{"id":1140,"date":"2021-11-26T13:53:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T13:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2021-11-26T15:10:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:10:39","slug":"a-true-champion-of-childrens-non-fiction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A true champion of children\u2019s non-fiction\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School Library Association (SLA) awards were announced on 25 November, and Nibweb member <strong>Anita Ganeri<\/strong> was honoured with the Hachette Children\u2019s Group Award for Outstanding Contribution to Information Books. Launched in 2017, the award is given to an eminent UK writer or illustrator of information books for children, to mark an exceptional contribution to excellence in their field. Here\u2019s what the SLA has to say about Anita\u2019s work:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Known for her lively writing style and ability to relate sophisticated subject matter in an engaging way for children. Anita is the recipient of the Blue Peter Book award for a title in the highly successful Horrible Geography series. With over 500 titles to her name, Anita has also written extensively on subjects such as history, religion and PSHCE (Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education) topics and is a true champion of children\u2019s non-fiction. If you see her name on the cover of a book, then you know that it will be accurate and suitable for the suggested age range. For teachers and librarians, her name is a guarantee that you will be adding quality to your book collections.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sla.org.uk\/article\/hannah-groves\/winners-announced-for-slas-2021-information-book-award\/2399\"><em>https:\/\/www.sla.org.uk\/article\/hannah-groves\/winners-announced-for-slas-2021-information-book-award\/2399<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School Library Association (SLA) awards were announced on 25 November, and Nibweb member Anita Ganeri was honoured with the Hachette Children\u2019s Group Award for Outstanding Contribution to Information Books&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authorblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}