With 14 schools participating in the voting and over 7,000 votes cast in total, the winners for the
Red Dot Book Awards in Singapore as a whole are:
Early Years
Younger Readers
Older Readers
Mature Readers
Within our campus, the winners were almost identical to the Singapore-wide ones. The only difference was in the
Younger Readers category, our students liked "Lunch Lady" better:
and in the Mature Readers category, "Stitches" was tied with "Ship Breaker".
The Readers Cup competition will be held on May 10, 2012, at our campus.
Titles (a subset of the shortlists for Younger, Older, and Mature readers) for the Readers Cup event will be announced within the next few days (as we know you're all anxious to start working). Watch for more details about how the teams will be selected.
What about next year's Red Dot shortlists? Well, we've already set up Goodreads Listopia lists to collect suggestions. And our goal is to collect and consider these long lists by June -- and announce the shortlists BEFORE the June/July break. So you can be reading over the summer.
NB: To put a book on the suggestion list, you do have to have a Goodreads account.
Click below to access each of the lists -- and add whatever books you want. I've populated the lists -- to start with -- with books from the
Panda Book Awards (the China equivalent of the Red Dot awards) and the
Sakura Medal (the Japanese equivalent). Books should have been published in English in 2009, 2010, 2011, or 2012.
Questions? Come ask Ms. Day in the secondary library -- or email me (kda@uwcsea.edu.sg).
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