CBI Announces the Inaugural Book Shop Competition!

Its Festival time again as Children's Books Ireland announces its First Annual Book Shop Competition to celebrate the festival launch. This will be the first time that bookshops can get in on the festival action with the prospect of a well-earned reward for their efforts!

Promotional packs will be available from CBI from Mid-August giving you plenty of time to decorate your shop or shop front or co-ordinate a festival launch party! Shops will compete to design the best-looking window displays, interiors or novel festival launch using the merchandise in the packs - and whatever else takes your fancy. Also if you are holding any in-store events of your own - let us know and we'd be happy to add them to the online event guide.

There are two themes running through this year's image, on one hand there is a carnival-feel on the other a nautical one. Confused? It does indeed sound curious.  We will be releasing the festival image online very soon, a specially commissioned image by illustrator Mark Oliver- so you can get an early peek and get your creative juices flowing.  Goodies this year include the Book Fest Recommended Reading Guide, posters, balloons, pencils, bookmarks, and badges. 

As a reward for your noble efforts, the winners of the competition will receive two bottles of the finest champagne, brought over by hand directly from France.  So do you think you have the ingenuity, thrift, courage, creativity, and mental fortitude to triumph over competitors from the four corners of Ireland and kick-start a staff party of your own? 

To enter, each store must send in photos of the finished result, showing enough to capture the essence of the overall celebration.  Photos can be submitted either by e-mail attachment or through the post to CBI, all contact details are listed below.

All that remains is a spot of creative tension amongst the staff and some good-natured arguing to produce a display or launch party worthy of some festival bubbles!!