Archive for the 'Awards' Category

The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to
take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or
changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year’s
winners. Read them carefully. Each is an artificial word with only one
letter altered to form a real word.
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax […]

I have just discovered that I have been given the official badge of recognition as a S.O.B. over on Liz Strauss’s Successful and Outstanding Bloggers‘ site.
What does S.O.B. stand for? Successful and Outstanding Bloggers.
Aaah! That nice warm feeling one gets when one’s achievements are recognised in some way.
Thanks Liz.
The badge can be seen by scrolling […]

The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has recently announced the short list of books that are in the running for this year’s Book of the Year Awards. This list is eagerly awaited by authors, publishers, booksellers and librarians. Many schools and libraries puchase the books on the short list and promote them in the […]

Every two years the winners of the Hans Christian Andersen Awards are announced. These awards, one for an author and another for an illustrator, are given out by IBBY (International Board for Books for Young people). They are considered by some to be the children’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
2006 Winner of the […]