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| It's a BIG book. |
about the lack of posts!
Been ever-so busy writing
and finishing off..
Tom Gates- Everything's Amazing (sort of)
WHOO HOO!
Brilliant World Of Tom Gates only went and won it's section of the RED HOUSE BOOK AWARDS.
It's voted for by children so I am THRILLED-AMAZED-PLEASED and every other happy word I can think of!
Meeting everyone was such a pleasure, I just had the best time.
I got to bring my family too. (We scrub up well don't we?)
It's nice for them to see me do other apart from just
shout, be grumpy and clean up after them.
All the other authors and illustrators all had top notch
books. And Michael Morpurgos speech, blimey I dream to be able to talk like that one day. All very inspiring.
Here's some pics to give you a flavour of the day.
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| Lily-Ella- Zak and Mark all looking SWISH. |
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| Windy south bank and hair sticking to my lipgloss. |
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| The Red House lunch. |
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| Book signing before the awards. |
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| Our table |
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| Picking up the portfolio for Tom Gates. |
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| We all get a collection of children's letters and drawings as part of the prize for being shortlisted. |
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| Lovely Catherine from Scholastic. I met Lydia Monks and Steve Cole who were both lovely too! |
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| Steve taking a picture of me taking a picture of him. Go to his BLOG to see his picture! |
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| Zak Ella and Lily at the lunch. |
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| Chris Wormell who wrote Scruffy Bear and won the younger picture book section. And Gill Lewis whos book SKY HAWK has also been shortlisted for the WATERSTONES book award. |
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| Annabel Pitcher- who wrote My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece. Also shortlisted for the Waterstones. Patrick Ness who wrote A Monster Calls and Jim Kay who did the brilliant illustrations - which won the over all prize. |
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| The awards were in the Queen Elizabeth hall it was MASSIVE. |
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| All the children had these blowers on the seats. It was NOISY... |
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| My editor Clare has just told me the latest deadline for Tom Gates Book Four... |
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| Michael Morpurgo |
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| James Cambell hosted the awards. (Yes the same.. remember my Bridget Jones moment from the Big Book Babble?) He asked questions to myself, Piers Ibbotson the son of Eva who wrote One Dog and his Boy before she died and Gill Lewis. We look like a panel on blind date. |
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| Steve Cole announced the winner for the Younger Readers..... |
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| ...it's me! |
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| Meeting keen book readers. |
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| My Tom gates stamp on Lilys hand. |
The older readers section of chat..
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| The picture book authors and illustrators on blind date. |
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| The WINNER! |
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| Patrick with his award.. tweeting I think? |
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| Mark and Zak. |
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| Catherine from Scholastic arranged a lovely TEA and fizz for after the ceremony. |
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| The sliver engraved award they gave me. |
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| Back at good friends house for dinner they gave us treats! |
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| Lily took these on the way home. |
What a day.
