Sizzling on the heels of the shock information of the Costa Guide Awards being scrapped after 50 years, it was introduced in the present day, that after 22 years, the Blue Peter Guide Awards have been cancelled.
The twenty first Century hast not been variety to e-book awards that acknowledge youngsters’s literature.
The primary to fall was The Nestlé Smarties Guide Prize which ran from 1985 to 2007.
The Booktrust Teenage Prize ran from 2003 to 2010
The Roald Dahl Humorous Prize ran from 2008 to 2013.
The Guardian Kids’s Fiction Prize ran from 1967 to 2016.
I’ve been within the sponsorship deal for the Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Awards with Yoto that was introduced in February and have been poking round discovering extra info since then. The collapse of the Costa and Blue Peter Awards reveals how important monetary safety for e-book awards is to futureproof awards towards rising prices and different points that may inevitable come up.
Irrespective of how worthy and fashionable e-book awards are, the straightforward reality is that they don’t seem to be low-cost, and irrespective of the great intentions or with one of the best will on this planet, for those who can not fund them adequately then they may fall.
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