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  • My First Story Orchestra: The Four Seasons in One Day: Press the buttons to hear 6 sounds

    My First Story Orchestra brings us Four Seasons in One Day. My toddler and I have REALLY enjoyed such a different and musical tak...

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  • Bouncing Bunnies

    Flagged as 'a perfect book for Easter', Bouncing Bunnies is a lovely engaging picture book, and perfect to share with young children at a...

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  • Friends Forever

    Friends Forever is a pitch-perfect story about friendship for very young children, bursting with vibrancy and energy.  A young monkey wan...

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  • National Trust: When Spring Comes

    National Trust: When Spring Comes is a perfect book for explaining to pre-schooler the seasonal changes that happen throughout the year....

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  • Slider Sound Books: Rummble!

    RUUMBLE! is our first Usborne Slider Sound Book in this house and the other books in this series are now firm favourites...

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  • Twelve Days of Kindness

    Brightly coloured illustrations show a family spreading festive cheer as they perform twelve simple acts of kindness in the days before Christmas. Each sp...

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  • The Bear-Shaped Hole

    Gerda and Orlo share a wonderful friendship. Kind and wise, Orlo always has time to listen to, and spend time with, young Gerda, but then things change. G...

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  • University of Cambridge: Teeny Tiny Science: I See a Cloud: A book about the water cycle

    Teeny Tiny Science: I See a Cloud is the answer to every child's question of 'Why does it rain?'. Cleverly written using simple sentences...

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  • I'm Going to Make a Friend

    A child moves to a new house and is worried about making new friends. How long will it take? What games will they want to play? Will they have their own i...

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  • The Bear and the Hare and the Fair

    If you are looking for a fun tongue twister, look no further that The Bear and the Hare and the Fair. This rhyming story is full of <stro...

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  • The Rabbit, the Cloud and the Rainy Day

    The Rabbit, The Cloud and the Rainy Day is brought to us by the creator of the VERY well-known <a href="/books/the-rabbit-the-dark-and-th...

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  • Basil Dreams Big: perfect for encouraging resilience & self-belief!

    Basil the bat doesn't believe that he can fly. Encouraged by his friend, Moth, and the rest of the fruit bats, he tries and tries, but with no luck. Howev...

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  • What's That Noise?

    What's That Noise? is a great book with an engaging story and fantastic illustrations. The story starts with Bob, his box, some toys and...

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  • Once I Was a Tree

    Once I Was a Tree is a beautifully illustrated picture book with details that add to the power of the narrative and message. The front co...

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  • I Am Strong Just Being Me

    I Am Strong Just Being Me was just the book that I was looking for to read to Y3 and Y4 in our weekly story assembly. I was looking for a...

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  • Ajay and the Red-winged Prince

    Ajay and the Red-Wing Prince is the latest book in the brilliant Woodland Explorers Club series by the hugely talented E...

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  • I Am Strong Just Being Me

    This is a very big concept for such a slim book. It starts with a little girl musing about what the word 'strong' means. She thinks hard but can't come up...

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  • It's OK to Say No: A Let's Talk picture book to help young children understand giving and getting consent

    Part of the Let’s Talk… series, It's OK to Say No is a well considered, reassuring book which introduces children to the idea of consent and perso...

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  • It's OK to Say No: A Let's Talk picture book to help young children understand giving and getting consent

    It's OK to Say No is the sort of book that works best on a one to one basis, shared between a child/young person and a trusted adult, rat...

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  • SuperQuesters Mission: River Crest Rescue

    The Super Questers are back! I absolutely love these books and the children in my infants school firmly agree. In true scientific fashion...

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  • Finders of Silverthorn Forest: The Lost Treasures

    Max is determined to find the old time capsule, buried years ago by his grandmother, before she moves out of Pickwick Cottage and goes to live with Max an...

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  • Ember Spark and the Unicorn's Secret: Volume 3

    Ember Spark and her best friend, Arno Whisper, are apprentice vets to magical beasts. When Ember's pet nibblesqueak, Forty Winks, begins to behave oddly,...

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  • Clem Fatale Has Been Betrayed

    This fast-paced mystery set in post-WWII London, which centres around the theft of a diamond called The Fool's Canary by Jimmy Fatale's S...

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  • University of Cambridge: Secrets of Bees: A Kid's Guide to Hives, Pollination and Electro-Sense (Think Big)

    University of Cambridge: Secrets of Bees (Think Big) is a fantastic book. It is on trend both visually and topically at a time when polli...

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  • Felix and the Future Agency: An explosive new children's adventure series: Volume 1

    Felix has a special ability - but one which often gets him into trouble and makes others think he's weird. Being able to foresee the future, he tries to w...

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  • Dragonborn

    Alex, still mourning the death of her father, finds out that she is in fact a dragon in human form. As if this was not shocking enough, she has to leave h...

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  • Shrapnel Boys

    Two days before Britain's Declaration of War, Ronnie, his younger brother, Micky, and best friend, Lugs, watch children from their school set off as they...

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  • Valley of the Vikings

    Valley of the Vikings is the tenth book in the Emily Windsnap series but there is no need to read the earlier books to enjoy it. ...

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  • Land of the Last Wildcat

    Puffin's mum is a research scientist and is often away from home. She and Puffin have a strained relationship; Puffin feels that her mum does not have eno...

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  • Land of the Last Wildcat

    Imagine an animal that is around twice the size of a domestic cat with shimmering orange fur, silvery whiskers and iridescent green eyes. Imagine that sam...

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  • The Doughnut Club

    Coming of age stories have always explored feelings of not fitting in - but how might those feelings be complicated if you didn't really know who one of y...

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  • Captain of Fates (Twin Crowns, Book 4)

    Captain of Fates is a spin-off adventure from the wonderful Twin Crowns series and i...

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  • Serial Chillers: The Witch in the Woods (Serial Chillers, Book 1)

    A seriously sinister, spooky, spine-chilling and spectacular comedy-horror, delivered expertly by Jennifer Killick who is an absolute master at MG...

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  • What Happens Online: The new teen comedy from an award-winning author

    The third and equally brilliant new book from Nathanael Lessore - What Happens Online - follows our main character Fred through his journ...

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  • Close Protection: YA debut from BookTok Content Creator of the Year

    Eden Victoria's debut novel Close Protection promises suspense, romance, and a hint of danger, but unfortunately, it doesn't fully delive...

