Winning Words
A Clare County Library Children’s
Book Promotion featuring
The Bisto Children’s Book of the Year Awards 2001 to 2010.
The last decade has seen a host of excellent books suited to young readers from tots to teens receive the Bisto and its sister award the Eilis Dillon Award in Ireland.
The Bisto Book of the Year Award was introduced by Children’s Books Ireland to recognise talent in the field of children’s literature by Irish authors, or authors living in Ireland. The highly regarded and prestigious prize brings new children’s books to the attention of children, parents, teachers and librarians and indeed, to anyone who has an interest in good books for children and teenagers.
The Bisto Book of the Year Award presented
annually in May has been renamed the CBI Children’s Book of the
Year Awards. Authors and illustrators born or resident in Ireland, whose
books are written either in Irish or English are eligible
for consideration.
In this children’s book promotion, Clare County Library hopes to jog the memories of readers, young and old who may have connected in a special way with any or many of the featured books over the last decade.
The collection is worthwhile exploring, obviously because they are all awardwinning books, and also because the authors and illustrators are guaranteed to whet your appetite and leave you searching for more after you’ve read from this list of recommendations.
You will see that some of the authors included
are multi-award winners, some have received these awards for one or two
years in succession, and that almost all these writers have consistently
been at the top of the best sellers lists of children’s books
during the past decade.
“The more that you read, the more things you
will know.
The more you learn, the more places you’ll go."
Dr. Seuss, “I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!”
