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Press Release
06/17/2008
Calling All Young Book Lovers: Britain's Biggest Book Awards Needs You!
London, June 17th 2008: Are you an avid reader? Do have strong views on what makes a great book? Are you aged between nine and 13? If so, then you might be just the kind of person we're looking for!
Costa, the UK's largest and fastest-growing coffee shop brand, is searching for three budding judges to join the panel that will select the prestigious 2008 Costa Children's Book Award winner. Past winners of the Award include Philip Pullman, JK Rowling, Michael Morpurgo and Roald Dahl.
Our three young judges will need to read up to 12 books during September and October and attend a judging meeting in central London where they'll sit alongside this year's three adult judges: author Victoria Hislop, children's book buyer John Newman of Newham Bookshop and Northamptonshire Schools Library Service Adviser, Sue Polchow.
In addition to the tough task of selecting the best children's book published in the last 12 months, the three lucky winners will also receive an all expenses paid trip to London to attend the glittering 2008 Costa Book of the Year awards ceremony. They'll get the chance to attend the gala dinner and rub shoulders with authors and celebrities and each take home ?100 worth of book tokens.
It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for all budding book fans!
All you need to do is write a 200-word review of a book you have recently enjoyed and enter it via the Costa Book Awards website: http://www.costabookawards.com.
The three young judges will be chosen by a panel including best-selling children's author, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, and Costa Book Awards Director, Bud McLintock.
The deadline for entries is midnight on 8th August 2008. So get writing! We're waiting to hear from you!
-ENDS-
For further press information, please contact:
Amanda Johnson
Costa Book Awards Press and Publicity
Telephone: 07715 922180 (mobile)
Email: amanda@amandajohnsonpr.com
Young Judges' Competition:
*For full terms and conditions, go to http://www.costabookawards.com
The Costa Book Awards:
*The Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, were established in 1971 to encourage, promote and celebrate the best contemporary British writing.
*The Costa Book Awards have the single aim of celebrating the most enjoyable books of the last year by writers based in the UK and Ireland and have five categories: Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book.
*The 2007 winner of the Costa Book of the Year was A.L. Kennedy for Day (Cape).
About Costa:
* Costa is now officially the largest and fastest growing coffee shop chain in the UK. It opened its 1000th milestone store in March 2008 in Moscow.
* Costa was founded by Italian brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa in 1971. With over 700 stores in the UK and over 300 internationally, Costa has enjoyed a remarkable period of growth since it opened its first store. It now operates in 22 countries.
* Costa Coffee is the first UK coffee shop chain to commit sourcing Rainforest Alliance Certified Coffee.
* Costa's in-store baristas are all coached in the art of coffee making at the company's unique Costa Coffee Academy based at its own roastery in Lambeth, London.
* Costa has won the British Sandwich Association's award for Best Coffee Bar Retailer 2008.
* Costa has been voted as one of the strongest UK brands by experts and consumers and has been awarded ?Superbrand' status
* Costa set up a registered charity (no.327489) in 2007 called ?The Costa Foundation' to give something back to the communities within the countries from which Costa sources its coffee beans.
* Costa is part of the Whitbread family of brands.
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