Good News for Super Stories!

Squeeeee!

I am one very excited Squidge, because Squidge's Guide to Super Stories and Becoming a Better Writer has been longlisted in the Lunchtime Book Club!

The Lunchtime Book Club is a Children's Book Prize founded just this year, with the aim to increase literary engagement among young children in Luton, UK. The prize winner is selected by the children who participate in fortnightly lunchtime book club sessions to discuss the entries.

I thought it was a bit of a long shot, because there's a tendency to focus on fiction when thinking about how to engage children with books. But I gave it a go, and it's now one of just eight longlisted books up for the prize.

Super Stories is in good company: the other longlisted books are being announced on Twitter today, and already I've seen Lauren St John and Frank Cotterill Boyce among them. Eeeek! If you want to twitter about it too and spread the word, then here's the link to Lunchtime Book Club.

It'll be a while before we find out which books have been shortlisted, and the Prize Ceremony won't be until February 2022, but keep your fingers crossed for me, won't you?.