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The Reading Agency

The UK’s longest running and best-loved book awards for children and young people is hosting this virtual shortlist event for young readers.

<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/334665813457"></a>Held on Monday 23 May in partnership with The Reading Agency, this free, interactive event is for the thousands of reading groups who are shadowing the Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards, as well as schools, libraries and bookshops.Length: 60 minutesHow to join: This event will be hosted live via Zoom to be streamed into schools, libraries and bookshops. You will receive a link to join the event in your confirmation email after registering.About the event:#YotoGreenawayLIVE will celebrate the Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal, and will feature a selection of the shortlisted illustrators talking about their books, as well as answering questions from children and young people, ahead of the winner announcement on 16 June.The event will be chaired by Amy McKay, school librarian and Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards national coordinator and feature shortlisted illustrators George Butler (Drawn Across Borders), Mariachiara Di Giorgio (The Midnight Fair), Danica Novgorodoff (Long Way Down), Yu Rong (Shu Lin’s Grandpa) and Peter Van den Ende (The Wanderer).If you would also like to sign up for #YotoCarnegieLIVE, please click <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/334665813457">here</a>.Also for the first time, the Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards has created two downloadable event packs to enable any shadowing group, school, library or bookshop to host their own in-person Yoto Carnegie Medal #ReadAlong and Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal #DrawAlong celebrations. The event template, which includes video challenges set directly by shortlisted authors and illustrators, is designed to engage children and young people with the shortlisted books in a fun, creative way. It can be downloaded for free <a href="https://carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/readalong-drawalong/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.For further information on the Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards please visit: carnegiegreenaway.org.uk#CKG22#YotoGreenawayLIVE

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