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Bishop's Stortford College Senior School and Prep School Libraries

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This years Literature Live showcased lots of amazing performances from our talented pupils. Thank you to Kimba, our guest judge, for performing and for picking our winners! Congratulations to all that participated and to those who won!🎉🥳

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Children's author and magician, @rosswelford , gave this year's Festival a magical end with some fantastic magic tricks and lively discussion of how to create a story for ours and local Years 5 and 6 pupils!

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Children's author, Chris White, took our Shell and local Years 3 and 4 pupils on a creative journey today as they shared ideas for creating and drawing characters. The laughter never stopped as we heard Chris' hilarious poems! #dontputdaveinthemicrowave 🐹🦸🐊

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Happy Valentines Day from us! Here's some great YA romance reads available in the library 💕

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Our Picture Book Award ceremony this year was presented by children's author, illustrator,
and performance poet, @Lauradockrill who engaged pupils in a wonderful session, before announcing this year's winner... keep your eyes peeled for the official announcement! 🍪🤘

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Thank you to poet and novelist, Matt Goodfellow, @EarlyTrain for today's powerful sessions on poetry, performance, and the power of your voice. Our and local pupils looked to be very inspired! @Simon_Balle @StMarysRCDOW 🪽

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Our Pre-Prep and local Years 1 and 2 pupils were thrilled today as @csoundar kicked off our Festival of Literature 2024 with her musical storytelling sessions! @MFPrimary , @Windhill1 , @AvantiMeadows , @NorthgateSchool 🐯🎃

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Just one week left to vote for the favourite from our Picture Book Award 2024 shortlist.
We're thrilled to be joined by children's author, illustrator, script-writer, and performance poet, @LauraDockrill, on Wednesday 14 February to present our ceremony and announce the winner!

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Closing this year's Festival programme is journalist, television producer, and magician turned children's author,@rosswelford joining us on Friday 16 February. Ross will let Years 5 and 6 into the secret of how he devised his latest book, The Monkey Who Fell From the Future.

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Years 3 and 4 pupils are in for a treat when we welcome @chriswhitepoet to our Festival on Thursday 15 February.
A versatile children's writer and performer, pupils will join Chris for a fusion of mini-rock-concert, mad-cap poetry and a 21st Century-style draw-along.

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Inspiring pupils and adults alike with his performance poetry, award-winning poet and former teacher, Matt Goodfellow @EarlyTrain joins our Festival line-up on Tuesday 13th February. Matt will deliver a high energy event for pupils as he explores how to be proud of your voice.

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Internationally-published and award-winning children's author and story teller, @csoundar will kick off this year's Festival of Literature on Monday 12 February.
Chitra will involve pupils from Years 1 and 2 in an interactive, multi-cultural storytelling session.

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Just one month to go now until our Festival of Literature 2024!
We are so excited to celebrate the written and spoken word with our local community, but who are this years guest authors, illustrators and poets we hear you asking?
Check back later today to find out...

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Just one month to go now until our Festival of Literature 2024!
We are so excited to celebrate the written and spoken word with our local community, but who are this years guest authors, illustrators and poets we hear you asking?
Check back later today to find out...

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Here is our full list of shortlisted books for our 2024 Picture Book Award.
It is now up to our invited schools' pupils to vote for their favourites & the winner will be announced on Wednesday 14th February 2024. Good luck to all!
A reminder to schools, voting closes 2 February!

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Our final picture book of our Picture Book Award 2024 shortlist is.....
Penguin Huddle by @mossmontmomery and @SarahWarbie @WalkerBooksUK Our previous winners are back again!
Congratulations to all our nominees! @BSCollege #picturebookaward #books #education

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The final day of our Picture Book Award 2024 shortlist annoucements! Our penultimate nominee is .......
Don't Distrub the Dragon by @rhiannonfindlay @penguinrandom @sianrobertsart @PuffinBooks #picturebookaward #books @BSCollege #school

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We're down to our final few Picture Book Award shortlist announcements… Are You a Monster? By @guikarsten is one of those few! @QuartoKids

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Up next on our shortlist for the Bishop's Stortford Picture Book Award 2024 is… The Elephant Detectives by @ged_adamson @NosyCrowBooks!

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Up next on our shortlist is The Very Special Thing by #alexwillmore @Tate_Publishing #picturebookaward #festivalofliterature #books #education #reading #literature #school @BSCollege