Well, that was a lot of fun!
Friday, 25 March saw the finale of Biblio-Buzz 2022, the Alexandra Palace Children’s Book Awards, when 500 young people from schools across Haringey descended on the Palace.
The Award challenges the young people, aged 9-12, to read six selected texts, complete challenges, take part in workshops, vote for their favourite book and, finally, meet the authors!
Biblio-Buzz is a pillar of our Creative Learning programme, which aims to educate and support people of all ages across our community. In this case, using the power of literature to reach and inspire young creative minds! Biblio-Buzz is a partnership project between the Palace and Haringey Library Service, librarians, schools, professional authors, publishers and local books shops. A true example of what can be achieved when we work together.
Here’s an overview of how it all went down at the Awards, from those that were there…
The big day arrives (cheers Michael 😉)
Today! https://t.co/tnfbWC3Anu
— Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 (@MichaelRosenYes) March 25, 2022
Schools arrive
Our literacy ambassadors are at @Yourallypally in the beautiful @aptheatre for the Bibliobuzz Awards Ceremony – they have read, judged and will now award the winners pic.twitter.com/10lPWkKcRN
— St Mary’s CE Primary (@stmarysn8) March 25, 2022
Welcome to the East Court!
And we’re go with the finale of the Ally Pally Children’s Book Awards 📚
500 pupils from 21 local schools are meeting our #Bibliobuzz authors in the sunny East Court before the winner is announced in the Theatre later on… 👀
Stay tuned! pic.twitter.com/9yXbuYGCLi— Alexandra Palace (@Yourallypally) March 25, 2022
The excitement builds… Bun Break on arrival @Yourallypally to build our strength… Waiting in the East Court before the fun begins… Getting ready for our workshop in the glorious theatre @Fortismere_Sch @APChBookAward #BiblioBuzz pic.twitter.com/IhfrQyH2RP
— Gill Ward (@fortislibbie) March 27, 2022
Meeting the authors
Yr 7s having a fantastic day meeting authors at Alexandra Palace for the Bibliobuzz awards @Dukes_N17 @Yourallypally @aldridgeonline pic.twitter.com/q7NDPmq9QE
— Readers@Dukes (@Dukes_AR) March 25, 2022
Our pupils loved their visit to @Yourallypally to attend the Children’s Book Awards this week with our brilliant librarian Loren, our artist in residence, Declan and our Inclusion lead, Ms Posner. Smiles all round #literacy #thinkharris #transforminglives pic.twitter.com/250taX8glU
— HarrisTottenham (@HarrisTottenham) March 27, 2022
Here we are with Jack Meggitt-Phillips @MeggittPhillips who was the winner amongst the 6 authors nominated for the BiblioBuzz Alexandra Palace Children’s Book Award @APChBookAward. #TheBeastAndTheBethany got the most votes from the hundreds of children in 22 schools who voted. pic.twitter.com/vuwIkQNIrk
— Chestnuts Library (@ChestnutsLib) March 25, 2022
Discovering the Theatre
📷 Pete Jobson
Announcing the winner, as voted for by the young readers of Biblio-Buzz…over to you (and congratulations) Jack
An absolute delight to share stories and stages with @AGoodallAuthor, @bendavis_86, and @bookhorse at the @APChBookAward today! Thank you to every child who voted The Beast & the Bethany to victory, and apologies for celebrating like Evita/ some sort of deranged florist. pic.twitter.com/gwWhUfCJY8
— Jack Meggitt-Phillips (@MeggittPhillips) March 25, 2022
Embarrassing the adults!
How to easily embarrass a librarian – get them up on stage in front of 500+ students @Yourallypally! Our own Ms Swinyard can’t wait to help select another 6 cracking books for next year’s @APChBookAward #HaringeyReads #LoveReading #Amreading #Shortlisting #SoManyBooks pic.twitter.com/vtOnxjBsoC
— GCA_Library (@GCA_Library) March 28, 2022
You never know who you are going to bump into at Ally Pally
Lovely to bump into @MichaelRosenYes on our way back to @Fortismere_Sch after a grand day at the @APChBookAward @Yourallypally. A great way to end a day of bookish brilliance for our students! pic.twitter.com/FNx9II5kdO
— Gill Ward (@fortislibbie) March 25, 2022
It takes a lot to make Biblio-Buzz work, so thank you to EVERYONE who has contributed
Thank you to the @Yourallypally team, especially @JolleyGosnold.
Great hosting by @geckoofficial and @Si_Mole
The school librarians were so pleased our shortlist of books reached such an enthusiastic audience! @HelenSwinyard @fortislibbie @klereira @TanyaEfthymiou.— Alexandra Palace Children’s Book Award (@APChBookAward) March 25, 2022
What a day! Hundreds of kids buzzing about books. What could be better, eh? Great to spend time with @bookhorse @AGoodallAuthor and @MeggittPhillips. Congrats to Jack for the W. Thanks @APChBookAward! Xx
— Ben Davis (@bendavis_86) March 25, 2022
Thanks again to all the young people who took on the Biblio-Buzz challenge and our participating authors Ben Davis, Kereen Gette, Anna Goodall, Polly Ho-Yen, Jack Meggitt-Phillips and Marcus Sedgwick, plus our Biblio-Buzz Awards 2022 hosts Geko and Simon Mole.
Before you go…Biblio-Buzz roadshows will be held at local libraries throughout April. Speak to your librarian to find out more!
All the information you need to know about Biblio-Buzz is here