CARNEGIE SHADOWING

Last week the EGA Reading Group took part in the Islington Carnegie Shadowing ceremony, held at Mount Carmel School.  Every year, groups all over the country read the books that are shortlisted for The Carnegie Award, and vote for their favourite. In Islington, each school puts on a performance related to the books.

The winning book in Islington this year was The Bunker Diaries by Kevin Brooks. The EGA group put on a presentation set in a bunker, with characters from each of the books arriving in the bunker.

Abigail  and Marjana , 10L wrote a short piece for the year seven members to perform, which was based on The Paper Dolls by Julia Donaldson. This is a picture book, which was nominated for the Kate Greenaway award.

The event was very enjoyable and the winning books were ‘The Bunker Diary’ by Kevin Brooks, for the Carnegie award, and ‘This is Not my Hat’ by Jon Klassen.

Becoming a writer: Katie Dale

Katie Dale was the latest author to visit EGA for Becoming a Writer, where she talked about her writing experience, which ranges from writing books for younger children, Fairy Tales with a Twist, through to Young Adult Books Someone Else’s Life and Little White Lies. Katie is also a trained actress, which made her readings all the more enjoyable, and there was a lot of discussion around the intricacies of the plot of Someone Else’s Life, which several of the students had read but had many questions they wanted answers to. She also talked about t various covers of her books which have been translated into several languages.

This was the last of our author visits for this year, the series will recommence with Sara Grant in September.