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Prop Competition: Win a Mockingjay Pin

mattlibrarian — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:49:25 +0000

To enter leave a comment about what you enjoy or have enjoyed most about working with young people in your library!

Rules:

This competition is International

One entry per person

The competition is only open to librarians (in the interests of avoiding confusion: ANYONE that does paid or voluntary work in a library will be classed as a librarian, anybody saying something along the lines of “Only a person with a MA in X can be called a librarian!” will be unceremoniously shushed

The Mockingjay Pin will be a putterfly pin version

The competition will run until midnight UK time on the 6th May

The winner will be chosen with www.randomizer.org/

Author Siobhan Curham Running Poetry Competition

mattlibrarian — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:45:30 +0000

To celebrate the launch of her new book Dear Dylan, Siobhan Curham will be running a poetry competition on her website

Entrants must be age 10 – 17 and the poems should be based on one of the following themes:

Friendship: Dear Dylan is the story of a friendship that begins online – in fact the whole novel is made up of emails between the two characters as their friendship grows. Perhaps you would like to write a poem about your own experience of friendship and how important your friends are to you.

Family: The main character in Dear Dylan, Georgie, hasn’t had the easiest family life. Her father died when she was little and she doesn’t get on with her step-dad at all. There is no denying that families can be very complicated. But they can also be full of love and good times. Maybe you would like to write a poem about your own experience of family life – good or bad, happy or sad…

Dreams: Georgie dreams of being an actress and the book follows her determination to pursue her dream, no matter what obstacles life – or her step-dad – throw at her. Do you have a burning dream or ambition? Would you like to write a poem about your pursuit of this dream, and the importance of never giving up?

Please send your submissions to: contact[AT]siobhancurham[DOT]co[DOT]uk by Monday 2nd April. And please give your name and age in your covering email.

The three winning entrants will each receive a signed copy of Dear Dylan and their poems will be published on her blog http://thefadedbookmark.blogspot.com/ in April as part of the official book launch celebrations.

City Read London Oliver Twisted Competition

mattlibrarian — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:11:21 +0000

‘The world according to Oliver Twisted is simple. Vampyres feed on the defenceless, orphans are sacrificed to hungry gods and if a woe-begotten catches your scent it will hunt you forever.’

City Read London is giving away two copies of Oliver Twisted, JD Sharpe’s new teen horror mash-up. Post your name on their wall, and share this link: https://www.facebook.com/cityreadlondon to be in with a chance to win. Winners announced on City Read London site tomorrow.

Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year 2012

mattlibrarian — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:53:25 +0000

The Young Human Rights Reporter (YHRR) Competition is an annual competition for young people run by Amnesty, in partnership with the Guardian Teacher Network and MA Publications, publishers of SecEd, Headteacher Update and Primary Teacher Update.

The award encourages young people to become human rights reporters, to investigate what’s going on in the world and bring human rights abuses to light.

The 2012 competition is now open and will close on 31 January 2012.

Mark Walden Aftershock blog winners

mattlibrarian — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:57:41 +0000

The three winners of the mark Walden Aftershock blog competition have been chosen by The Randomizer Congratulations go out to:

Anna Barlow (favourite villain Captain Hook)

CazApr1 (Artemis Fowl or Dr John Dee)

Natasha F (favourite villain Thaddeus Valentine)

If you could please e-mail me your addresses your prize packs will be sent out as soon as possible!

Zombilicious Competition Winners

mattlibrarian — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:48:58 +0000

As you may remember in December as part of the 12 Months of Halloween I ran a Zombiefy yourself competiton. The winners of this competition are:

Zombie Caroline
and
Zombie Kateria

Could you please contact me and I will send your prizes out as soon as possible!

Zombielicious Competition of the Living Dead

mattlibrarian — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:08:23 +0000

To stand a chance of winning one of three brilliant books (see below) enter the Teen Librarian Zombielicious competition.
To enter you have to submit a zombiefied picture of yourself to editor (at) teenlibrarian (dot) co (dot) uk

To make yourself look as good as I did in the previous post you can use the Day of the Dead Facechanger or Make me a Zombie. Any other zombification techniques are permitted although getting yourself bitten by an actual undead is not recommended.

Competition rules:

~The competition is global
~One entry per person
~Picture size must not exceed 1.5 MB
~Put the word zombilicious in the subject line of the e-mail
~The competition is open until the 15th January
~All pictures will be featured on the TeenLibrarian website
~Judges decision is FINAL

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Dreaming of a Twilight Christmas?

mattlibrarian — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:10:58 +0000

Enter Atom Books‘ competition to stand a chance of winning the Twi-white books.

To celebrate the release of these gorgeous creations Atom has put together a daily competition over at their Facebook page, which gives you the chance to test your Twilight knowledge and win fab prizes over the next four weeks. And these new books have also given them the perfect excuse to put together another vampy, shapeshifter inspired treat for you, before revealing some cracking Christmas surprises!

Head over to their Facebook page to test your Twilight knowledge and win prizes. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter to be the first in the know!

Booktime 2010 prize draw Nominate your primary school or local library for an amazing Eric Carle artist’s proof

mattlibrarian — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:24:28 +0000

This autumn The Booktrust is giving away 680,000 free copies of Eric Carle’s wonderful story book “Slowly, Slowly, Slowly,” Said the Sloth to reception class children in England. It means they will have given away more than 5 million books over the last four years.

To celebrate, they are offering primary schools and local libraries the chance to own an artist’s proof from “Slowly, Slowly, Slowly,” Said the Sloth, signed by Eric Carle. Just tell them where you think the proofs deserve to go! You can nominate one library and/or one primary school. Every eligible nomination will be entered into a prize draw and the winners selected at random. So the more nominations your school or library gets, the better their chance is of being drawn as a winner.

This is the final week of the draw, to nominate your school or library click here

Competition closes on Sunday 31st October.

Reading groups competition – win a flip cam courtesy of Booktrust

mattlibrarian — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:32:16 +0000

The Booktrust is offering teenage reading groups in libraries a fantastic opportunity to report on this year’s Booktrust Teenage Prize. It would be great if you could pass on this information to any colleagues running teenage reading groups in your libraries.

To enter the competition, reading groups just need to tell us, in 300 words, why their reading group should be ‘reporters’ on this year’s Teenage Prize for Groupthing. The reporting will take place from September to November.

The winning reading group will receive a flip cam which can be used to produce short videos of reviews of the books, debates, and events to tie in with the Prize. They will also receive one set of books and three sets of tickets to attend the awards ceremony in November in London.* The videos will be shown on Groupthing and the Booktrust website.

Please submit your entries to judith-shipman@readingagency.org.uk by 5pm on Friday 20 August.

The winning reading group will be announced the week beginning 23 August, and the flip cam and books will be delivered to the reading group in time for the shortlist announcement on 7 September.
There will also be a set of books for the runners-up.

*Please note that travel expenses to the awards ceremony are not included.