We send our hearty congratulations to Procartoonists.org member Clive Goddard who has won a schools book award for his children’s story Fintan Fedora, the World’s Worst Explorer.
He scooped the award for best book in the Key Stage 2 category in the Stockport Schools’ Book Award. The award, which has been running since 1995, sees pupils from around 65 schools, from nursery through to secondary, read, discuss and vote on a shortlist of books.
Fintan is an adventure story written by Clive though not, in fact, illustrated by him (the above image by Clive is from a slideshow he uses when out and about promoting the book). Clive told us:
“I’m utterly and throughly chuffed about the award, mainly because Fintan is my first attempt at fiction, and was only written in the first place due a lack of illustration work.
“The event evening was a little overwhelming. Hundreds of people, all dressed up in their posh clothes in a beautiful big theatre. Animated video nomination packages, golden envelopes, acceptance speeches and everything. Just like the Oscars but with Stockport accents, which made it even better.”