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Great News: Guantanamo Boy has been shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award. The other books are: Solace Of The Road by Siobhan Dowd, Troubador by Mary Hoffman and The Ask And The Answer by Patrick Ness. www.costabookawards.com How fantastic is that? You might want to take a look at My Week in The Sunday Times. entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6936377.ece 17th November 2009 Chuffed is too small a word to describe how delighted I am that Guantanamo Boy has been longlisted for the 2010 CILIP Carnegie Medal, so here goes; I’m over the moon, thrilled, amazed and tickled pink, too. The book is also longlisted for: The Wirral Paperback of The Year Award. Plus, shortlisted for the following: Southern Schools Book Award North East Teenage Book Award Angus Book Award . . . All of which are just as exciting! Cambridge Festival of Ideas - University of Cambridge, Cambridge The Cambridge Festival of Ideas runs from 21st October to 1st November and celebrates the arts, humanities and social sciences with a range of fantastic free activities for people of all ages. www.festivalofideas.org Saturday 24th October 2009 Lady Mitchell Hall, the Sidgwick Site in central Cambridge. Talks by Michael Morpugo, Caroline Lawrence, Patrick Ness and me . . . 3pm - 4pm Writers in conversation: Anna Perera, author of Guantanamo Boy, will be interviewed by Michael White, The Guardian's political editor, about her work and about how writers can get children interested in politics. Ages 14+ www.childrenandarts.org.uk/events/event/9311/1 Reprieve - The Human Face of Death Row: launch night 2 Jul 2009 ... Anna Perera, author of Guantánamo Boy, described the exhibition as a fine example of the power of art: "Men and children, ... www.reprieve.org.uk/2009_07_02clairephillipslaunchnight Great News! Guantanamo Boy has been shortlisted for the Southern Schools Book Award, January 2010 The SSBA is a group of 39 schools from both the independent and state sectors of education across the South East of England. The other titles are: Sally Gardner – The Red Necklace Damien Kelleher – Life Interrupted Sophie McKenzie – Blood Ties Rachel Ward - Numbers Schools from France and South Africa are shadowing the award. 24th June 2009 Visiting Sherfield School, Hants. 20th June 2009 Hanging out and signing books at the SLA Conference, Surrey University. 4th June 2009 And the heat continues... Washington Didn't Want You to See This Guantanamo Photo www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/06/03-1 Cheney Led Briefings of Lawmakers to Defend Interrogation Techniques www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/06/03-6 Hay Festival 21 - 31st May 2009 Thursday 28th May at 4pm Teen writing legend Melvin Burgess will be discussing raw realism in teen literature with Anna Perera and Lucy Christopher. A Spinebreakers event. Tickets £4 www.hayfestival.com 27th May 2009 Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London I'm really looking forward to attending the Muslim Writers Awards where Shannon Park who published GB, will present Puffin's unpublished children's book prize. www.muslimwritersawards.co.uk 26th May 2009 Winchester University 6-9pm I'll be talking to students on the MA Writing For Children course which I did ten years ago and can't recommend highly enough. www.winchester.ac.uk 11th May 2009 Just received the German cover for Guantanamo Boy published there in July. Brilliant.  www.guantanamoboy.co.uk Feature. Should historical children’s novels deal with real - life, adult subjects? Article by Anna Perera: Waterstone’s Magazine Anna is available for school visits, talks, events. Their Stories Must Be Told Anna Perera, author of Guantanamo Boy, and Morris Gleitzman, author of Once and its sequel Then, discussed their books at a crowded event hosted by Puffin. Book Brunch article: Essential stories at Puffin  New release February 2009 Guantanamo Boy - Published by Puffin 'Children's authors and their publishers don't shy away from tackling difficult subjects and this week Puffin bought a novel which exposes the shame of the US forces' detention centre in Cuba. Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera tells the story of 15-year old Khalid, a Muslim boy born in Rochdale, who is abducted while on holiday in Pakistan with his family and held for two years without charge'. Independent July 2008 The Night The Lights Went Out - Shortlisted for the Dundee City of Discovery Picture Book Awards 2008 The Picture Book Award aims to provide opportunities to engage young people and picture books.  Children with the shortlisted books |
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