News feed for ReadingZone.comhttp://www.readingzone.com/ReadingZoneRoald Dahl Day takes place on Monday 13h September and schools can run a number of reading events and challenges based on Dahl's books. Puffin has also created a Matilda Assembly Pack, which you can download here.http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=916http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=916Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:56:34 GMT The shortlist for the Booktrust Teenage Prize has been announced. The shortlist takes in Ancient Greece, a disease-ridden London, Malaga, New York, the Arctic Circle and post- independence Zimbabwe. The winner will be announced on 1 November.http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=914http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=914Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:38:47 GMT The winners of the Booktrust Early Years award have been announced. They are: (Best Book for Babies) I Love My Mummy by Giles Andreae and Emma Dodd; (Best Picture Book) One Smart Fish by Chris Wormell; and (Best Emerging Illustrator) The Django by Levi Pinfold.http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=913http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=913Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:31:32 GMT National sponsored reading event Readathon has partnered with Scholastic to give schools that run a Readathon free books. Schools will be given a book voucher worth 20% of their donation, to spend at Scholastic Book Clubs.http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=912http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=912Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:24:10 GMT The Royal Shakespeare Company will be presenting a series of workshops at this year's Book It! children's festival, which forms part of the Cheltenham Festival. Authors including John Boyne, Judith Kerr and Robert Winston will also be appearing.http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=911http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=911Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:59:51 GMT National Poetry Day is providing free teaching resources for National Poetry Day. Written by poet Mandy Coe, the resources are available from Monday 13 September from the National Poetry Day website, below.http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=908http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=908Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:51:28 GMT The BBC reports that schools in Kent, which lost its School Library Service this summer, have been told to order books from their public library. Under the scheme, teachers will be able to borrow 100 books for eight weeks free of charge for students.http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=906http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=906Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:52:32 GMT Celebrate Roald Dahl Day with some tummy-tickling chocolate cake on 13th September - and find out about all the activities taking place throughout the month in the Whipple-Scrumptious calendar from Puffin, which you can download from the Dahl Day website (below(http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=904http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=904Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:28:58 GMT The 12th book in the CHERUB series, Shadow Wave, is published on 26th August. It's James Adams' last adventure but nobody knows exactly how it ends. What does the future hold for him and indeed the CHERUB organisation itself? http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=903http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=903Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:43:14 GMT Author Darren Shan has returned to his first hit series, The Saga of Darren Shan, to write The Saga of Larten Crepsley, a series about the outcast vampire. Birth of a Killer is the first book and is published on 30th Septemberhttp://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=892http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=892Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:54:51 GMT The language used by Enid Blyton in her Famous Five series has been updated to 'remove barriers' between the stories and today's readers, said publisher Hodder Children's Books.http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=890http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=890Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:09:24 GMT Research commissioned by the School Libraries Group of CILIP, 'School libraries in the UK: a worthwhile past, a difficult present – and a transformed future?', has provided a snapshot of school libraries in early 2010http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=889http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=889Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:55:53 GMT Stephenie Meyer's Twilight has become the 13th novel in the UK to sell more than 2m copies since the turn of the century. Other authors to have achieved this include people like Dan Brown, Mark Haddon, and of course JK Rowling.http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=887http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=887Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:05:43 GMT The Campaign for the Book has condemned the closure of at least 12 school libraries in the past month. Author Alan Gibbons, who heads up the campaign, has called for a moratorium on any further closures.http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=885http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=885Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:56:22 GMT Lucy Christopher's debut novel, Stolen (Chicken House), has won this year's Branford Boase Award. The award, which is backed by former Children's Laureate Jacqueline Wilson, is given for promising new writers and their editors. http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=884http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=884Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:56:30 GMT If you are looking for book-based activities to get children keen to read during the summer, then visit the Children'sZone or our YA section for book reviews, extracts to download and author interviews.http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=883http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=883Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:10:20 GMT Terry Deary's forthcoming title, Put Out the Light, is published by A&C Black in September to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the start of the Blitz. Here, Terry Deary talks to ReadingZone about the new book and the impact of the Blitz in England and Germany.http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=882http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=882Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:10:45 GMT Schools can register for free to see Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer in a live online event. The event on 20th July coincides with the launch of his new book, Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex.http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=880http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=880Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:10:34 GMT Look out for a new project by ReadingZone coming in the autumn term to support primary children's numeracy through literacy. ReadingZone will recommend engaging books to share with children.http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=881http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=881Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:01:17 GMT ReadingZone is working with diversity publisher Tamarind to support Black History Month, offering a set of picture books (ages five to seven years plus) at a 30% discount.http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=879http://www.readingzone.com/index.php?zone=pz&page=book_news_details&id=879Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:55:22 GMT