Great Graphics & Mighty Maths - THIS IS NOT A MATHS BOOK Wins the UK's Only Award for Creative Educational Writing - Seite 2

Now in its ninth year, the Educational Writers' Award was established in 2008 by the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS) and the Society of Authors (SoA) "to celebrate educational writing that inspires creativity and encourages students to read widely and build up their understanding of a subject beyond the requirements of exam specifications".

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EDITOR'S NOTES 

About the Winning Author & Illustrators 

Anna Weltman is a teacher in California, USA, with a passion for teaching children about maths, showing how it is part of the world around us, and present in music and art. When not sharing her love of maths, Anna enjoys art, craft, cooking and making music.

Edward Cheverton is a Bristol-based artist and Illustrator. His work features collage, comics, mixed media, 3D, drawing and more. He loves to read comics, listen to Jazz and watch Star Trek. Ed also runs Postcard Club which promotes handmade postcard swaps between artists around the world, and the small press, Jazz Dad Books.

Ivan Hissey studied design and illustration at Brighton University and the Royal College of Art, and has illustrated continuously in a wide range of media for over 30 years. His illustrations, caricatures and cartoons have appeared in books and magazines of every description.

About the Judges 

Jonathan Lomas spent 24 years teaching English and Drama at two leading state schools in London. For the past ten years he has been Head of English at La Retraite RC Girls' School in Clapham Park, and has recently been preparing schemes of work for the new curriculum in English. He is the author of audio revision guides for Smartpass on "Great Expectations", "Animal Farm" and "Othello" and has written four independently produced crime thrillers for Amazon. Brought up in Devon, he lives in South Wimbledon with his wife and young son.

Nicola Morgan is an award-winning author and international expert on adolescence, writing and speaking on topics surrounding reading, the brain, adolescent development and mental health, the effects of social media and the science of readaxation: reading for wellbeing. Her 2005 examination of the teenage brain, "Blame My Brain", was short-listed for the Aventis Prize for Science, and "The Teenage Guide to Stress" (2014) won the School Library Association award in both the readers' and the judges' categories. A former teacher and a dyslexia specialist, Nicola is also an award-winning novelist and plans to return to fiction eventually.