CBCA Sun Project: Shadow Judging

I learnt so much about what it takes to be a judge and the judging criteria for books, which I might use for later books! I enjoyed filming and acting with everyone and I also liked all the planning and the making of our creative response!

The Shadow Judging challenged us to look at books from a different perspective. It was fun working with the authors that came into school. It was a wonderful experience, and we learnt about how they write their books and what they have to think about when writing. It was really interesting to learn more about the books because authors know the back story of why they wrote the book but we don’t. It was good but difficult judging the books and reading different genres.

The Shadow Judging experience was one of the best experiences in my life. Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief ended up being my favourite book. The experience taught me to never judge a book by its cover.

Shadow judging was a wonderful way to read a wide range of

We enjoyed doing the Shadow Judging Creative piece because we all played a part in putting it together.

I really enjoyed the shadow judging as it showed me many ways to write and exposed me to many talented authors.

We loved judging books, its hard sometimes but also fun! We learned heaps about judging criteria and the messages that the authors were trying to teach us. When we are older, we would like to be judges like you for the Children Book Awards. We are very grateful to be shadow judges! Hope we do it next year again!

It was an amazing learning experience and helped me to analyse books and think about them in depth

I think the Shadow Judging was an amazing experience and I’m so happy I did it. I got to read good books and meet an author.