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 Ways
to Live Forever the movie is currently being filmed
in Newcastle
Starring Emilia Fox, Ben Chaplin and Robbie Kay as
Sam, it is set for release in 2010. See photos of author
Sally Nicholls on set with the cast! www.sallynicholls.com
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Find out more above the movie www.waystoliveforever.com
• Read all about the book www.waystoliveforever.com
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 Horrible
Histories TV
nominated for two children’s BAFTAs
The horribly hilarious Horrible Histories CBBC
TV series has been nominated for two
British
Academy’s Children’s Awards in the Writer
and Factual categories. The winners will be announced
on Sunday 29 November. C’mon Horrible Histories!
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 Warner
Brothers acquire film rights
to Shiver
Scholastic is excited to let you know that Warner Brothers
have acquired the film rights to Maggie Stiefvater’s
Shiver.
The film will be produced by Unique Features partners
Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, who created such films as
The Lord of the Rings.
Watch this space for
more news!
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Horrible
Histories™ Terrible Trenches
Exhibition at the Imperial  War
Museum
18 July 2009 - 31 October 2010
Now you can relive the terrors of the trenches at the
nasty new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. Discover
all the dire details of life in the blood and mud of
the First World War trenches... from both sides of the
barbed wire.
Don't
miss out - book your tickets now!
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Philip Reeve
Philip Reeve
has been busy up and down the country promoting his
fantastic new book Fever
Crumb.
Here he is at Stratford-upon-Avon
Literary Festival and with the children at Warwick School.
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 Here’s
a lovely bit of STICK MAN news!
New Ark Playgroup in Peterborough has had great fun
creating their own stick men. The children walked around
their garden and forest with an eco artist, collecting
bits and pieces to help them make a whole family of
stick people. They loved giving them all names and finding
a place in the forest for them to live.
Read more about Stick Man, click
here.
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BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD
Best Book With Facts:
Horrible
Geography Handbooks: Planet in Peril by Anita
Ganeri, illustrated by Mike Phillips
Most
Fun Story with Pictures:
Fleabag
by Helen Stephens
The winning author and/or illustrator in each category
will be awarded a special Blue
Peter Book Award Trophy on screen. In addition,
an extract from each of the nine shortlisted titles
will be dramatised on the programme.
The winner of the Blue
Peter Book Awards will be announced on World Book
Day, 5th March 2009.
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 GLEN
DIMPLEX NEW WRITERS AWARD
 Sally
Nicholls and Dinah Capparucci
attended the Glen
Dimplex New Writers Award for which Ways
to Live Forever and Aliens
Don’t Eat Dogfood were shortlisted
for, respectively.
Ways to Live
Forever won the children’s category and went
on to win the overall prize and Sally was named the
Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year 2008 and won €25,000
in prize money.
For more information please follow this link to the
Irish Writers Centre website: http://www.newwritersawards.ie |
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