Storylines Kids' Picks, with What Now
Storylines Kids' Pick Competition 2020 |
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Storylines and the producers of the popular TV show What Now are again running a competition to encourage young New Zealanders to read the best books by New Zealand children’s writers.
Storylines and What Now have developed the online competition, believing that engaging viewers to participate in a vote for a “Kids’ Pick” from the Storylines Junior Fiction Notable Books list is a wonderful way to encourage the What Now audience to read the Storylines selections for the best books published in 2019. What Now is a top-rating, much-loved, madcap, live two-hour show. Broadcast on Sunday mornings on TV2, its target audience is primary school children.
The competition invites young readers to choose which they think would be the best book for kids aged 8-12 years. To enter the competition go to the What Now website (https://houseoffunge.tv/home), where there is a link to reviews, presented by an intermediate school aged reviewer, of each of the Storylines 2020 Notable Junior Fiction Books. Viewers watch the reviews, or read the books themselves, and vote for their favourite book. Watch them all and decide which for you is the Storylines What Now Kids’ Pick for 2020.The reviews and online voting form go live on June 12th. Students can watch What Now on Sunday at 8am during June, to find out how to vote. They enter the draw for the book they would most like to read, or tell their friends about, on the What Now website. During June the vote will be promoted live on air over three weeks, with presenters directing viewers to the What Now website and the video reviews. Voting closes on July 2nd with the winner announced on Sunday July 5th on What Now (which airs on Sunday mornings from 8-10am on TV2). All entries go into the draw to win a full set of the Storylines Junior Fiction Notable Books 2020 (books published in 2019) for their school.
Teachers may wish to watch the video reviews as a class activity or encourage their students to watch at home.A full list of the Storylines Junior Fiction Notable Books is on the Storylines website. Lizard's Tale and Hazel and the Snails are two of the 2020 Storylines Notable Junior Fiction Books |
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Storylines special event features Kids' Picks |
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Author Stacy Gregg, winner of the 2018 Storylines Kids’ Pick award, features at a special event to be held at the Manukau Vodafone Events Centre in Auckland on 19 August. Stacy’s book The Fire Stallion was voted by young viewers of What Now as their ‘ Storylines Kids’ Pick’ from the ten books listed in the 2019 Storylines Notable Books Junior Fiction list. |
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Storylines and What Now: Kids' Picks 2019The readers have spoken; the winner of the 2019 Storylines Kids Pick, in association with What Now, is:
The vote was promoted live on air over two weeks, with presenters directing viewers to the What Now website. There they could find video-reviews of each of the Storylines Notable Books Junior Fiction titles presented by a primary school aged reviewer from Halswell School in Christchurch, where What Now is based., Viewers could watch the short, sharp reviews and select a favourite, with all those entering going into a draw to win a full set of the Storylines Notable Books Junior Fiction books for their school. What Now launched the competition on air on 31 March. What Now (made by Whitebait Media and in its 39th year on television) is a top-rating, much-loved, madcap, live two-hour show. Broadcast on Sunday mornings on TV2, its target audience is predominantly primary school aged. The show works hard to create a wide range of content for children of all interests and backgrounds. |
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