2020 - 2021
The Readers Cup competition will be taking place in 2021 as a KAHOOT! virtual competition with an option for schools to complete it over the week of 10 May.
The Red Dot website has links to the practice Kahoots for this year's competition which can be accessed here: https://www.reddotawards.com/readers-cup/
Red Dot Voting Begins
Voting for this year's Red Dots opened on Monday, 5 April and continue through 5pm on Monday, 10 May. The winners will be announced on Monday, 17 May. If you enjoyed reading the books, let us know which was your favourite.
The Red Dot book awards is an annual event by the International School Librarians Network (ISLN) in Singapore. The Junior School students will be reading at least one of these books and voting on their favourite title. They will also compete in a house competition in April. In the house competition they will help their team by answering questions from the book they have read.
Early Years: 7 years and younger (although no one is too old to enjoy these ones!)
Younger Readers: Ages 7-10 years
Older Readers: Ages 10-14 years
Mature Readers: 14 years+
Older Reader Books - Short Description (thanks to Closet Full of Books)
Have a read of the slides below to see which of these great books appeal to you.
Mature Reader Books - Short Description ( thanks to Closetful of Books)
Have a read of the slides below to see which of these great books appeal to you.
Multiple copies of all of these books are available in the library and many of the Red Dot Shortlisted books are also available on BorrowBox
Scroll down on the table list below to see which of the Red Dot Books are available on our audio/ebook platform, BorrowBox.
If you are a member of the Singapore National Library you can also get copies of many of the books
You can buy them. Closetful of Books have created an order form here.
Click on the button below to hear Ms Mounsey read the first chapters of some of the Older Readers Red Dot Books. You can listen to them here to see which ones you are interested in.
Dates for the Readers Cup
Week of the 22nd March: Trials to get into the DCSG teams (12 students will be selected for the Older Readers Team) held during school hours this week - coordinated by Mrs Mounsey.
Mature Readers will meet on a weekly basis in the SS Oval Room at lunchtime on Wednesdays starting Wednesday 20 January at our Books and Bickies meetings
10-14 May - KAHOOT! Competition- virtually against other Singapore schools
17 May - 3:30 - 5:30 Readers Cup event after school: virtual author talks, winners announced and pizza and refreshments for the teams.
Important information
Some books will not have quiz questions so these books do not have to be read.
Older Readers - Monstrous will not be included. There will be 10 questions for each of the other books in this division
Mature Readers - Blank Canvas, Want, Underworld of Orpheus Black and Frankly in Love will not be included. There will be 15 questions each for the remaining 4 books in the division.
It is not essential but it is an idea that these students may wish to buy some of the books so they can re read them and become experts in them. The order form from Closetful of Books is here and above.