 15th. A winner will be selected from the correct entries at random and will receive a £10 Amazon voucher. “Whose woods these are I think I know...” Reading Resource Attracts Attention ongratula ons picture books and the la er looks to our very featured in our at key transi onal C own Janice Family DiversiƟ es events like star ng Family Diversities Morris and ex-BG Reading Resource, school, or the birth of Transitions ‘Disability’ Reading Resource Reading Reading lecturer Richard a bibliography a sibling. Resource Resource Woolley (now at originally compiled All three are a great the University of here at BG by Janice, 200 picture books way of fi nding top to support children 100+ picture books to A resource of facing change, Worcester) on the value children’s families Richard, and a group picture books to quality materials to loss and value children’s bereavement Launched to mark Homelessness Week publica on of their of Richard’s students experience use in the classroom, Janice Morris and Richard Woolley ar cle Ten of the back in 2008.