21st October was an exciting day as the nominations for the 2017 Carnegie Award were publicised.
At this point, it’s always a pleasure to see books that you’ve already read and enjoyed featuring on the list. Personally, I’m more excited by the number of books that are on the nominations list that I haven’t yet read – I can sense some busy library ordering coming up!
This early on in the process – with so many books that I haven’t read – it’s not possible to suggest which books will make the longlist, but I am pleased to see a number of writer friends have been included on the list.
While this part of the process feels like it goes on ‘behind-the-scenes’, I think it’s an invaluable guide for directing students to books that they might enjoy. For this reason I’m surprised that more isn’t made of this stage to get parents involved in developing a love of reading.