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My Sister Jodie wins 2009 Bookseller BookVideo Award
Jonathan Stroud’s Heroes of the Valley book video, directed by Leevi Lemmetty, was narrowly pipped to the 2009 Bookseller BookVideo Awards 2009.
Anna Lavelle’s video for Jacqueline Wilson’ My Sister Jodie won the award, which was held in conjunction with Play.com. Random House, the NFTS and The Bookseller. Double Cross by Malorie Blackman was also a runner-up.
The three film-makers submitted winning pitches to create trailers for the three Random titles last year, receiving £5,000 to make their films and £1,000 prize money.
Lemmetty’s wonderful video can be seen in the delightful YouTube video below:
Heroes of the Valley book review
Jonathan Stroud was born in Bedford and grew up in St Albans. He always had a burning desire to write a full-length work of fiction which he would have wanted to read when he was younger, and so after graduating from York University he embarked on a publishing and writing career in the game book and non-fiction department at Walker Books. He moved to Kingfisher Publications to edit children’s non-fiction, and for a time juggled working with writing; but Jonathan is now a full-time writer.
Posted: March 21st, 2009
Author: Floresiensis
Categories: Jonathan Stroud
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