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Interviews with Carnegie & Greenaway winners

Sally Gardner talked to ReadingZone about her Carnegie award-winning novel, Maggot Moon, and we also caught up with Levi Pinfold to ask him about his picture book Black Dog.

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Sally Gardner and Levi Pinfold win Carnegie and Greenaway Medals

Dyslexic author Sally Gardner, is the winner of this year's CILIP Carnegie Medal for Maggot Moon (Hot Key Books). Australian author and illustrator Levi Pinfold won the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for his second picture...

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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.

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After Tomorrow

When you open a book by Gillian Cross you can feel confident that you will have a stimulating and enjoyable read. Here, she turns her considerable talents to a dark, but all too credible, not too distant, future...

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Through Dead Eyes

Alex joins his father on a business trip to Amsterdam and, during a tour of the town, he sees an ancient-looking mask which he feels compelled to buy. Later, in his hotel room, he puts the mask on and is sucked into a...

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