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  A drumroll, loud cheers and applause accompanied the announcement of the winners of the 2023 Redbridge Children’s Book Awards. This year’s winners were:   Winner of the Children’s category:  Tyger by SF Said 'There are three doors that I may show you. You will find a different kind of power behind each one . . .'Adam has found something incredible in a rubbish dump in London. A mysterious, mythical, magical animal. A TYGER and the Tyger is in danger. Adam and his friend Zadie are determined to help, but it isn't just the tyger's life at stake. Their whole world is on the verge of destruction. Can they learn to use their powers before it's too late? Winner of the Teenage category:  Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. One thing she's learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist's job is to find the facts and not let personal bias affect the story: but that changes the day she discovers Jawad. Jawad Ali

  The Women’s Prize for Fiction is widely recognised as a champion of women’s writing on the global stage. The Prize, now in its 28th year, is awarded annually for the best full-length novel of the year written in English and published in the UK. The winner receives £30,000, anonymously endowed, along with a limited-edition bronze statuette known as the ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the artist Grizel Niven. The winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023 is  Barbara Kingsolver’s   Demon Copperhead ,   making Kingsolver the first double winner for the Prize in its 28-year history, after her win with  The Lacuna  in 2010. This year’s shortlist – described as “ambitious and hard-hitting” by chair of judges Louise Minchin – featured three debut authors alongside former winners Kingsolver and O’Farrell ( Hamnet , 2020). The winner: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 4.6 out of 5 stars   54,552 Chair of judges and author and journalist Louise Minchin said: “Barbara Kingsolver has wri

  The OPHS Library Online Newsletter August 2023 #25 Welcome to our   Online Library Newsletter Every month, in our Online Library Newsletter, we have reviews on wonderful books that we have in our Library, snippets of new books on the horizon and interesting information about lovely Authors and books-to-movies information. There will be links to access upcoming books that are in The Library and lots of book information that you will enjoy.  We will have competitions, winner announcements, links to short stories and poems and other interesting literacy information all in one Newsletter!   If you would like to add a contribution to our next Newsletter (September issue), such as, what did you read over the summer?  What were your favourite and/or worst books that you have ever read?  Would you like to send in a book review and/or a literacy picture? Can you think of anything else that would look great in our newsletter?  Then please email  ltaylor@oakspark.redbridge.sch.uk If