Vote now for 2008

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There are two voting options available - individual voting and group voting.

Please take a look at the shortlisted titles for 2008 before casting your vote. Rather than just voting for your favourite book, you must place all four books in order of preference (your favourite book comes 1st, your next favourite 2nd and so on)

There are three categories to vote in:

• Younger Children
• Younger Readers
• Older Readers

You can vote in as many or as few categories as you like, but can only vote once per category - duplicated votes will not be counted.

You can always download a voting form here and send it back to the address on the form.

This is the ability to vote yourself rather than as part of a class or group. You must have Java or Javascript enabled to vote in one of these categories:

Younger Children

Younger Readers

Older Readers

This allows a number of people voting as a group or class to submit their votes together. This method of voting is slightly more complicated than individual voting, so please take a look at the instructions below before voting. You must have Java or Javascript enabled to vote in one of these categories:

Younger Children

Younger Readers

Older Readers

Group voting instructions

The easiest way to collect group votes is to collect the data in a table like the example below (one table for each category you are voting in) and then transfer this to the online voting form.

Example voting form for your group for one category

Names	BOOK 1	BOOK 2	BOOK 3	BOOK 4
Erin	1st	4th	2nd	3rd
Tom	2nd	1st	3rd	4th
James	3rd	1st	4th	2nd
Mel	4th	3rd	1st	2nd
Amy	3rd	1st	2nd	4th
Sam	3rd	1st	4th	2nd

In the example above there are 6 children voting in this class. Each child gives each book a position from 1st to 4th based on their own order of preference.

You will then need to total up the number of 1st place votes for each book, then 2nd place votes and so on. Use this information to complete the online voting form (see below). The votes for each position and the votes for each book should total the number of children who voted, in this case 6.

Example of online group voting form for one category

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
					TOTALS
The Tear Thief
A Dog Called Rod
Penguin
Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the Really Big Adventure

Don't worry, if your totals don't add up on the voting form, you will be prompted to correct them before submitting your votes!