{"id":643,"date":"2016-12-10T13:35:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T13:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=643"},"modified":"2017-09-30T16:53:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T16:53:53","slug":"alcs-educational-writers-award-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"ALCS Educational Writers\u2019 Award 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

As usual, this was at the House of Commons (very occasionally, it\u2019s in the Lords) and, this year, doubled with the new Ruth Rendell Award for Services to Literacy. The event was on 6 December.<\/p>\n

The winner of the Educational Writers Award was This Is Not<\/span> a Maths Book<\/strong>\u00a0by Anna Weltman, illustrated by Edward Cheverton and Ivan Hissey, published by Ivy Kids. The judges said of it that it\u2019s \u2018just not maths as you thought you knew it \u2026it makes you itch to take up a pencil and get started on the designs \u2026 it taught us more about [maths and art] than we\u2019ve learned in aeons!\u2019<\/p>\n

Runners up were: The School of Art<\/strong> by Teal Triggs and illustrated by Daniel Frost, published by Wide Eyed Editions; and The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary<\/strong> by David and Ben Crystal, illustrated by Kate Bellamy, published by Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

The Ruth Rendell Ward winner was Andy McNab, who sent a video explaining how as a once-reluctant reader, now turned best-selling writer, he has worked to encourage young people to overcome struggles with reading and learn to enjoy it.<\/p>\n

An interesting footnote is that two of the winning publishers \u2013 Ivy Kids and Wide Eyed Editions \u2013 are part of the Quarto group,\u00a0though they began as small independents. And both books are distinctly one-off and unorthodox. Can this mean that the straitjacket of illustrated non-fiction in series is now a little looser than it used to be?<\/p>\n

Nibweb members are likely to be keen to oblige if imagination, originality and idiosyncrasy are high on the agenda in future!<\/p>\n

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