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  • Westfallen: What if you had to stop Germany winning WWII? A thrilling race-against-time adventure

    Although Henry, Frances and Lukas are no longer best friends, they meet up for the funeral of their pet gerbil. Whilst digging the grave, they make an ama...

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  • This Song Is About Us

    This Song is About Us is set over three music festivals and follows the highs and lows of young love faced with the complexities of fame....

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  • The Binding Spell: an atmospheric contemporary fantasy

    The Binding Spell is a dark, enchanting YA novel that weaves witchcraft, family secrets, and ancient superstition into a compelling story...

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  • The Dark That Hides Us (Volume 2)

    The Dark that Hides Us is a fantastic continuation of an unforgettable journey that the four friends have been through and it will keep you totall...

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  • The Binding Spell: an atmospheric contemporary fantasy

    When Morgan and her family are forced to move back to her mother's hometown, she has no idea of the history and trouble that await. Villa...

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  • Glasgow Boys: 'Tenderness itself, a song to love and friendship.' Andrew O'Hagan

    Set in modern day Glasgow, this powerful novel follows the lives of Finlay (18) and Banjo (17) as they both try to negotiate their ways through li...

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  • Where Shadows Meet

    Some 20 years on from the Twilight phenomenon, a resurgence of the vampire narrative seems timely. The Sunday Times bestseller, Where Shadows Meet...

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  • Once I Was a Tree: The journey from seed to book with Eoin McLaughlin & Guilherme Karsten

    Once I Was a Tree: The journey from seed to book with Eoin McLaughlin & Guilherme Karsten

    Who knew the journey from seed to book could be so funny! Eoin McLaughlin  introduces Once I Was a Tree, illustrated...

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  • Saskia Gwinn & Daniela Sosa introduce STEM concepts in Teeny Tiny Science series

    Saskia Gwinn & Daniela Sosa introduce STEM concepts in Teeny Tiny Science series

    The first Teeny Tiny Science book, I See a Cloud, will help children learn about the water cycle. Saskia Gwinn and D...

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  • Charlie Higson and Nadia Shireen: Making children laugh with What's That Noise?

    Charlie Higson and Nadia Shireen: Making children laugh with What's That Noise?

    Charlie Higson and Nadia Shireen introduce their hilarious picture book, What's That Noise, and explore why we need...

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  • Recognising sounds and spellings with Em Lynas's fun picture books

    Recognising sounds and spellings with Em Lynas's fun picture books

    Em Lynas and Matt Hunt's rhyming picture books, including The Bear and the Hare and the Fair, can help develop child...

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  • Supporting children's wellbeing with Molly Potter's Let's Talk series

    Supporting children's wellbeing with Molly Potter's Let's Talk series

    It's OK to Say No is the latest in the Let's Talk series of books by Molly Potter addressing young children's emotio...

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  • Exploring loss in The Bear-Shaped Hole, with John Dougherty and Thomas Docherty

    Exploring loss in The Bear-Shaped Hole, with John Dougherty and Thomas Docherty

    John Dougherty and Thomas Docherty explore loss in their picture books, The Hare-Shaped Hole and The Bear-Shaped Hol...

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  • Darren Chetty and Sandhya Prabhat: I'm Going to Make a Friend

    Darren Chetty and Sandhya Prabhat: I'm Going to Make a Friend

    Darren Chetty and Sandhya Prabhat explore friendship in their new picture book, I'm Going to Make a Friend....

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  • Lu Fraser explores self-belief in Basil Dreams Big

    Lu Fraser explores self-belief in Basil Dreams Big

    In Basil Dreams Big, Basil, a young bat, must find the courage to fly! Author Lu Fraser and illustrator Sarah Warbur...

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  • Laura Dockrill

    Laura Dockrill

    Laura Dockrill, a performance poet and novelist, introduces her new picture book, I Am Strong Just Being Me, which e...

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  • Thomas Docherty

    Thomas Docherty

    Thomas Docherty tells ReadingZone how his own daughters helped inspire his latest picture book, Moon Girl.<...

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  • Mariajo Ilustrajo

    Mariajo Ilustrajo

    Award-winning author and illustrator Mariajo Ilustrajo introduces her new picture book, Oh, Carrots!, about making n...

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  • Polly Faber

    Polly Faber

    Polly Faber's new picture book, Recycling Day: What Happens to the Things We Throw Away, f...

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  • Nicola O'Byrne explores big emotions in The Rabbit, the Cloud and the Rainy Day

    Nicola O'Byrne explores big emotions in The Rabbit, the Cloud and the Rainy Day

    Nicola O'Byrne's new picture book, The Rabbit, the Cloud and the Rainy Day, explores how children learn to manage bi...

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  • Debi Gliori

    Debi Gliori

    Come What May, Debi Gliori's reassuring and warm picture book about familial love, returns the reader to the world o...

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  • Huw Lewis Jones and Corey Egbert's classic cumulative tale

    Huw Lewis Jones and Corey Egbert's classic cumulative tale

    Huw Lewis Jones and Corey Egbert introduce Mr Norton's New Hat, their classic cumulative tale. <stro...

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  • Greg Stobbs celebrates difference, and imagination, in Cloud Boy

    Greg Stobbs celebrates difference, and imagination, in Cloud Boy

    ReadingZone caught up with author, illustrator and street artist Greg Stobbs to find out about his new picture book,...

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  • Inspire storytelling with Joseph Coelho's Tiny Tales

    Inspire storytelling with Joseph Coelho's Tiny Tales

    Joseph Coelho's 'Tiny Tales' tell entire stories in just ten words. His latest collection is Tiny Tales of Love, and...

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  • Nizrana Farook explores the Eid festival in Eid for Nylah

    Nizrana Farook explores the Eid festival in Eid for Nylah

    Eid for Nylah explores the festival of Eid through the eyes of a young cat. It is Nizrana Farook</s...

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  • Em Lynas explores life cycles and emotions in Annabelle and Flower

    Em Lynas explores life cycles and emotions in Annabelle and Flower

    Em Lynas explores life cycles, the seasons and our emotions in her new picture book, Annabelle and...

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  • Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

    Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

    Chris Naylor-Ballesteros takes a warm and gentle look at friendship and its challenges in his picture book series, F...

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  • Jana Curll introduces My Path

    Jana Curll introduces My Path

    Jana Curll is an illustrator/author living on the edge of Canada's rainy west coast. Growing up near-sighted and comic book-...

