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Authors Jamila Gavin (pictured) and Jonathan Stroud, and publisher Verna Wilkins, will discuss 'Rewriting Traditions in Children's Literature' at a free event organised by publisher Random House on Tuesday 18th June,...
Training teachers had the opportunity to meet illustrator Alexis Deacon (Beegu, Croc and Bird) (right) and author Sam Gayton (The Snow Merchant, Lilliput) at a Reading for Pleasure event last week at Roehampton...
Specialist school library service and public librarians are ready to answer your book and reading-related questions. Whether you are searching for a book for a young football enthusiast or historical fiction set in the Elizabethan era, these experts will have the answer.
Hilary McKay excels at exploring familial relationships and settings and, as we have come to expect from her work, Binny for Short is a sensitive, funny and perceptive look at how children find their place within their...
Read more...Crown of Dreams is the third in a series of stories based loosely on the Arthurian myths, in which King Arthur's daughter, Rhianna Pendragon, sets out on a quest to find four objects - the Lance of Truth, Excalibur,...
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