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| One of Nicola's Dinosaur cards available in the Teeth and Claws Shop! - Triceratops... |
Wednesday, July 31
Nicola's new shop - Teeth and Claws
Monday, July 22
Creepy House, Summer Reading Challenge...
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| Beaky Monster checking out the Creepy House Summer Reading Challenge material! |
Summer is here and school is out (if not quite yet then very soon, I promise!) and what better time is there to get reading? ... This Summer, Beaky Monster wants you to sign up for the Creepy House Summer Reading Challenge! and it doesn't cost you a penny. (The Monster Machine is honoured to be part of the challenge)
The theme this year is 'Creepy House' with stunning artwork created and brought to life by award winning illustrator and author Chris Riddell.
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| Beaky Monster getting ready to sign up for the Summer Reading Challenge |
So, how does it work?
1- It's really easy, your child can sign up at your local library, you'll get an incredible Creepy House poster illustrated by Chris Riddell to get things started!
2- Read six library books of their choice during the summer, collecting stickers along the way (all FREE)
3- Children who complete the challenge get a certificate and/or shiny medal.
and will hopefully inspire a lifetime love of reading for pleasure too :)
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| Beaky Monster overwhelmed by the stunning Chris Riddell Creepy House artwork... |
Visit www.creepy-house.org.uk where children can follow their progress online, find new books to read and gain exclusive access to authors.
Follow The Reading Agency on Twitter @readingagency
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| Some of the beautiful artwork with a couple of the Creepy House characters all by Chris Riddell. |
Monday, July 8
Read it Again! The Cambridgeshire Children's Picture Book Awards 2013...
Earlier this year my picture book The Monster Machine, published by Pavilion Children's Books was shortlisted for an award! and on the 4th of July I had the pleasure of taking part in the 2013 Read it Again! Cambridge Children's picture book awards. Myself and beaky monster travelled down from Nottingham to the beautiful town of St Ives (there is one in Cambridgeshire too) it was a huge honour to be shortlisted, and we had a fantastic day meeting lots of excited children from 14 different schools.
A huge congratulations to Jenni Desmond who won the award
with her beautiful picture book Red Cat Blue Cat!
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| Proud Beaky Monster with his runner-up trophy! |
It was fantastic getting to speak to so many children who
had read the books and hear their thoughts and comments, one little girl came
to tell me that her dad is an inventor too! which is very exciting, I wonder if
he might make a monster machine someday?
I couldn't feel my hand at all by the end of the day with
all the drawing and signing! but a lot of fun was had by all. Haha.
Now, there was clearly a lot of love for Monster Machine,
which was really nice to hear, including a number of very intense children who
came over to tell me that they had voted for the monsters! haha :) It was
fantastic to be presented with a runner up trophy and certificate, I've never
had a trophy before, so it's going up on the book case!
I would love to thank all the children who took part in the
Read It Again scheme, I hope it has inspired
some serious new readers and hopefully some future authors and illustrators
too!
Keep up the excellent work!
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| Brilliant Monster Machine artwork from Erin, Year 5 at Barton C of E School |
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| The monster name badge I got to wear on the day! |
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