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)