To quote the man himself, huzzah!
I did quite a lot of squealing and jumping up and down when I heard the news, sat at my computer desperately clicking away on Twitter to refresh the feed. The plan was to do a group announcement at 1.15, so that everyone would find out together, but Will, Ellie and Jess's poor Maths teacher made the mistake of teaching them in the ICT room today and so the massive majority of their time was spent refreshing the news page until they found out who the winner was and sent excited emails back and forth. Apparently they got told off quite a lot. Worth it.
The rest of the Shadowers gathered to hear the news and let out a massive cheer. They then demolished the huge, delicious and highly decorated three tier Carnegie cake that Jenna and Louise made.
It was amazing! The cake, I mean. Well, the devouring was pretty impressive too. Within five minutes there was NO CAKE REMAINING.
Hopefully there will be a video of the ceremony up on the site soon, but for now, do have a look at this Guardian article which reports from the awards. I love what Ness has to say about the importance of libraries and the absolute idiocy of declaring a wish to improve literacy while reducing access to books.
And our congratulations also go to Louis, who is quoted on the official CILIP press release of the award. Good work Louis!
Quote of the day: 'Miss, there seems to be a lot of cake in this whole Carnegie thing.'
Why, yes. Yes, there does. \o/
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