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  • Chloe Savage's The Search for Carmella: Introducing Mindfulness to young children

    Chloe Savage's The Search for Carmella: Introducing Mindfulness to young children

    Chloe Savage introduces her new picture book, The Search f...

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  • Robert Tregoning: Exploring the Water Cycle in Flow with the Snow

    Robert Tregoning: Exploring the Water Cycle in Flow with the Snow

    We find out how Robert Tregoning and Oliver Averill's new picture book, Flow with the Snow...

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  • Wendy Meddour & Merle Goll discuss 'Patrick and Flippa'

    Wendy Meddour & Merle Goll discuss 'Patrick and Flippa'

    Wendy Meddour is a Doctor of English Literature and an award-winning children's writer. She has written sev...

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  • Emma Yarlett

    Emma Yarlett

    Discover what the book-loving monster Nibbles has been up to in his latest adventure, Nibbles the Very Hungry Book M...

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  • Barry Timms & Laura Borio: Griselda Snook's Spectacular Books

    Barry Timms & Laura Borio: Griselda Snook's Spectacular Books

    Barry Timms and Laura Borio introduce spooks, the joy of bookshops and reading for pleasure, in Griselda Snook's Spe...

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  • Ged Adamson

    Ged Adamson

    Author and illustrator Ged Adamson introduces Be Normal!, a story about accepting our friends for who they are. Ged w...

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  • Moira Butterfield - Look What I Found

    Moira Butterfield - Look What I Found

    Moira Butterfield is the creator of the 'Look What I Found...' non-fiction series for young children about...

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  • Sean Taylor

    Sean Taylor

    You're a Poet, Sean Taylor's new book about writing poetry, draws on his years of writing and teaching poetry in schools. </...

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  • Farrah Riaz & Navya Raju: The Twirly Wiggly Dance

    Farrah Riaz & Navya Raju: The Twirly Wiggly Dance

    Farrah Riaz is a London-based author from a Hindustani background. Creating characters in all sorts of narr...

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  • Professor Anjali Goswami

    Professor Anjali Goswami

    Professor Anjali Goswami's first children's book, Dig Dig Dinosaur, is aimed at sharing her passion about n...

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  • Alex Latimer

    Alex Latimer

    Award-winning writer and illustrator Alex Latimer introduces Godfrey is a Frog, a hilarious picture book about being content...

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  • Tom McLaughlin

    Tom McLaughlin

    Tom McLaughlin introduces The Boy Who Painted the World, his new picture book that encourages children to embrace creativity...

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  • Susannah Lloyd & Kate Hindley: Who Ate Steve?

    Susannah Lloyd & Kate Hindley: Who Ate Steve?

    Susannah Lloyd is the author of picture books including Who Ate Steve?, Here Be Giants and Here Be Dragons....

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  • Gloria Goes for Gold by Marina Firth & Annabel Tempest

    Gloria Goes for Gold by Marina Firth & Annabel Tempest

    Discover a young hippo who loves her medal-winning family, but who wants to win a prize al...

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  • Marcela Ferreira & Mark Chambers: Bear Vs Dragon

    Marcela Ferreira & Mark Chambers: Bear Vs Dragon

    Marcela Ferreira was born in Rio de Janeiro, and moved to London as a teenager. S...

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  • Leigh Hodgkinson

    Leigh Hodgkinson

    Leigh Hodgkinson joins ReadingZone to introduce her picture books, Martha Maps it Out and Martha Maps it Out in Time...

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  • Catherine Cawthorne & Sara Ogilvie

    Catherine Cawthorne & Sara Ogilvie

    Catherine Cawthorne's Big Bad Wolf Investigates explores the science behind our favourite fairy tales... Gr...

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  • Jarvis

    Jarvis

    Jarvis, author of The Boy With Flowers In His Hair, shares his new picture book, Thank You, with ReadingZone. Jarvis's earli...

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  • Katrina Charman & Guilherme Karstenn

    Katrina Charman & Guilherme Karstenn

    Katrina Charman and Guilherme Karsten tell ReadingZone how a traditional children's song i...

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  • James Carter

    James Carter

    James Carter introduces Once Upon a Big Idea, the latest in his poetry books exploring ideas and science ab...

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  • Sufiya Ahmed & Hazem Asif

    Sufiya Ahmed & Hazem Asif

    Sufiya Ahmed and illustrator Hazem Asif introduce their new picture book, The Best Eid Ever.      </p...

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  • Matty Long

    Matty Long

    Matty Long creates picture books including Who Rules the Rockpool?, the Super Happy Magic Forest series, Turbo Bunnies, and...

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  • Anna Wilson & Harry Woodgate

    Anna Wilson & Harry Woodgate

    Anna Wilson lives in Cornwall in the UK with her husband and dog, cat, ducks and a tortoise called Hercules...

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  • Ruth Doyle & Alexandra Finkeldey

    Ruth Doyle & Alexandra Finkeldey

    Ruth Doyle's new picture book, A Horse Called Now, explores children's worries with the help of a horse, No...

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  • Tracey Corderoy & Steven Lenton

    Tracey Corderoy & Steven Lenton

    Tracey Corderoy grew up in South Wales, on a council estate firmly sandwiched between the steel and chemica...

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  • John Kane

    John Kane

    When John Kane was younger, he liked to make up stories for his little sister. Jimmy and Bear, who appeared in them, are sti...

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  • Rachel Morrisroe

    Rachel Morrisroe

    Discover a hidden world of premonitions, magical creatures and deadly dangers in Felix and the Future Agency by Rach...

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  • Rachel Chivers Khoo

    Rachel Chivers Khoo

    Rachel Chivers Khoo introduces her magical new series, The Finders of Silverthorn Forest: The Lost Treasure,</strong...

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  • Liz Kessler introduces Valley of the Vikings, a new Emily Windsnap adventure

    Liz Kessler introduces Valley of the Vikings, a new Emily Windsnap adventure

    Valley of the Vikings features Viking gods, crystals and a 1,000-year-old curse. We find out more from author Liz Ke...

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  • Exploring identity in Kristina Rahim's The Doughnut Club

    Exploring identity in Kristina Rahim's The Doughnut Club

    Kristina Rahim's The Doughnut Club explores donor-conception and being true to oneself through 12-year-old Quinn's q...

