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The shortlists for this year’s CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Awards have been announced and they are all available to borrow from your local library.

 Shortlisted for the 2010 CILIP Carnegie Medal are

• Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• The Vanishing of Katherina Linden by Helen Grant
• Rowan the Strange by Julie Hearn
• The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
• Nation by Terry Pratchett
• Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve
• Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick

Shortlisted for the 2010 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal are

• Leon and the Place Between illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith (text by Angela McAllister)
• Harry & Hopper illustrated By Freya Blackwood (text by Margaret Wild)
• The Great Paper Caper illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
• Millie’s Marvellous Hat illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura
• Crazy Hair illustrated by Dave McKean (text by Neil Gaiman)
• The Graveyard Book illustrated by Chriss Riddell (text by Neil Gaiman)
• The Dunderheads illustrated by David Roberts (text by Paul Fleischman)
• There Are Cats in this Book illustrated by Viviane Schwarz

See the CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Awards page for more details.  The winners are announced on the 24th June.  So watch this space!

We had a fab night last night at our 3rd Manga ReCon event.  A good time was had by all and if you missed it - or were there and want to spot yourself - photos are now in our Photo Album. There were some fantastic costumes worn and made by the cosplayers including Hello Kitty complete with huge papier-mache head and the full cast of Alice in Wonderland.  The overall cosplay winner was Andria Watson (see her costume in our album).  The winner of the artwork competition, Natalia Anelay, couldn't attend on the night but sent along her picture with a friend (you can see it in the album too).

Storytime are back at the Central Library in Scunthorpe from this Thursday (8th April).  Join us every Thursday from 10am to 10.30am for stories and rhymes.  Everyone is welcome no matter how noisy!