The Red Dot children's choice book awards

Click on each below to see the 2012 short-lists in our GoodReads account.

• Early Readers
• Younger Readers
• Older Readers
• Mature Readers

Books can be sourced in a variety of ways.  In Singapore there is Kinokuniya, Bookaburra, Littered with Books, Popular Books, etc.  Online you can order books via Book Depository (UK) and Follett Titlewave (USA) -- which are more economical than Amazon (which charges shipping per book).

Goodreads | ISLN (Int'l School Library Network) Singapore's bookshelf: all2012shortlists (showing 1-30 of 32) (sorted by: title) (cover view) via kwout

All school libraries in Singapore  -- and the region --
are welcome to participate.  

Voting will be from March 7-14, 2012, 

and the winners will be announced on Saturday, March 17th.


The Readers Cup will be in May.


Go to www.reddotawards.com for ongoing information.

Fwd: Invitation to Kids Read

From: Phoebe Kao <pkao@tiseagles.com>

Date: Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:18 PM
Subject: Invitation to Kids Read

Greetings from Tianjin! This is Phoebe again from Tianjin International School (Tianjin China). 

As the organizer of the 2011-2012 Kids Read event, I'd like to extend a personal invitation to you and your students. Kids Read is a literature competition focusing on recreational reading. Middle School students in grades 6-8 (or Years 7-9 if following IB curriculum) work in team of 4 to answer 100 questions in 10 different categories. The purpose of Kids Read is to foster students' love for reading through recreational reading and ultimately turn them into lifelong readers. You can find the practice questions that Nadine Rosevear (International School of Beijing) has generously shared with all of us on http://kidsread-network.wikispaces.com/Question+Bank. She will keep posting new questions on the wiki. Everyone is welcome to share the questions with all of us.

Unlike BoB, Kids Read does not provide students with a list of titles to read from, however, that's exactly the best part about it. We simply encourage our students to read so they can broaden their horizons. It may seem hard to approach it at first, but since there is really not a way to "prepare" them for the competition, we can just enjoy the fun without the pressure. 

The event of this year is scheduled to take place on March 9, 2012. Tianjin is not far from Beijing, the capital city of China. Tianjin was one of the earliest treaty ports opened to foreign trade and it still keeps traces of foreign concessions. Those architectures add an exotic flavor to today's Tianjin, 6th largest and fast-growing. If you can make it, I can arrange some sightseeing activities on Saturday if that's when you are planning on leaving.  You can send in your registration anytime, but in order to facilitate the planning, it will be a tremendous help if you can let me know as soon as you decide to attend. Feel free to email me or Nadine (nrosevear@isb.bj.edu.cn) if you have any question. 

It is my sincere hope to see you at the 2011-2012 Kids Read China Finals in Tianjin. 

Regards,

Phoebe Kao

Head Librarian

Tianjin International School

Tianjin, China

86-22-8371-0900 ext. 304

Young Readers Club

Experiences & Experiments Pte Ltd publishes a bi-monthly Young Reader Club magazine, which was launched in 2010.

Directed towards a young audience, it carries issues and views of young individuals for the 10 to 16 year old audience. YRC features themes fo each issue which include redefining disability, environment, history & heritage, cultural diversity, and the value of giving, among others. Because our mission is to nurture the next generation of writers, our mian features are stories from selected young authors in Singapore who have grown personally an professionally through the craft of writing.

Experiences & Experiments is also the organiser of two prestigious awards, the Young Author Award, and the DigiTales Award, endorsed by the Media Development Authority (MDA), National Library Board (NLB), the Book Council (NBDCS) and the Singapore Book Publishers Association (SBPA). Top prizes include a publishing contract as well as cash prizes. 

Catherine Khoo
Managing Director, Janus Education
Publisher, Experiences & Experiments Books
Founder, Young Author Club

Kids Read China Finals, Feb. 2012

You and your students are invited to join the 2011-2012 Kids Read China Finals, a literature competition for middle schools students. Kids Read is our very own reading initiative, thanks to the effort of Nadine Rosevear, the MS Librarian of International School of Beijing (ISB), China, back in 2009. This year's event will be held at Tianjin International School (TIS) on February 24, 2012 at their brand new campus.

Please visit the following wiki to learn more about the event and to read questions from the past competitions. These will be great resources to start up your own reading group and to start practicing. The wiki has a question bank and members are invited to add and share their own questions on books to this resource. It will also serve as a communication tool between international schools in China to share ideas on how to promote the KIDS READ program.

http://kidsread-network.wikispaces.com/

For more information, please send an e-mail to Phoebe Kao (pkao@tiseagles.com ) who will be the event organizer this school year.