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  • Explore Tamsin Mori's magical Gargoyles adventure series

    Explore Tamsin Mori's magical Gargoyles adventure series

    Tamsin Mori talks to ReadingZone about gargoyles, myths and her latest magical Gargoyles adventure, The Watcher</str...

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  • Lui Sit introduces her eco-adventure, Land of the Last Wildcat

    Lui Sit introduces her eco-adventure, Land of the Last Wildcat

    Lui Sit's debut children's book, Land of the Last Wildcat, takes us on a journey to a lush island and myths about a...

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  • Sinéad O'Hart

    Sinéad O'Hart

    In the Lola and Larch series by Sinéad O'Hart, we follow the adventures of Lola and her fairy friend, Larch...

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  • Alastair Chisholm

    Alastair Chisholm

    Alastair Chisholm introduces his new science fiction novel, I Am Raven, the follow-up to his acclai...

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  • James Catchpole and Jen Campbell introduce Owning It!, stories about disabled childhoods

    James Catchpole and Jen Campbell introduce Owning It!, stories about disabled childhoods

    Owning It is a new anthology by disabled authors, who share their stories and experiences of growing up disabled. <st...

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  • Dive into Eve Wersocki-Morris's Clem Fatale mystery series

    Dive into Eve Wersocki-Morris's Clem Fatale mystery series

    Eve Wersocki Morris grew up in North London and has been making up stories her whole life. Diagnosed with d...

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  • Ben Lerwill introduces Wonder World: Earth

    Ben Lerwill introduces Wonder World: Earth

    Discover the world beneath our feat in Ben Lerwill's new book, Earth, the first in the Wonder World series....

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  • Ben Hoare investigates The Secrets of Bees

    Ben Hoare investigates The Secrets of Bees

    Bestselling wildlife writer and self-described nature nerd introduces his new non-fiction book for children, Secrets of Bees...

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  • Katya Balen

    Katya Balen

    Award-winning author Katya Balen and illustrator Gill Smith talk to ReadingZone about their new series for...

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  • Padraig Kenny

    Padraig Kenny

    Padraig Kenny, our Author of the Month, tells ReadingZone what inspired his new dystopian adventure, After....

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  • Ann Brashares and Ben Brashares ask, 'What if the Nazis had won the war?'

    Ann Brashares and Ben Brashares ask, 'What if the Nazis had won the war?'

    Ann Brashares is a writer and mother of four living in New York City. She is the author of the #1 New York...

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  • Nathanael Lessore takes a fresh, hilarious look at Superheroes

    Nathanael Lessore takes a fresh, hilarious look at Superheroes

    Nathanael Lessore grew up in a North Peckham estate as one of eight children to French and Madagascan paren...

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  • Catherine Wilkins

    Catherine Wilkins

    Meet Catherine Wilkins and find out about her series Café Chaos, a hilarious behind-the-scenes look...

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  • AF Harrold's Pocket Book of Pocket Poems

    AF Harrold's Pocket Book of Pocket Poems

    AF Harrold is an English poet and children's author. He spends his time showing off on stage, writing poems and books, and s...

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  • Lydia Monks explores the lives of Henry VIII's wives in Six Queens

    Lydia Monks explores the lives of Henry VIII's wives in Six Queens

    Lydia Monks tells ReadingZone about her new non-fiction book for younger readers, Six Queens, about the lives of Hen...

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  • Jules Howard and Gavin Scott introduce MEGA: The Most Enormous Animals Ever

    Jules Howard and Gavin Scott introduce MEGA: The Most Enormous Animals Ever

    Jules Howard is a zoology correspondent, author, science-writer and broadcaster who appears regularly on TV...

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  • Kieran Larwood: Dungeon Runners

    Kieran Larwood: Dungeon Runners

    Kieran Larwood lives on the Isle of Wight where he enjoys exploring rockpools, climbing trees and writing....

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  • Gary Panton introduces The Notwitches

    Gary Panton introduces The Notwitches

    Gary Panton describes himself as a 'writer, scribbler and constant doodler' and The Notwitches is his first...

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  • Anu Adebogun introduces her guide to life, It's a Brave Young World

    Anu Adebogun introduces her guide to life, It's a Brave Young World

    Anu Adebogun, British-Nigerian author, scholar and award-winning youth practitioner, introduces her new guide for young peop...

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  • Exploring world-building with Jacob North, author of Ice Apprentices

    Exploring world-building with Jacob North, author of Ice Apprentices

    Discover a wintery world of ice, danger and magic in Ice Apprentices, Jacob North's debut novel. Jac...

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  • MG Leonard introduces her Time Keys adventures

    MG Leonard introduces her Time Keys adventures

    MG Leonard's new Time Keys series takes us into the world of time-travel and ancient mysteries. She is also the author of be...

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  • Holly Webb

    Holly Webb

    Author Holly Webb has just written the 60th book in her best-selling Animal Stories series, The Bold Kitten...

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  • Eric Huang's Guardians of the New Moon series

    Eric Huang's Guardians of the New Moon series

    Eric Huang has always been fascinated by legends and lore and East Asian myths have helped inspire his debu...

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  • Berlie Doherty and Tamsin Rosewell introduce The Seamaiden's Odyssey

    Berlie Doherty and Tamsin Rosewell introduce The Seamaiden's Odyssey

    Berlie Doherty is the author of the best-selling novel, Street Child, and over 60 more books for children,...

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  • Fleur Hitchcock's Murder Mysteries

    Fleur Hitchcock's Murder Mysteries

    Fleur Hitchcock's latest murder mystery novel, Murder at Wintertide, is now available and is her most sinister yet.... Fleur...

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  • Jack Jackman

    Jack Jackman

    Discover how a journey to Antarctica inspired Jack Jackman's debut novel, Maisie Vs Antarctica, an adventure-packed...

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  • Mike Rampton and Guilherme Karsten: Why we should ask questions!

    Mike Rampton and Guilherme Karsten: Why we should ask questions!

    Discover the importance of asking questions in the fact-tastique Why There is No Such Thing as a Silly Question!</st...

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  • The comic inspirations behind Swapna Reddy's new Reggie Rabbit series

    The comic inspirations behind Swapna Reddy's new Reggie Rabbit series

    Humour, comic-style illustrations and daring-do will have children reaching for the new Reggie Rabbit books by Swapn...

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  • Liz Flanagan introduces her Wildsmith series

    Liz Flanagan introduces her Wildsmith series

    Liz Flanagan introduce her latest and final book in the Wildsmith series, Magical Mountain Rescue</...

