Stratford Library celebrated this year's NZ Post Children's Book Awards with several exciting competitions and activities over the past week.
Firstly, there was a cake decorating competition that was judged on Friday.
Students both primary and secondary school aged were encouraged to make a cake and decorate it in themost creative way they could think of, with incredible results.
Twenty-eight cakes were entered in the competition in total, 11 in the senior (high school aged) section and the rest by primary school aged children and were judged by Janette Jeffares and Laura Law. Cody Oliver, 14, won the Senior Best Presented Cake prize and Harmony Mofit, 14 and Lex Van In, 14, won the prize for Best Tasting Cake with their entry. In the junior section Abbie Smith, 7, won the prize for Best Presented Cake while Ella Cartledge, 10, won Best Tasting Cake. Special mention is to go to Hannah Bloor, 10, for winning the Book Award Prize for theming the cake to match the Children's Book Awards. The people's choice awards went to Dion Bland, 9 and Georgia Rowland and Mikayla, 10.
The library also ran an "Illuminating Letter" competition where students had to decorate the letters A, B or C in relation to Junior Fiction Children's Book award finalist "The ABC with Honora Lee". First prize in the senior section went to Jeanna Howells and in the junior section the winner was Madeline Shearman. There was also a colouring in competition for the little ones with the same theme, congratulations to Abbie Smith and Ruby Saywell.
The staff of the Stratford Library would like to thank Cottage Lane for donating all the items to be used as prizes for both competitions, and also New World Stratford.
The library also ran a cupcake decorating workshop with all the decorating items donated to the library by New World.
