Our summer review-writing competition is back for 2022!
If you're a primary school pupil, get reading this summer and send us your book review. You could win a zoom chat for your class with best-selling author Zanib Mian, plus lots of amazing books for yourself and for your school!
Zanib Mian is a World Book Day Author 2021 and author of Planet Omar. She gave up a career in secondary school teaching to set up her own publishing company 'Sweet Apple Publishers' to ensure diverse characters from all minorities and backgrounds were represented in books for young children.
Have you read a book and wanted to tell everyone they should read it? Well, now's your chance! Send us a review of your must-read book and you could win books for you and your school.
You can use one of these templates for your book review, one from school, or you can create your own.
If there isn't a book that you would like to review, you can choose an e-book (Oxford Owl have some great free ones) or alternatively write your own short story (maximum 600 words).
Look out for Zanib's latest books:
Summertime book review
Some things to include in your review:
Paint a quick picture – explain what the book is about, but no spoilers please!
Opinion – why do you like it? Why didn’t you like it?
Who else would like this book?
Would you recommend it to others, or not?
What could you win?
Two winners will get the chance, along with their class, to take part in a virtual video chat with author Zanib Mian who wrote the Planet Omar series.
These two winners will also win £100-worth of books each for their school libraries, and £25-worth of books each for themselves.
Four runners up will win £15-worth of books each.
The winners’ book reviews will be featured on the Schoolreaders website.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
This is a competition for pupils of primary school age.
The child's name and age and an adult's contact details must be included with each entry.
Please also include the name and town of the entrant’s primary school so we can contact them.
Send entries by e-mail to competition@schoolreaders.org or post them to: Schoolreaders, Bedford Heights, Brickhill Drive, Bedford, MK41 7PH.
We would be very happy for any teachers to use the competition as an English exercise (more chances for your school to win!).
Please register if you would like your school to become a Schoolreaders partner school and receive free reading volunteers to support your pupils.
When by?
All entries need to be submitted by 5pm on Friday 30th September 2022.
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The Competition is open to any child attending a UK school, who is in Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2 on 1st July 2022.
- Entries must be submitted by 5pm on Friday 30th September 2022.
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Entries will be judged by members of the Schoolreaders Judging Panel. Our decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
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The winners and four runners-up will be announced and notified within four weeks of the closing date.
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If a school chooses to use this competition as a class exercise they must seek parental/ guardian consent for each entry and, if requested by Schoolreaders, must provide written evidence of such consent.
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By entering the book review competition, participants and their parent(s) or guardian(s) are deemed to have accepted and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.
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Schoolreaders reserves the right to cancel or amend the Competition, and these Terms and Conditions.
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Any changes will be notified to participants as soon as possible by Schoolreaders.