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  • Martin Howard

    Martin Howard

    Martin Howard writes absurdly funny books for children and he's here to tell us about his latest book, Mallory Vayle and the...

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  • Olivia Tuffin

    Olivia Tuffin

    Olivia Tuffin, whose passion for horses shines through her writing, joins ReadingZone to tell us about The Horse Who Danced,...

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  • Alex Foulkes

    Alex Foulkes

    Discover a world of mischievous imps in Alex Foulkes's new children's book, Ministry of Mischief! Al...

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  • BB Alston

    BB Alston

    BB Alston started writing in middle school, entertaining his classmates with horror stories starring the whole class where n...

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  • Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author and whose novels for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf <br /...

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  • Nazima Pathan

    Nazima Pathan

    Discover Dream Hunters, the debut fantasy novel by Nazima Pathan, set in a richly imagined alterna...

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  • Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant tells ReadingZone about her new adventure, The Secret of Golden Island.  Her earlier children's adventure st...

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  • Helen Peters

    Helen Peters

    Helen Peters revisits her childhood, growing up on an old-fashioned farm in Sussex, surrounded by family, animals and mud, i...

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  • Nicola Colton

    Nicola Colton

    Nicola Colton introduces her new series, Bertha and Blink, about a bear inventor and an excitable Robo-bird! </stron...

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  • Marie Basting

    Marie Basting

    Discover an alternate world peopled by Roman gods in Marie Basting's Auntie Medusa and Me, the follow-up to her hilarious My...

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  • MT Khan

    MT Khan

    MT Khan is back to tell us about her new novel, Amir and the Jinn Princess, which returns us to the world o...

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  • Gita Ralleigh

    Gita Ralleigh

    Gita Ralleigh introduces The Voyage of Sam Singh, the adventurous follow-up to her acclaimed debut, The Destiny of M...

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  • Emma Carroll

    Emma Carroll

    Emma Carroll's new historical fiction novel, The Houdini Inheritance, explores the intrigue and mystery of...

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  • Alan MacDonald

    Alan MacDonald

    Alan MacDonald introduces his brilliant new series for younger readers about best friends Huxley, a koala b...

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  • Adeola Sokunbi

    Adeola Sokunbi

    Destiny Ink: Sleepover Surprise is Adeola Sokunbi's first book for children. Adeola is both a writer and illustrator, and an...

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  • Bryony Pearce

    Bryony Pearce

    Discover ancient gods, mysterious thefts, and new friends in Hannah Messenger and the Gods of Hockwold, Bryony Pearc...

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  • Patrick Gallagher

    Patrick Gallagher

    Transcendent, the action-packed debut by Patrick Gallagher, explores the climate crisis against a backdrop of Uganda...

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  • Jennifer Bell

    Jennifer Bell

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    KL Walther's Ferris Bueller-inspired novel, While We're Young

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  • Ann Brashares and Ben Brashares ask, 'What if the Nazis had won the war?'

    Ann Brashares and Ben Brashares ask, 'What if the Nazis had won the war?'

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    Debi Gliori

    Come What May, Debi Gliori's reassuring and warm picture book about familial love, returns the reader to the world o...

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    Nathanael Lessore takes a fresh, hilarious look at Superheroes

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    Huw Lewis Jones and Corey Egbert's classic cumulative tale

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    Trang Thanh Tran explores identity and transformation in They Bloom at Night

    Trang Thanh Tran is the author of She Is a Haunting, a William C. M...

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    Channelle Desamours introduces her new YA mystery, Needy Little Things

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  • Catherine Wilkins

    Catherine Wilkins

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    AF Harrold's Pocket Book of Pocket Poems

    AF Harrold is an English poet and children's author. He spends his time showing off on stage, writing poems and books, and s...

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  • Lydia Monks explores the lives of Henry VIII's wives in Six Queens

    Lydia Monks explores the lives of Henry VIII's wives in Six Queens

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  • Greg Stobbs celebrates difference, and imagination, in Cloud Boy

    Greg Stobbs celebrates difference, and imagination, in Cloud Boy

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  • Jules Howard and Gavin Scott introduce MEGA: The Most Enormous Animals Ever

    Jules Howard and Gavin Scott introduce MEGA: The Most Enormous Animals Ever

    Jules Howard is a zoology correspondent, author, science-writer and broadcaster who appears regularly on TV...

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  • Inspire storytelling with Joseph Coelho's Tiny Tales

    Inspire storytelling with Joseph Coelho's Tiny Tales

    Joseph Coelho's 'Tiny Tales' tell entire stories in just ten words. His latest collection is Tiny Tales of Love, and...

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  • Nizrana Farook explores the Eid festival in Eid for Nylah

    Nizrana Farook explores the Eid festival in Eid for Nylah

    Eid for Nylah explores the festival of Eid through the eyes of a young cat. It is Nizrana Farook</s...

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  • Em Lynas explores life cycles and emotions in Annabelle and Flower

    Em Lynas explores life cycles and emotions in Annabelle and Flower

    Em Lynas explores life cycles, the seasons and our emotions in her new picture book, Annabelle and...

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    Kieran Larwood: Dungeon Runners

    Kieran Larwood lives on the Isle of Wight where he enjoys exploring rockpools, climbing trees and writing....

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  • Gary Panton introduces The Notwitches

    Gary Panton introduces The Notwitches

    Gary Panton describes himself as a 'writer, scribbler and constant doodler' and The Notwitches is his first...

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  • Anu Adebogun introduces her guide to life, It's a Brave Young World

    Anu Adebogun introduces her guide to life, It's a Brave Young World

    Anu Adebogun, British-Nigerian author, scholar and award-winning youth practitioner, introduces her new guide for young peop...

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  • Stewart Foster

    Stewart Foster

    Stewart Foster explores friendships and young men's mental health in Pieces of Us, his first YA novel, which draws o...

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  • Neal Shusterman introduces his new dystopian thriller, All Better Now

    Neal Shusterman introduces his new dystopian thriller, All Better Now

    Award-winning author Neal Shusterman joins ReadingZone to discuss his latest YA contemporary thriller, All Better No...

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  • Exploring world-building with Jacob North, author of Ice Apprentices

    Exploring world-building with Jacob North, author of Ice Apprentices

    Discover a wintery world of ice, danger and magic in Ice Apprentices, Jacob North's debut novel. Jac...

