Tara Murray
A story of love and a lost engagement ring by a group of Caroline Chisholm Catholic College students has claimed one of the major prizes in the Write a Book In a Day competition.
Three groups of students from the college entered the competition, with the students having 12 hours to write and illustrate a book.
There were 1252 teams from more than 570 schools, with a group from Caroline Chisholm Catholic College winning best illustrated book in the upper school category for their book ‘Shiny Shenanigans’.
English teacher Taylor Martyn said the winning group was shocked to claim the prize. She said the work done to illustrate the book on Ipads was amazing.
“It is pretty amazing,” she said.
“We have done it in the past, we did it two years ago. This year we asked for volunteers and we were able to have three teams.
“They had 12 hours to write and illustrate the book. On the day they were also given five parameters.”
The winning group’s book is about Barry who wants to propose to his boyfriend at the Sydney Opera House.
A mischievous magpie ruins those plans and sends Barry on a hunt to retrieve an engagement ring.
As part of the competition schools also raised money for child cancer funding, with the college raising more than $1000.
