Book Review Competition 2000

During the months of March and April 2000, Clare County Library in association with the National Reading Initiative held a book review competition for children and teenage members of all its branches. Readers were invited to review a book of their choice from collections of senior and teenage fiction in their local library.

Entries were divided into two categories:
Category 1: 5th, 6th and 7th class at Primary School
Category 2: 1st, 2nd and 3rd year pupils at Post Primary School

Response to the competition was excellent with over three hundred entries received for judging by adjudicators Cora Harrison and Eddie Lenihan.

Prizes were presented in the de Valera Library, Ennis on 17th April 2000, prior to a talk on the importance of reading for children by Robert Dunbar, one of Ireland's experts in children's literature.

1st Prize	Shane O'Byrne, 6th Class, Ennis National School, Ennis, Co. Clare. Book Reviewed: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
2nd Prize	Ann McMahon, 6th Class, Caherea National School, Lissycasey, Co. Clare. Book Reviewed: The Drumshee Rebels by Cora Harrison
3rd Prize	Joseph Scales, 5th Class, Ennistymon C.B.S., Ennistymon, Co. Clare. Book Reviewed: The Queen of Aran's Daughter by Maura Laverty

1st Prize	Tracy Davies, Second Year, Scoil Mhuire, Ennistymon, Co. Clare. Book Reviewed: The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
2nd Prize	Clare Fannin, Class B3, Colaiste Muire, Ennis, Co. Clare. Book Reviewed: Melody for Nora by Mark O'Sullivan
Joint 3rd Prize	Denise Fleming, Second Year, Colaiste Muire, Ennis, Co. Clare. Book Reviewed: The Magdalen by Marita Conlon-McKenna
Joint 3rd Prize	Siobhan MacSweeney, Second Year, Colaiste Muire, Ennis, Co. Clare. Book Reviewed: Under the Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna
Joint 3rd Prize	Marian Moroney, Second Year, Scoil Mhuire, Ennistymon, Co. Clare. Book Reviewed: Fields of Home by Marita Conlon-McKenna