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Books in the Wild Winners Announced!
Books in the Wild has finished for another year.
Books went roaming across Waitakere with some books found in truly wild locations like Karekare and the Waitakere Ranges.
Books were found in malls, on the street, in gyms, and around schools.
Some of the books had truly wild experiences being passed around multiple times.
Others went completely feral and were never seen again.
The programme prize winners are:
Winner of Most Books Read (Xbox 360 and games,she registered all 10 books – one of 22 students to do so):
Ekta Shandil (Year 9 student at Kelston Girls College)
Winner of the Every Entry Prize (iPod Nano, drawn from 800 entries):
Megan Au (Year 9 student at St Dominic’s College)
Winner of Read the Book? Now Answer the Question! (iPod Nano):
Bernadette Stevens (Year 10 student at Massey High School)
Winner of the School Prize for Most Students Registered ($500 Whitcoulls vouchers):
Kelston Girls College (the third year in a row they have won this prize)
The virtual library vouchers expire on January 31st 2010 so make sure you claim them over the summer holidays!
Here’s how it works:
The three R's of Books in the wild:
Read a Books in the Wild Book
Register it online
Release it for someone else to read. Hand it to a friend
or leave it laying around in your school somewhere.
Loads of books were released throughout Waitakere high schools in early August 2009. Students were encouraged to hunt them down, read them, register them on this website, answer a question, then release the book back into the wild for someone else to read. Simply by participating in the programme they had the opportunity to win some awesome prizes.
Books in the Wild is a local reading programme run by Waitakere Library and Information
Services that is similar to BookCrossing; the world’s biggest free book club! Anyone
can join the hundreds of thousands of BookCrossing members around the world. Go
to www.bookcrossing.com to check it out.
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