The Scottish Book Awards

The Scottish Book Award is an amazing award set up by the Scottish Book Trust. Three books are nominated by children in schools all across Scotland. This year (2015), several members of Flora’s Book Group went along to the ceremony (including us).  The shortlisted books were Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion by Alexander McCall Smith, Attack of the Giant Robot Chickens by Alex McCall and Pyrates Boy (it’s spelt that way) by E.B. Colin.

On the day of the awards, Kate, Abbi, Emma, Declan, Bethany, Ruairidh, Fraser, me Orla and also me, Nico went along to the Assembly Rooms in George Street with Miss Broadley.  When we got there we were assigned a camp. We were the robot camp named after the book Attack of the Giant Robot Chickens by Alex McCall

The other camps were ‘the safari camp’ after the book Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion by Alexander McCall Smith and ‘the pirate camp’ after Pyrates Boy written by E.B. Colin.

We played a ton of games and took part in a quiz.  It was camp against camp (against camp) and unfortunately the pirate camp won.  But…

Flora’s Book Group came second in the Quiz and received a mention. The trivia quiz had questions on the 3 shortlisted books and also things to do with the books. For example, Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion is set in a safari camp.  Because of that, we were asked about the footprints of animals in the safari.

There was also a pirate themed part of the quiz. The first round, we had to make paper hats and the second, we had to answer questions about the book and about pirates in general.

In another part of it, we had to write down what pirate-based movies were on the screen. There were movies like Pirates, a movie with scientists and Pirates of the Caribbean and Peter Pan/Hook.

My personal favourite (Nico) was the robot Quiz- partially because I was wrapped in tin foil!  That was the mad scientist challenge.  I was a robot and two random girls (from the robot camp) had to wrap me in tin foil.

Well… My personal favourite part of the robot quiz (Orla, duh) was WATCHING Nico get wrapped up in tin foil by two tiny girls about one third of his height.  It was hilarious (I’m sure everyone who was there would agree).

I really recommend going to this event next year, and good luck Flora’s Book Group in the review comp.  We only didn’t win because I (Nico) didn’t put my review in on time.

Yeah right…

Anyway, I really recommend this event to the next P7s and P6s. Thank you for reading, goodbye.

by Orlaith Thomson and Nico Hann (P7B)

 

 

Ayo's Review

In one of our previous entries we included Ayo's review of the Crowfield Curse by Pat Walsh.

We sent this to the Guardian Children's Book site and it is now there for everyone to read under Floras Book Group.

Here is the link:-

http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/dec/17/meet-the-childrens-books-site-members-groups

Copy and paste this link into your browser, then scroll down until you find Flora's Book Group.

Look out for our next review of Out of the Depths by Cathy Macphail.

                                                                      Your friendly P6 Reading Group

World Book Day 2015

What an amazing gathering - so many wonderful characters joining us for World Book Day



Mary Poppins with Katie Morag's Granny Island

 

 



Miss Trunchbull is on the warpath again.  Watch out Miss Honey!

 



We all had a wonderful time on Thursday to celebrate World Book Day.  So many children dressed up as a favourite book character and paid £1 to our charity  - Book Aid International.  In the afternoon, P6 held a book swap introducing children to books they had not already read.

 

On Friday, we held our Reading Hour, where older children were able to work with younger children on lovely bookish activities.

 

 

So, what's next?  P7 are looking forward to their workshop with Cathy Macphail.  We are delighted to tell you that Cathy won the Scottish Book Awards Prize for older readers with her book 'Mosi's War'.  We can't wait to see her again and I know Isla is desperate to have her books signed by Cathy!

 

Oh, and check out the Guardian website for their Children's Book Groups - we have signed up and already sent in 2 book reviews.

 

 

Hope you are all enjoying reading our blog.  Till next time - happy reading.

 

 

Your friendly p6 book lovers.

Scottish Children's Book Awards 2015

And the winner is........

 

Attack of the Giant Robot Chickens by Alex McCall.

Some members of Book Group were lucky enough to attend the award ceremony this morning.  We were in the Robot camp and many of the camp were dressed in fantastic robot costumes.  Alex McColl gave a prize to the school with the best costumes.  We are saving ourselves for tomorrow when we dress up for World Book Day.  Don't forget to bring a £1 which goes to our charity, Book Aid International.

Before the winner was announced, we all took part in a long quiz answering questions about the short-listed books.  We did very well and had the second highest score - well done us!

We are really enjoying Book Week and we have lots more to tell you, but it's lesson time again.  Speak to you soon.

Orla, Abbi, Kate, Nico, Declan, Bethany, Emma, Fraser, Ruairidh.

Lari Launches Book Week 2015

Our local author “Lari Don” launched Flora Stevenson’s Book Week 2015. She is the author of the “Fabled Beasts Chronicles series” {#Fabled Beasts} and this is one of the Kelpies books.

Visit her website @LariDon.co.uk!

 

Our Book Club also won the runners-up prize for the Kelpies Scottish Primary School Library Competition.  Lari presented our certificate to the Book Club with a selection of amazing books.  All these new books will go into the library, so check it out!

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J!! Khaliq & Fraser!! J