A Spalding youngster has been chosen as a runner-up in a national competition.
Children from Years 3, 4 and 5 at Spalding Parish Church of England Day School took part in the ALCS 2015 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Shadowing Competition which asked budding young journalists to tell them: “What reading means to you!”
They were looking for personal accounts which engaged the reader from start to finish.
Michal Chamera was one of two runners-up from more than 600 entries. He received the complete collection of Carnegie and Greenaway shortlisted books.
His article was published online at www.alcs.co.uk/whatreadingmeanstome.aspx and in their newsletter which is sent to over 40,000 writers each month.
What reading means to me
by Michal Chamera
Reading is fun and takes me away.
When you start you can’t stop.
It is like the words block your ears and mouth, you cannot feel anything.
It is like you’re the only one around, it teleports you to another world.
You forget everything and read and read.
I prefer fiction with pictures and not long, boring books.
I prefer fiction like Horrid Henry and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
They have a lot of humour, are funny and of course, have pictures.
There are a lot of authors out there and my favourites out of three are Roald Dahl, Francesca Simon and Jeff Kinney.
He amazed me with Diary of a Wimpy Kid, most of my school prefer that book and I love it.
I would like to thank all the authors for writing books.
I would like to thank Conrad Gesser for inventing the pencil and Laszlo Biro for inventing pens.
Thank you Cai Lun for inventing paper and thank you to the Greeks for inventing the alphabet that we use today.
