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The Breeze International Youth Festival and Leeds Libraries Information Service are working in partnership to present Breezereads – exciting activities, events and discounts for you, the young people of Leeds!

Have you attended any of our author events in 2008?  Let us jog your memory; Over 2000 of you met famous authors such as Frank Cottrell Boyce, Michael Morpurgo and Darren Shan or joined us for our first manga workshop with Tokyo Pop. 

There's lots more coming up in 2010, so watch this space!


Breeze Reads: Being a Writer
Saturday 26 June 2010
3.30pm,
The Carriageworks
No tickets needed, just turn up!
Gemma Head talks about being an emerging playwright from Leeds.

Leeds Book Awards
May 2010

 The winners of the 2010 Leeds Book Awards were revealed on Tuesday 25th May at 2 awards ceremonies at Leeds Civic Hall. They are:

9-11 category: Mondays are Murder by Tanya Landman
11-14 category: Malice by Chris Wooding
Breezereads 14-16 category: Bang, Bang, You’re Dead by Narinder Dhami

The ceremonies were hosted by popular performance poet Craig Bradley in front of 500 young people from schools across Leeds.A big thank you goes out to the authors who were there on the day to meet the young people, talk about their books and take part in a signing – Tanya Landman, Andy Stanton, Di Toft, Lucy Adlington, Damian Kelleher, Steve Voake, Sarah Rees Brennan, Lucy Christopher, Bali Rai and Rachel Ward

Many thanks to pupils from the following schools who gave presentations about the shortlisted books:
Primary Schools
Alwoodley, Beeston, Oulton, Pudsey Primrose Hill, St Margaret’s C or E and Woodlesford
High Schools
Benton Park, Boston Spa, Morley, Ossett, Otley Prince Henry, Pudsey Grangefield, Rodillion, Roundhay.


Tanya Landman was there to receive her award and admitted to having a “Kate Winslet moment” and feeling quite emotional.

Unfortunately neither Chris Wooding nor Narinder Dhami was able to attend but both sent statements to be read out at the ceremony:

Chris Wooding
“First and foremost I would like to say what an honour it is to be given this award. Malice is a very unusual book, so for it to be recognised in this way is fantastic.
Malice was a very different project to books I have written before. The juxtaposition of the graphic novel elements and the text proved both interesting and challenging to write. I hope it acts as a bridge between comic books and novels, to encourage readers of one to read the other. I’m very proud of this title, and its sequel, Havoc, so thank you for your support.
I’m sorry that I cannot be there to accept this award in person today, but please let me pass on my heartfelt appreciation to everyone who read Malice, and loved it as much as I did.”

Narinder Dhami
Thank you so much to all of you who voted for Bang Bang You're Dead to win the Leeds Book Award! I'm so excited and honoured to have won, but also feel very upset that I can't be with you because of illness. I hope you are all having a fantastic day, and maybe I will get to meet you all another year. Thank you once again.”

Many many thanks to all the young people, teachers and librarians who took part in the Book Awards this year, especially everyone who took the time to post comments and reviews on the website.
        We are always on the lookout for books to include for the next Leeds Book Awards, so if you’ve read anything in 2010 that you'd like to nominate for the Leeds Book Awards 2011 then we'd like to hear from you.


Nominations can be e-mailed to Debbie Moody – deborah.moody@leeds.gov.uk

Please remember to say which school you are from and who you are as well as which author/s and book/s you would like to nominate.
See you all next year at the Leeds Book Awards 2011!

For more info on the Leeds Book Awards 2010 visit their website

 
 

 


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