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  • MG Leonard introduces her Time Keys adventures

    MG Leonard introduces her Time Keys adventures

    MG Leonard's new Time Keys series takes us into the world of time-travel and ancient mysteries. She is also the author of be...

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  • Exploring grief, family and community in Let the Light In

    Exploring grief, family and community in Let the Light In

    Mother and son team Jenny Downham and Louis Hill introduce their first collaborative novel, Let the Light In.</stron...

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    Holly Webb

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    Eric Huang's Guardians of the New Moon series

    Eric Huang has always been fascinated by legends and lore and East Asian myths have helped inspire his debu...

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  • Alice Nuttall introduces her gripping eco-horror novel, The Zombie Project

    Alice Nuttall introduces her gripping eco-horror novel, The Zombie Project

    When Alice Nuttall was little, she was given a giant stack of yellowing scrap paper from the factory where her grandfather w...

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  • Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

    Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

    Chris Naylor-Ballesteros takes a warm and gentle look at friendship and its challenges in his picture book series, F...

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  • Blessing Musariri

    Blessing Musariri

    Award-winning author Blessing Musariri's new YA novel, When It's Your Turn for Midnight, draws on the Zimba...

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  • Jana Curll introduces My Path

    Jana Curll introduces My Path

    Jana Curll is an illustrator/author living on the edge of Canada's rainy west coast. Growing up near-sighted and comic book-...

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  • Berlie Doherty and Tamsin Rosewell introduce The Seamaiden's Odyssey

    Berlie Doherty and Tamsin Rosewell introduce The Seamaiden's Odyssey

    Berlie Doherty is the author of the best-selling novel, Street Child, and over 60 more books for children,...

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  • Fleur Hitchcock's Murder Mysteries

    Fleur Hitchcock's Murder Mysteries

    Fleur Hitchcock's latest murder mystery novel, Murder at Wintertide, is now available and is her most sinister yet.... Fleur...

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  • Jack Jackman

    Jack Jackman

    Discover how a journey to Antarctica inspired Jack Jackman's debut novel, Maisie Vs Antarctica, an adventure-packed...

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  • Scarlett Dunmore

    Scarlett Dunmore

    How to Survive a Horror Movie, Scarlett Dunmore's debut novel for YA readers, was inspired by her own love of scary films an...

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  • Chloe Savage's The Search for Carmella: Introducing Mindfulness to young children

    Chloe Savage's The Search for Carmella: Introducing Mindfulness to young children

    Chloe Savage introduces her new picture book, The Search f...

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  • Mike Rampton and Guilherme Karsten: Why we should ask questions!

    Mike Rampton and Guilherme Karsten: Why we should ask questions!

    Discover the importance of asking questions in the fact-tastique Why There is No Such Thing as a Silly Question!</st...

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  • The comic inspirations behind Swapna Reddy's new Reggie Rabbit series

    The comic inspirations behind Swapna Reddy's new Reggie Rabbit series

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  • Liz Flanagan introduces her Wildsmith series

    Liz Flanagan introduces her Wildsmith series

    Liz Flanagan introduce her latest and final book in the Wildsmith series, Magical Mountain Rescue</...

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  • Robert Tregoning: Exploring the Water Cycle in Flow with the Snow

    Robert Tregoning: Exploring the Water Cycle in Flow with the Snow

    We find out how Robert Tregoning and Oliver Averill's new picture book, Flow with the Snow...

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  • Chris Vick

    Chris Vick

    Chris Vick tells us how his latest novel, Shadow Creatures, was inspired by his family's experiences in Nor...

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  • Martin Howard

    Martin Howard

    Martin Howard writes absurdly funny books for children and he's here to tell us about his latest book, Mallory Vayle and the...

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  • Brian Dungan

    Brian Dungan

    Irish author and cameraman Brían Dungan introduces his debut novel Wintour's Game, a time-twisting, action-packed adventure...

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  • Wendy Meddour & Merle Goll discuss 'Patrick and Flippa'

    Wendy Meddour & Merle Goll discuss 'Patrick and Flippa'

    Wendy Meddour is a Doctor of English Literature and an award-winning children's writer. She has written sev...

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  • Logan-Ashley Kisner

    Logan-Ashley Kisner

    Old Wounds takes us to a sleepy backwater town to explore identity and questions around transness. It is Lo...

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    Olivia Tuffin

    Olivia Tuffin, whose passion for horses shines through her writing, joins ReadingZone to tell us about The Horse Who Danced,...

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  • Alex Foulkes

    Alex Foulkes

    Discover a world of mischievous imps in Alex Foulkes's new children's book, Ministry of Mischief! Al...

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  • Emma Yarlett

    Emma Yarlett

    Discover what the book-loving monster Nibbles has been up to in his latest adventure, Nibbles the Very Hungry Book M...

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  • BB Alston

    BB Alston

    BB Alston started writing in middle school, entertaining his classmates with horror stories starring the whole class where n...

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  • Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author and whose novels for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf <br /...

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  • Barry Timms & Laura Borio: Griselda Snook's Spectacular Books

    Barry Timms & Laura Borio: Griselda Snook's Spectacular Books

    Barry Timms and Laura Borio introduce spooks, the joy of bookshops and reading for pleasure, in Griselda Snook's Spe...

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  • Ged Adamson

    Ged Adamson

    Author and illustrator Ged Adamson introduces Be Normal!, a story about accepting our friends for who they are. Ged w...

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  • Nazima Pathan

    Nazima Pathan

    Discover Dream Hunters, the debut fantasy novel by Nazima Pathan, set in a richly imagined alterna...

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  • Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant tells ReadingZone about her new adventure, The Secret of Golden Island.  Her earlier children's adventure st...

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  • Helen Peters

    Helen Peters

    Helen Peters revisits her childhood, growing up on an old-fashioned farm in Sussex, surrounded by family, animals and mud, i...

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  • Nicola Colton

    Nicola Colton

    Nicola Colton introduces her new series, Bertha and Blink, about a bear inventor and an excitable Robo-bird! </stron...

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  • Marie Basting

    Marie Basting

    Discover an alternate world peopled by Roman gods in Marie Basting's Auntie Medusa and Me, the follow-up to her hilarious My...

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  • MT Khan

    MT Khan

    MT Khan is back to tell us about her new novel, Amir and the Jinn Princess, which returns us to the world o...

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  • Moira Butterfield - Look What I Found

    Moira Butterfield - Look What I Found

    Moira Butterfield is the creator of the 'Look What I Found...' non-fiction series for young children about...

