This year over 900 children sent in their votes for the five shortlisted books. From the reviews on our blog we can see why the children enjoyed Steve's book so much.
Steve was presented with the award at a ceremony held in Woking on 30th April. This was a fun event, with all the shortlisted authors (Atinuke, Alex T Smith, Chris Higgins, Sian Pattenden and Steve Hartley) either taking part or sending messages of thanks. Both Steve and Sian came to the event and entertained us with stories about their lives as writers. All of the Champion schools also came to the ceremony and the children gave fantastic presentations and showed videos they had created about the shortlisted books.
Following the award presentation Steve sent us this message of thanks.
Hi Everyone!
I just wanted to say a huge, mega “thank you” for making Oliver Fibbs Attack of the Alien Brain the 2014 Surrey Libraries Children’s Book of the Year. I am absolutely chuffed to bits!
I really didn’t expect to win because the other books were all so brilliant. But I don’t need to tell you that, do I? You read them all!
Your presentations were fab: tap-dancing, magic, acting, stories, illustrations, TV adverts, and fancy rocks! You all clearly had loads of fun doing activities based on the five short-listed books. That is what awards like this are all about – showing how great stories are. Oliver Fibbs won the
award, but books were the real winners.
Thank you once again, and KEEP READING!!!
Steve Hartley
(a.k.a. "The Fibster")
Well done to Steve and thank you to all of our five shortlisted authors for writing such great books and being involved with this years Off the Page Surrey Libraries' Children's Book Award. A big thank you to all the schools and Chatterbooks groups involved in championing the award too. The reviews and art you have shared on this blog have been brilliant.
I just wanted to say a huge, mega “thank you” for making Oliver Fibbs Attack of the Alien Brain the 2014 Surrey Libraries Children’s Book of the Year. I am absolutely chuffed to bits!
I really didn’t expect to win because the other books were all so brilliant. But I don’t need to tell you that, do I? You read them all!
Your presentations were fab: tap-dancing, magic, acting, stories, illustrations, TV adverts, and fancy rocks! You all clearly had loads of fun doing activities based on the five short-listed books. That is what awards like this are all about – showing how great stories are. Oliver Fibbs won the
award, but books were the real winners.
Thank you once again, and KEEP READING!!!
Steve Hartley
(a.k.a. "The Fibster")
Well done to Steve and thank you to all of our five shortlisted authors for writing such great books and being involved with this years Off the Page Surrey Libraries' Children's Book Award. A big thank you to all the schools and Chatterbooks groups involved in championing the award too. The reviews and art you have shared on this blog have been brilliant.
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