Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

Hot on the heels of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize comes the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, which yesterday went to Andy Mulligan for Return to Ribblestrop. According to this Guardian article, it's "a teacher's vision of life at the most inappropriate boarding school he could imagine – think tots of rum to keep the pupils warm, regular circus training and panthers giving birth." Another article explains why Mulligan thinks boarding schools are the perfect setting for a yarn.

We have all three of the Andy Mulligan books below in the library - they sound like rollicking reads.

Film news

Last week, Booktrust published a list of ten favourite children's books made into films. You can see what they were from the slide show below - and all are available to borrow from Jordanhill Library. Do you agree with the choices? Are there other books which were made into better films - or do you just prefer to read the book and imagine the characters yourself?



More films are in the pipeline - Working Title Films and PeaPie Films have acquired the rights to Andy Mulligan's Trash and casting is well under way for the film version of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. This has not been without controversy, as the comments to the article show but, as suggested above, many people have their own images of the characters and won't be happy with an actor who doesn't fit that. I have to admit, the chosen actors look a bit too perfect and shiny for me