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  • Gita Ralleigh

    Gita Ralleigh

    Gita Ralleigh introduces The Voyage of Sam Singh, the adventurous follow-up to her acclaimed debut, The Destiny of M...

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  • Emma Carroll

    Emma Carroll

    Emma Carroll's new historical fiction novel, The Houdini Inheritance, explores the intrigue and mystery of...

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  • Jenny Valentine

    Jenny Valentine

    Jenny Valentine introduces her new YA book, Us in the Before and After, a powerful and absorbing novel about friendship, fir...

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  • Laura Jane Williams

    Laura Jane Williams

    Queen of the cute-meet Laura Jane Williams introduces her debut novel for teenagers, Taylor Blake i...

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  • Helen Comerford

    Helen Comerford

    Helen Comerford is a Black mixed-race British debut author and is passionate about Black British and mixed...

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  • Efua Traoré

    Efua Traoré

    Efua Traoré's latest novel Sister Spirit draws on her years growing up in Nigeria, as well as the mythology and supe...

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  • Shade Lapite

    Shade Lapite

    Shade Lapite is British-Nigerian and has drawn on her heritage to create the world of Goddess Crown. She spent a significant...

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  • Chloë Heuch

    Chloë Heuch

    Chloë Heuch introduces her new novel, A History of my Weird, which challenges our perceptions of autism. Chloë was bo...

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  • Sean Taylor

    Sean Taylor

    You're a Poet, Sean Taylor's new book about writing poetry, draws on his years of writing and teaching poetry in schools. </...

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  • Farrah Riaz & Navya Raju: The Twirly Wiggly Dance

    Farrah Riaz & Navya Raju: The Twirly Wiggly Dance

    Farrah Riaz is a London-based author from a Hindustani background. Creating characters in all sorts of narr...

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  • Professor Anjali Goswami

    Professor Anjali Goswami

    Professor Anjali Goswami's first children's book, Dig Dig Dinosaur, is aimed at sharing her passion about n...

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  • Alan MacDonald

    Alan MacDonald

    Alan MacDonald introduces his brilliant new series for younger readers about best friends Huxley, a koala b...

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  • Adeola Sokunbi

    Adeola Sokunbi

    Destiny Ink: Sleepover Surprise is Adeola Sokunbi's first book for children. Adeola is both a writer and illustrator, and an...

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  • Bryony Pearce

    Bryony Pearce

    Discover ancient gods, mysterious thefts, and new friends in Hannah Messenger and the Gods of Hockwold, Bryony Pearc...

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  • Alex Latimer

    Alex Latimer

    Award-winning writer and illustrator Alex Latimer introduces Godfrey is a Frog, a hilarious picture book about being content...

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  • Tom McLaughlin

    Tom McLaughlin

    Tom McLaughlin introduces The Boy Who Painted the World, his new picture book that encourages children to embrace creativity...

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  • Patrick Gallagher

    Patrick Gallagher

    Transcendent, the action-packed debut by Patrick Gallagher, explores the climate crisis against a backdrop of Uganda...

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  • Jennifer Bell

    Jennifer Bell

    Find out what inspired Jennifer Bell's wondrous new series, Magicalia: Race of Wonders!  Londoner Jennifer Bell worke...

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  • Susannah Lloyd & Kate Hindley: Who Ate Steve?

    Susannah Lloyd & Kate Hindley: Who Ate Steve?

    Susannah Lloyd is the author of picture books including Who Ate Steve?, Here Be Giants and Here Be Dragons....

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  • Gloria Goes for Gold by Marina Firth & Annabel Tempest

    Gloria Goes for Gold by Marina Firth & Annabel Tempest

    Discover a young hippo who loves her medal-winning family, but who wants to win a prize al...

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  • Chibundu Onuzo

    Chibundu Onuzo

    Chibundu Onuzo, author of Welcome to Lagos, introduces her first children's book, Mayowa and the Sea of Words</stron...

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  • Fiona Longmuir

    Fiona Longmuir

    Freya's Gold by Fiona Longmuir is a mystery story about a secret tunnel, hidden treasure and a community fighting to...

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  • Marcela Ferreira & Mark Chambers: Bear Vs Dragon

    Marcela Ferreira & Mark Chambers: Bear Vs Dragon

    Marcela Ferreira was born in Rio de Janeiro, and moved to London as a teenager. S...

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  • Alex Falase-Koya

    Alex Falase-Koya

    Author of the Marv superhero books, Alex Falase-Koya has been writing since he was a teenager and in 2019 w...

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  • Manon Steffan Ros

    Manon Steffan Ros

    Carnegie-winning author Manon Steffan Ros tells ReadingZone about her new novel, Me and Aaron Ramsey. Manon was born...

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  • Greg Jenner

    Greg Jenner

    Greg Jenner, historian, author and podcast host, tells ReadingZone about his new Totally Chaotic History series, sta...

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  • Josh Lacey

    Josh Lacey

    Josh Lacey's Time Travel Twins series (Andersen Press) takes its readers back in time to explore different...

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  • Ben Martynoga & Moose Allain

    Ben Martynoga & Moose Allain

    Ben Martynoga is a neuroscientist and science writer. Aftera decade at the forefront of brain research, he...

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  • Louise Forshaw

    Louise Forshaw

    Louise Forshaw's hilarious new graphic novel series, Bad United, stars Hoof the unicorn in a football team with some unusual...

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  • Catherine Bruton

    Catherine Bruton

    Catherine Bruton, author of No Ballet Shoes in Syria, introduces her new book, Bird Boy. Catherine s...

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  • Abi Elphinstone

    Abi Elphinstone

    Abi Elphinstone grew up in Scotland where she spent most of her childhood running wild across the moors, hiding in tree hous...

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  • Leigh Hodgkinson

    Leigh Hodgkinson

    Leigh Hodgkinson joins ReadingZone to introduce her picture books, Martha Maps it Out and Martha Maps it Out in Time...

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  • Nicola Penfold

    Nicola Penfold

    In her books Where the World Turns Wild and its follow-up, When the Wild Calls, Nicola Penfold explores how climate change m...

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  • Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl

    Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl

    Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl is a writer and editor. Her recent books include Beyonce (Knowles-Carter) and Nelson (Mandela), whi...

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  • Carlie Sorosiak

    Carlie Sorosiak

    Carlie Sorosiak writes books about magical summer camps, missing people, and the inner life of dogs.  She grew up in North C...

