Previous Book Fair Competition Winners

Doodle Books Competition Spring 2019

Winner

Stevan from North Shields

Liz Pichon herself chose Stevan’s drawing as the winner. She really loved his creative re-imagining of his favourite book’s cover! Congratulations Stevan!

Runners up

• Xin Min Chen from Dublin

Dream Big Competition Spring 2019

Winner

Macy from Cheshire

We loved Macy’s entry about her personal hero. Hearing about how kind her school’s headmaster is put a smile on our faces. Congratulations Macy!

Happy Monkey Smoothie Competition Autumn 2018

Winner

Morgan from Queen Emma Primary School.

Happy Monkey helped us to choose our winner, and they chose Morgan’s entry because they really liked the beautiful descriptions and detailed artwork. Congratulations Morgan!

Runners up

• Orla from St Anne’s Primary
• Isla from St Mary’s Primary
• Cerys from Parkfield Primary

Primary Competition Spring 2018

Winner

Kritika from Talavera County Junior School.

We loved Kritika’s clever acronym for a superhero squad of grandmothers – the Brave Intrepid Noble Granny Organisation (or The BINGOs) impressed our judges! Congratulations Kritika!

Runners up

• Nicholas from Hatchell Wood Primary, who created Squirrel Man
• Hannah from Vicarstown National School, who created Batwolf and Horsechicken
• Niamh from St Macartans Primary School, who created the Reading Rebellions

Primary Competition Autumn 2017

This competition is now closed.

Winner

Nikhil from Rhiwbeina Primary School.

We had so many fantastic name ideas for the monkey that we asked Happy Monkey to help us choose, and they loved Nikhil’s Bananaby. Congratulations Nikhil!

Runners up

• Penelope from Axminster Catholic School, who named the monkey Giggles
• Melanie from Urmston Primary School, who named the monkey Milo the Mischievous Monkey
• Ella from Eldene Primary School, who named the monkey Melony

Primary Competition Spring 2017

First Place

Grace, from Fife!

The Tom Gates song competition was judged by the author Tom Gates, Liz Pichon. Liz felt that Grace’s song was catchy, well written, beautifully sung and well played.

Watch Grace’s entry here.

Congratulations Grace!

Runners up

• Samuel from Seely Primary
• Sophie from Helm School, Meltam
• Annabel and Chloe from Pendoylan Church in Wales School
• Olivia and Beatrix from Botley School, Oxford

Congratulations to the runners up and to everyone who entered – the standard of the competition was extremely high.

Harry Potter Competition Autumn 2016

With nearly 2,000 entries, our Harry Potter competition was one of our most popular of all time. The standard of the entries was also extremely high, making picking winners a very difficult job for our judges. Well done to all who entered.

Overall Winner

Shriya, from Stranmills Primary School (Hufflepuff)!

Shriya’s entry really impressed us. Her three page essay showed her in-depth knowledge of Hufflepuff House, as well as showing how her character matches up with the values of the House.

“If I am put into Hufflepuff I will be able to make bad witches and wizards good by convincing them! I shall make Hogwarts better.“

Congratulations Shriya!

Find out more about this competition and who was a runner up here.

How to Train Your Dragon Competition Spring 2016

Our How To Train Your Dragon competition asked you to design your own dragon! The best dragon was then drawn by Cressida Cowell!

Our winner was Aisling from Corpus Christi National School, Dublin!

Here is Aisling’s Peackeeper Dragon:

And here is Cressida Cowell’s:

Congratulations Aisling!

Find out more about this competition and who was a runner up here.