On Wednesday April 29th County Hall Truro was ‘invaded’ for a second time by enthusiastic teen readers from 18 secondary schools in Cornwall eager to hear the final result of the second Kernow Youth Book Award (KYBA).
Young judges aged between eleven and fourteen years old appointed by each participating school had to read all six books from this year’s shortlist:
Finding Violet Park – Jenny Valentine
London Eye Mystery – Siobhan Dowd
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac – Gabrielle Zevin
Skulduggery Pleasant – Derek Landy
Teacher’s Dead – Benjamin Zephaniah
The Witness – James Jauncey
Between September and February 2009 they were all busy reading, discussing, listening and deciding on their school’s particular winner from the six. Once individual school results were in, they were collated by the committee to decide the overall winner of the KYBA Award 2009.
The award presentation took place in the Council Chamber of Cornwall Council's New County Hall and traditional pasties, fruit and drinks were provided for over 100 ravenous students. Bob McCreadie of Pirate FM kindly returned to host the presentation. The Harbour Bookshop provided a display of the short-listed titles for 2009 along with the “long-list” for KYBA 2010. Marion Bradley of Mullion School gave out second edition KYBA T-shirts creating a colourful look to the proceedings.
Even though the authors could not be with us in person, video links with James Jauncey and the winning author, Derek Landy, added to the air of excitement and expectation. Everyone was on the edge of their seats trying to work out from the individual schools’ favourites exactly who had won overall. There was some great use of oratory skills, clever power-points and even animation in stunning presentations to start the proceedings from the judges at Wadebridge (The Witness), St Ives (Skulduggery Pleasant), Falmouth (Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac), Teachers Dead (Cape Cornwall), London Eye Mystery (Mounts Bay) and Violet Park (Mullion).
Finally the moment arrived when we all heard from our MC that the KYBA award for 2009 had been won by Derek Landy with the outstanding fantasy detective story Skulduggery Pleasant. This book was voted the winner by 11 schools. David Bevington, who had the original idea for the KYBA award, kindly accepted the delightful KYBA award (designed and made by Vashti Thatham, Mullion School) on behalf of Derek Landy, who sent his thanks via video.
Young judges aged between eleven and fourteen years old appointed by each participating school had to read all six books from this year’s shortlist:
Finding Violet Park – Jenny Valentine
London Eye Mystery – Siobhan Dowd
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac – Gabrielle Zevin
Skulduggery Pleasant – Derek Landy
Teacher’s Dead – Benjamin Zephaniah
The Witness – James Jauncey
Between September and February 2009 they were all busy reading, discussing, listening and deciding on their school’s particular winner from the six. Once individual school results were in, they were collated by the committee to decide the overall winner of the KYBA Award 2009.
The award presentation took place in the Council Chamber of Cornwall Council's New County Hall and traditional pasties, fruit and drinks were provided for over 100 ravenous students. Bob McCreadie of Pirate FM kindly returned to host the presentation. The Harbour Bookshop provided a display of the short-listed titles for 2009 along with the “long-list” for KYBA 2010. Marion Bradley of Mullion School gave out second edition KYBA T-shirts creating a colourful look to the proceedings.
Even though the authors could not be with us in person, video links with James Jauncey and the winning author, Derek Landy, added to the air of excitement and expectation. Everyone was on the edge of their seats trying to work out from the individual schools’ favourites exactly who had won overall. There was some great use of oratory skills, clever power-points and even animation in stunning presentations to start the proceedings from the judges at Wadebridge (The Witness), St Ives (Skulduggery Pleasant), Falmouth (Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac), Teachers Dead (Cape Cornwall), London Eye Mystery (Mounts Bay) and Violet Park (Mullion).
Finally the moment arrived when we all heard from our MC that the KYBA award for 2009 had been won by Derek Landy with the outstanding fantasy detective story Skulduggery Pleasant. This book was voted the winner by 11 schools. David Bevington, who had the original idea for the KYBA award, kindly accepted the delightful KYBA award (designed and made by Vashti Thatham, Mullion School) on behalf of Derek Landy, who sent his thanks via video.
Abbi - this looks great. Your post made me wish I'd been there. Maybe next year.
ReplyDeleteMy husband & I both enjoyed reading Skulduggery Pleasant and he especially will be very glad it won.
I love the KYBA 2009 logo - a funky logo like this would be great for the future Bookworm type project. I also like the bright T-shirt.
I really like the blog & think it will link well with the writing project. I look forward to reading more!
Great to meet you last week. I came away thinking what a cool job you have.
Keep in touch
Katina :-)