Book Award Event

By Francis, Year 7

Yesterday, June 23rd, I and seven others were invited to the Cambridge Theatre to see the awards ceremony presenting the Carnegie Award, the longest running British book and illustration award.

The previous week, on Monday 15th, we gave a presentation on one of the shortlisted books Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody at the Barnet Libraries Shadowing event in Mill Hill. Yesterday, we watched the ceremony with crossed fingers and had our copies of the book signed by the author Patrick Ness.

Winning the coveted award was a novel named Wolf Siren by Beth O’Brien. The experience was very inspiring, making me want to read some of the winning books and perhaps someday be up on the stage myself.