A children's novel by Booker prize-winning author Sir Salman Rushdie has inspired animation students at London's Kingston University to create short films based on the book.
Luka and the Fire of Life tells the story of 12-year-old Luka Khalifa who, along with his two loyal companions, a bear called Dog and a dog called Bear, is on a quest to steal the fire of life to revive his beloved storyteller father Rashid who has fallen into a deep sleep. The book was written by Rushdie as a gift for his son Milan on his 12th birthday.
It inspired students Han Byul Lee, Sam Falconer, Irsiz Heathershaw, So Hewi Lee and Dawn Smit to create this short film, which was judged the winner.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards - 2011 Awards
Click here to see the latest press releases about the 2011 award winners.
Monsters of Men
by Patrick Ness
published by Walker BooksGet video and audio from the ceremony, view the Carnegie shortlist or read more on the winners
FArTHER
illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith
published by TemplarGet video and audio from the ceremony, view the Greenaway shortlist or read more on the winners
Sunday, June 05, 2011
Guardian children's fiction prize | Books | The Guardian
Guardian children's fiction prize
Julia Eccleshare introduces the longlist of eight titles
David Almond at his home in Humshaugh, Northumberland. Photograph: Mark Pinder for the GuardianThere are eight books on the longlist for this year's prize. Established in 1967, the award has an outstanding list of previous winners, including Leon Garfield, who won the inaugural prize for Devil-in-the-Fog, Alan Garner, Joan Aiken, Ted Hughes, Philip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson, Meg Rosoff, Patrick Ness and, last year, Michelle Paver. It is the only children's prize to be judged by writers; I was chair of this year's judges Michelle Paver, Julia Golding and Marcus Sedgwick.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Shaun Tan wins Astrid Lindgren prize | Children's books | guardian.co.uk
Shaun Tan wins Astrid Lindgren prize
World's richest children's literature award goes to Australian author-illustrator, described as a 'masterly visual storyteller'
Shaun Tan was awarded the Astrid Lindgren prize for being 'a masterly visual storyteller'. Photograph: Martin Argles for the GuardianThe Australian author-illustrator Shaun Tan is the winner of this year's Astrid Lindgren prize – the richest children's literature prize in the world, with a purse of 5m kroner (£490,000).
Tan is the second Australian to be awarded the prize in its nine-year history, following Sonya Hartnett's win in 2008.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Shaun Tan Wins an Oscar | Herald Sun
Directors Shaun Tan (right) and Andrew Ruhemann win the Oscar for best animated film for 'The Lost Thing'. Picture: AP/Matt Sayles Source: AP
MORE than a decade ago Shaun Tan was an unemployed illustrator not sure where his life was headed.
In the end, life has worked out nicely for the 37-year-old born in Fremantle, Western Australia, but now a resident of Melbourne.
Tan, you could say, is an accidental Oscar winner.
"I started off as an illustrator with no formal training other than high school," Tan said, stunned as he stood backstage at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood with his gold statuette for short animated film The Lost Thing, won with British co-director Andrew Ruhemann.
The 15-minute computer generated and hand-painted movie was only supposed to be a picture book.
"I originally wrote this story in 1998," Tan said.
"I was an unemployed illustrator. I wrote it on the kitchen table of my share house, worked on it for a year, developed it as a picture book, which was then published in Melbourne around 2000. "
The story is set in Melbourne and is about a boy who, while collecting bottle caps near a beach, discovers a strange creature that seems to be a combination of an industrial boiler, a crab and an octopus.~ AAP
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N.B. View the film of The Lost Thing here.
Friday, February 25, 2011
An Oscar for Shaun Tan?
An Oscar for Shaun Tan?
By Chelsey Philpot --> February 24, 2011
Shaun Tan
Photo by Inari KiuruShaun Tan may have to make room on his shelves for an Oscar. The award-winning author and illustrator best known for his wordless graphic novel, The Arrival (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Bks., 2007), has been nominated in the Best Short Film (Animated) category for The Lost Thing, where he makes his directorial debut along with co-director, Andrew Ruhemann.
Based on Tan's 2005 picture book of the same name, The Lost Thing (Simply Read) tells the story of a curious boy who discovers an odd-looking creature on the beach—and learns about cruelty and indifference while trying to help it find its place.
We caught up with Tan at home in Australia before he headed to Los Angeles to attend the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony on February 27.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Debut writer wins Costa award - Herald Scotland | News | Home News
Debut writer wins Costa award
Phil Miller, Arts Correspondent
5 Jan 2011
Jason Wallace, 41, a web designer, has won the Costa Children’s Book Award for Out Of Shadows, set in newly-independent Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe.
By winning the category, he receives a cheque for £5000, but also a chance to win the overall Costa Book of the Year prize, worth £30,000, which will be announced on January 25.
The judges declared Wallace’s book to be an “extraordinary debut novel” and “unanimous winner”, saying: “This compelling portrayal of a nation in crisis gripped us from start to finish and has stayed with us since.”
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Monday, November 22, 2010
Louise Rennison has last laugh by winning Roald Dahl funny prize | Books | guardian.co.uk
Luck of the Irishy ... Louise Rennison has won the Roald Dahl funny prize for children aged seven to 14 for her book Withering Tights. Photograph: Linda Nylind
Louise Rennison's tale of a gawky teenager called Tallulah has taken this year's Roald Dahl funny prize. The Queen of Teen author beat Mr Stink by TV star David Walliams and Quentin Blake, Roald Dahl's own celebrated illustrator, to the title.
The prize was set up two years ago by the author Michael Rosen as part of his children's laureateship, and seeks to celebrate the books that make children laugh. As well as the seven-to-14 prize, it also recognises books in a six-and-under category, this year won by Louise Yates with the picturebook Dog Loves Books, about a dog who loves books so much he opens a bookshop. Yates, who said that she was inspired to become an illustrator by Quentin Blake, also beat her hero, who was in the running in the younger category with Angelica Sprocket's Pockets.
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