Patrick Ness is up for a hat-trick for the Carnegie Medal with other shortlisted authors for the 2018 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals - announced today - including Geraldine McCaughrean, Angie Thomas, Levi Penfold and Teckentrup.
A primary school in Renfrewshire where all teachers attend a month children's book club and most have studied children's literature to masters level has won the UKLA's Literacy school of the year award.
The shortlist for the In Other Words award, which recognises outstanding books for children in translation, has been announced and includes eight stories with settings ranging from Iceland to Switzerland.
Cressida Cowell's book about wizards, warriors and magic has won the Blue Peter Book Award 2018 for the Best Story. The winners are announced today, World Book Day, and will be featured in a special Blue Peter programme tonight.
Children and teenagers aged under 19 are invited to finish a story started by 2017 Branford Boase Award winner, Beetle Boy author M. G. Leonard for the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition. The competition will run until 21 April.
The Children's Book Award 2018 shortlist has been announced and includes this year's COSTA Children's Book Award winner Katherine Rundell with The Explorer, and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Island at the End of Everything. Children can now vote...
The Young Muslim Writers Award is back and is inviting anyone aged 5-16 year to submit a story, poem, article, screenplay or play script for this year's award.
World Book Day is making five special editions available to young people this year, including John Green's An Abundance of Katherines and Gangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah.
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