Kalbacher Klapperschlange

The Kalbach rattlesnake is an undoped Literature Prize, which is awarded annually since 1988 by a children's jury in the district of Frankfurt - Kalbach Riedenberg.

Background

The rattlesnake was the first German Youth Literature Prize, which was awarded by a pure children's jury. The carrier club " kids club Kalbach " as well as the price has been launched by the writer Regina Rusch. The Kalbach rattlesnake has established itself as the Youth Literature Prize as a positive evaluation criterion for publishers and institutions. Both the book covers like the idea of ​​authors and employees are referred to this award. As part of the promotion of reading in Hesse also refers to the German Education Server on the positive impact of the activities of the children's club and the pricing.

Jury and Review

The children's jury is made up of children and adolescents aged 8-13 years, who must have read at least five books from an existing list of 60 proposals to review these can. In question exclusively novels for children are 8-13 in age and only appearances of the previous year. Both by content (comprehension, traceability, voltage), and after formal aspects ( design and readability) is evaluated.

Awards

The prize is awarded every year in the fall as part of the local Children's Book Fair. The winners will receive a wooden rattlesnake. The author Cornelia Funke, the date 1998, 2001 and 2004, won the prize, described him as one of their favorite prices. You and Elke Heidenreich, Isabel Abedi, Paul Maar and Sabine Ludwig 've been to Kalbach and read aloud from their books. 1992, there were two winners.

Award winners

  • 2000: Joanne K. Rowling for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • 2001: Cornelia Funke for The Thief Lord
  • 2002: Andrea Klier for Stormwind
  • 2003: Victoria Hanley for The Eye of the Seer
  • 2004: Cornelia Funke Inkheart for
  • 2005: Christopher Paolini Eragon
  • 2006: Carole Wilkinson for the guardian of the dragon
  • 2007: Jeanne Birdsall The Penderwicks for
  • 2008: Ursula Wolter for Timona
  • 2009: Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid - surrounded by idiots
  • 2010: Sabine Ludwig for the terrible mothers of the world
  • 2011: Annette Roeder for a vacation in the closet
  • 2012: Sylvia Heinlein for mom 's secret agent
  • 2013: Nina Blazon for Laqua - The Curse of the Black Gondola
Literary award Matilda (novel) Arnulf Zitelmann Dragon Rider (novel) Jeff Kinney (writer)
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