{"id":438,"date":"2015-11-17T15:18:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T15:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=438"},"modified":"2016-01-07T21:05:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T21:05:13","slug":"december-1-the-alcs-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"December 1 \u2013 the ALCS prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1447747863820_33773\" class=\"\" lang=\"EN-US\">Children\u2019s non-fiction author (and Nibweb member) Cath Senker is one of the three judges for this year\u2019s ALCS Educational Writers\u2019 Award. A prize of \u00a32,000 will be awarded to the author who has produced an outstanding example of traditionally published non-fiction for 5 to 11 year olds. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1447747863820_33773\" class=\"\" lang=\"EN-US\">Cath says, \u2018<\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1447747863820_33775\" class=\"\" lang=\"EN-US\">It\u2019s been a great opportunity to read through recently published books and survey the landscape of children\u2019s educational titles. Some are going for mass-market appeal with bright illustrations and humour, while others stick to the classic children\u2019s non-fiction format but add in some interactive elements such as puzzles.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1447747863820_33777\" class=\"\" lang=\"EN-US\">The prizewinner will be announced on 1 December at an award ceremony at the House of Commons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>STOP PRESS: Nibweb member Anne Rooney is on the shortlist, with \u2018Space Record Breakers\u2019 (Carlton Kids).<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Unknown.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-441\" src=\"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Unknown.png\" alt=\"Unknown\" width=\"137\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The full shortlist can be seen at:\u00a0<a id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1447919833199_15097\" title=\"http:\/\/www.alcs.co.uk\/CMSPages\/GetFile.aspx?nodeguid=86925a49-d280-4603-9827-8334ffa1f075\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alcs.co.uk\/ALCS-News\/2015\/November2015\/ALCS-News-Bulletin-November-2015\/Books-to-Broaden-Young-Minds-Educational-Writers?utm_source=Authors%27%20Licensing%20and%20Collecting%20Society&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=6410541_ALCS%20News%20November&amp;utm_content=EWA%20shortlist%20story%20nov%202015&amp;dm_i=76,3TEEL,1MVUNU,DR0IH,1\">http:\/\/www.alcs.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children\u2019s non-fiction author (and Nibweb member) Cath Senker is one of the three judges for this year\u2019s ALCS Educational Writers\u2019 Award. A prize of \u00a32,000 will be awarded to the&#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-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authorblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}