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  • Anders Sparring & Per Gustavsson

    Anders Sparring & Per Gustavsson

    Anders Sparring writes children’s books and is a screenwriter for many popular television shows.  He is als...

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  • Ash Bond

    Ash Bond

    Ash Bond writes magical stories that have classical myth sprinkled through them like fairy dust. Look out for her debut, <st...

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  • Sarah Crossan

    Sarah Crossan

    Sarah Crossan introduces her powerful new verse novel, Where the Heart Should Be (Bloomsbury YA). Sa...

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  • Nora Dasnes

    Nora Dasnes

    Nora Dåsnes is an author and illustrator. Cross My Heart and Never Lie is her debut as a writer and illustr...

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  • Guy Bass: Hugh Dunnit Mysteries

    Guy Bass: Hugh Dunnit Mysteries

    Guy Bass introduces Hugh Dunnit, 'a self-styled detective who loves nothing more than cracking cases and solving mys...

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  • Alexandra Sheppard

    Alexandra Sheppard

    Alexandra Sheppard introduces her latest novel, Alyssa and the Spell Garden, exploring community, teamwork...

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  • Catherine Cawthorne & Sara Ogilvie

    Catherine Cawthorne & Sara Ogilvie

    Catherine Cawthorne's Big Bad Wolf Investigates explores the science behind our favourite fairy tales... Gr...

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  • Katie and Kevin Tsang

    Katie and Kevin Tsang

    Authors Katie and Kevin Tsang introduce their new Dragon Force adventure, Devourer's Attack, in this special ReadingZone fea...

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  • Catherine Doyle

    Catherine Doyle

    Catherine Doyle introduces her new swashbuckling tale, Pirates of Darksea!   Catherine grew up beside the Atlantic in the we...

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  • Guy Bass & Pete Williamson

    Guy Bass & Pete Williamson

    The bestselling Stitch Head series is getting a new look - as a graphic novel!  Author Guy Bass and illustr...

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  • Ginny Myers Sain

    Ginny Myers Sain

    Ginny Myers Sain tells ReadingZone what inspired her latest page-turning YA novel, One Last Breath. ...

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  • Justin Somper

    Justin Somper

    Justin Somper, author of Vampirates, introduces his brand new pirate series, Pirate Academy! Justin grew up in St Alb...

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  • Jarvis

    Jarvis

    Jarvis, author of The Boy With Flowers In His Hair, shares his new picture book, Thank You, with ReadingZone. Jarvis's earli...

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  • James Nicol

    James Nicol

    James Nicol, author of The Apprentice Witch series, tells ReadingZone about his new eco fantasy, The Cloud Thief. Jam...

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  • Piu DasGupta

    Piu DasGupta

    Our debut author of the month Piu DasGupta introduces her novel, Secrets of the Snakestone...

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  • Katrina Charman & Guilherme Karstenn

    Katrina Charman & Guilherme Karstenn

    Katrina Charman and Guilherme Karsten tell ReadingZone how a traditional children's song i...

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  • James Carter

    James Carter

    James Carter introduces Once Upon a Big Idea, the latest in his poetry books exploring ideas and science ab...

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  • Jenny McLachlan

    Jenny McLachlan

    Stink the troublesome fairy is back in Fairy Vs Wizard  Jenny McLachlan's first b...

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  • Sylvia Bishop

    Sylvia Bishop

    Sylvia Bishop's new book, On Silver Tides, is her first novel for teenagers. Sylvia spent an entire childhood reading fictio...

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  • Sufiya Ahmed & Hazem Asif

    Sufiya Ahmed & Hazem Asif

    Sufiya Ahmed and illustrator Hazem Asif introduce their new picture book, The Best Eid Ever.      </p...

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  • Alex Bell

    Alex Bell

    Alex Bell introduces her magical new middle grade novel, The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts, the latest in a range of  nove...

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  • Tim Hall

    Tim Hall

    The inspiration to write about Robin Hood struck Tim Hall while trekking in the 'primal and dangerous landscape' of the Amaz...

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  • Matty Long

    Matty Long

    Matty Long creates picture books including Who Rules the Rockpool?, the Super Happy Magic Forest series, Turbo Bunnies, and...

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  • Kelly McCaughrain

    Kelly McCaughrain

    Kelly McCaughrain lives in Belfast where she works with disabled students in further education. Her debut novel, Fly...

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  • Krystal Sutherland

    Krystal Sutherland

    Krystal Sutherland is the New York Times bestselling author of House of Hollow, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares a...

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  • Anna Wilson & Harry Woodgate

    Anna Wilson & Harry Woodgate

    Anna Wilson lives in Cornwall in the UK with her husband and dog, cat, ducks and a tortoise called Hercules...

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  • Ruth Doyle & Alexandra Finkeldey

    Ruth Doyle & Alexandra Finkeldey

    Ruth Doyle's new picture book, A Horse Called Now, explores children's worries with the help of a horse, No...

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  • Tracey Corderoy & Steven Lenton

    Tracey Corderoy & Steven Lenton

    Tracey Corderoy grew up in South Wales, on a council estate firmly sandwiched between the steel and chemica...

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  • John Kane

    John Kane

    When John Kane was younger, he liked to make up stories for his little sister. Jimmy and Bear, who appeared in them, are sti...

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  • Rachel Greener

    Rachel Greener

    Rachel Greener is a children's books editor from London who has written and edited fiction, non-fiction and...

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  • Marcus Sedgwick

    Marcus Sedgwick

    Marcus Sedgwick was a full time author who died unexpectedly in November 2022. He was 54.  He grew up in Kent and had been l...

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  • William Hussey

    William Hussey

    William Hussey's The Outrage, set in a future England that has become a fascist state, is published this mo...

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  • Pippa Curnick

    Pippa Curnick

    Pippa Curnick has always written her own stories and loves illustrating, so it's no surprise that she has now written and il...

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  • Jessie James & Tamara Anegon

    Jessie James & Tamara Anegon

    Tamara Anegon attained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2008. Following this, she studied for a masters d...

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  • William Goldsmith

    William Goldsmith

    William Goldsmith is a British writer and illustrator. Published by Jonathan Cape, his gra...

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  • Tom Nicoll

    Tom Nicoll

    Tom Nicoll has been writing since school, where he enjoyed penning essays that were as silly as possible. Tom lives near Edi...

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