[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-branford-boase-award-2011-and-cake":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I shot some video footage of the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.branfordboaseaward.org.uk\">Branford Boase Award\u003C/a> ceremony at Walker Books today, thinking my friend \u003Ca href=\"http://www.candygourlay.com\">Candy Gourlay\u003C/a> and her editor, Bella Pearson, might win it for her book, \u003Ci>Tall Story\u003C/i>. Instead, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jwallace.co.uk\">Jason Wallace\u003C/a> and his editor, \u003Cb>Charlie Sheppard\u003C/b>, took the prize, and their book, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.flutteringbutterflies.com/2011/03/review-out-of-shadows-by-jason-wallace.html\">\u003Ci>Out of Shadows\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, set in Zimbabwe in the 1980s, does look well worth reading. But what made me go home and upload the video was the kids winning the writing awards. I thought, if I was one of those kids, being presented an award by the amazing writer \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jacquelinewilson.co.uk/\">Jacqueline Wilson\u003C/a>, I would want documentation of the event! Then I could - quite rightly - show it off to everyone at school. So here's the proof:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"991\"/>\\r\n\\r\nCandy and I chatted a bit with Peter (in the green shirt) who had written his story about the Battle of Culloden, and it sounded fascinating. (\u003Ca href=\"http://www.branfordboaseaward.org.uk/HBWC/hbwcstart.html\">Details about the six winners here.\u003C/a>) Ah! Here's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.branfordboaseaward.org.uk/HBWC/HBWC%202011/hbwcwinningstories6.html\">Peter's story\u003C/a>, along with the others just posted on the website.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/branford_boase_1-33bf945d66.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Winners of the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition for young writers\u003C/i>\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more photos under the cut!-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/branford_boase_2-6556ccf82e.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Shortlisted writers and editors for the Branford Boase Award\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/branford_boase_4-023158155f.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Editor Charlie Sheppard, writer and award sponsor Jacqueline Wilson, writer, journalist and award judge Damian Kelleher, writer Jason Wallace\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.jwallace.co.uk\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/out_of_shadows-1bd6579a71.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\nYou can see a couple more photos on the \u003Ca href=\"http://bookwitch.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/branford-boase-2011/\">Bookwitch\u003C/a>'s blog.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/branford_boase_3-962f500f5c.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Booktrust's Nikki Marsh and former judge and librarian John Dunne\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nHere's \u003Ca href=\"http://networkedblogs.com/k6nZc\">Candy Gourlay's blog post of the event\u003C/a> (mentioning each of the shortlisted books) and the website of \u003Ca href=\"http://wheniwasjoe.blogspot.com/\">Keren David\u003C/a>, another shortlisted writer for \u003Ci>When I Was Joe\u003C/i> (whom I met last year when we did a panel together \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/343549.html\">at the SCBWI conference\u003C/a>).\\r\n\\r\nBut \u003Cb>THE BEST PART\u003C/b> of day was being treated to tea earlier in the afternoon at \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thewolseley.com/\">The Wolseley\u003C/a> by one of the judges, \u003Cb>Damian Kelleher\u003C/b>, with our fab colleague \u003Cb>Helen Boyle\u003C/b>. (I'd done some \u003Ca href=\"http://www.kidsweek.co.uk/\">Kidsweek\u003C/a> illustrations for them.) MACAROONS! Cake. \u003Ci>Yummy.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wolseley_1-bc50dec420.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wolseley_3-8f9be0a0a9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wolseley_2-e2d634e497.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wolseley_4-1c83257e75.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThank you, Damian!! :D","2011-07-06T10:53:00.000Z","branford-boase-award-2011-and-cake",[],"branford boase award 2011... and cake!",1776628720462]