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
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
John Dougherty and Thomas Docherty explore loss in their picture books, The Hare-Shaped Hole and The Bear-Shaped Hol...
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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
Tamsin Mori talks to ReadingZone about gargoyles, myths and her latest magical Gargoyles adventure, The Watcher</str...
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Rachel Chivers Khoo
Rachel Chivers Khoo introduces her magical new series, The Finders of Silverthorn Forest: The Lost Treasure,</strong...
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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
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 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
Owning It is a new anthology by disabled authors, who share their stories and experiences of growing up disabled.
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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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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
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, 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 tells ReadingZone how his own daughters helped inspire his latest picture book, Moon Girl.<...
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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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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'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's new picture book, The Rabbit, the Cloud and the Rainy Day, explores how children learn to manage bi...
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Jason Rohan
Jason Rohan returns to his action-adventure S.T.E.A.L.T.H. series with a new mission, Storm Rising (Nosy Cr...
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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
Award-winning author Katya Balen and illustrator Gill Smith talk to ReadingZone about their new series for...
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Ravena Guron introduces her new YA thriller, Mondays Are Murder
Ravena Guron is the bestselling author of Young Adult thrillers: <a href="/books/this-book...
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Sara Barnard
Sara Barnard's This Song is About Us is a powerful YA novel exploring first love, fame and social media.</p...
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Padraig Kenny
Padraig Kenny, our Author of the Month, tells ReadingZone what inspired his new dystopian adventure, After....
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Alexia Casale's YA novel, Not That Kind of Hero
Alexia Casale introduces her new YA novel, Not That Kind of Hero, a story about following your dreams....
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KL Walther's Ferris Bueller-inspired novel, While We're Young
Find out how the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off helped inspire KL Walther's YA novel, While We're Young, about a grou...
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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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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
Nathanael Lessore grew up in a North Peckham estate as one of eight children to French and Madagascan paren...
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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.
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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
Needy Little Things is Channelle Desamours' debut YA novel. When she's not writing, Channelle is a...
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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 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 tells ReadingZone about her new non-fiction book for younger readers, Six Queens, about the lives of Hen...
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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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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
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
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, 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 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, British-Nigerian author, scholar and award-winning youth practitioner, introduces her new guide for young peop...
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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
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
Discover a wintery world of ice, danger and magic in Ice Apprentices, Jacob North's debut novel.
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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
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
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 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
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 takes a warm and gentle look at friendship and its challenges in his picture book series, F...
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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 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 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 latest murder mystery novel, Murder at Wintertide, is now available and is her most sinister yet.... Fleur...
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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
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 introduces her new picture book, The Search f...
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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
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 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
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 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 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
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 is a Doctor of English Literature and an award-winning children's writer. She has written sev...
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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
Discover a world of mischievous imps in Alex Foulkes's new children's book, Ministry of Mischief!
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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 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 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 and Laura Borio introduce spooks, the joy of bookshops and reading for pleasure, in Griselda Snook's Spe...
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Ged Adamson
Author and illustrator Ged Adamson introduces Be Normal!, a story about accepting our friends for who they are.
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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 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 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 introduces her new series, Bertha and Blink, about a bear inventor and an excitable Robo-bird! </stron...
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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 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 is the creator of the 'Look What I Found...' non-fiction series for young children about...
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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's new historical fiction novel, The Houdini Inheritance, explores the intrigue and mystery of...
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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
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 is a Black mixed-race British debut author and is passionate about Black British and mixed...
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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 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 introduces her new novel, A History of my Weird, which challenges our perceptions of autism.
Chloë was bo...
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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 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's first children's book, Dig Dig Dinosaur, is aimed at sharing her passion about n...
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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
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
Discover ancient gods, mysterious thefts, and new friends in Hannah Messenger and the Gods of Hockwold, Bryony Pearc...
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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 introduces The Boy Who Painted the World, his new picture book that encourages children to embrace creativity...
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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
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 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
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, author of Welcome to Lagos, introduces her first children's book, Mayowa and the Sea of Words</stron...
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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 was born in Rio de Janeiro, and moved to London as a teenager. S...
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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
Carnegie-winning author Manon Steffan Ros tells ReadingZone about her new novel, Me and Aaron Ramsey.
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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'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 is a neuroscientist and science writer. Aftera decade at the forefront of brain research, he...
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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, author of No Ballet Shoes in Syria, introduces her new book, Bird Boy.
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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 joins ReadingZone to introduce her picture books, Martha Maps it Out and Martha Maps it Out in Time...
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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 is a writer and editor. Her recent books include Beyonce (Knowles-Carter) and Nelson (Mandela), whi...
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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 writes children’s books and is a screenwriter for many popular television shows. He is als...
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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 introduces her powerful new verse novel, Where the Heart Should Be (Bloomsbury YA).
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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 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 introduces her latest novel, Alyssa and the Spell Garden, exploring community, teamwork...
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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
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 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
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 tells ReadingZone what inspired her latest page-turning YA novel, One Last Breath.
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Justin Somper
Justin Somper, author of Vampirates, introduces his brand new pirate series, Pirate Academy!
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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, author of The Apprentice Witch series, tells ReadingZone about his new eco fantasy, The Cloud Thief.
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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 and Guilherme Karsten tell ReadingZone how a traditional children's song i...
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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
Stink the troublesome fairy is back in Fairy Vs Wizard Jenny McLachlan's first b...
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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 and illustrator Hazem Asif introduce their new picture book, The Best Eid Ever. </p...
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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
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 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 lives in Belfast where she works with disabled students in further education. Her debut novel, Fly...
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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 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'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 grew up in South Wales, on a council estate firmly sandwiched between the steel and chemica...
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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 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 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'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 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
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 is a British writer and illustrator. Published by Jonathan Cape, his gra...
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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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The Bear-Shaped Hole 
The Dark That Hides Us (Volume 2) 
Not That Kind Of Hero: A heart-stopping teen romance 
I Am Raven 
Clem Fatale Has Been Betrayed 
This Song Is About Us 
What's That Noise? 
Party Animal 
The Bear and the Hare and the Fair 
Oh, Carrots! 
Cafe Chaos: My Family Is Not a Piece of Cake 
School of Doom 
Come What May 
When the World Tips Over 
Ghostlines 
Anne of Green Gables 
The Falling Boy 
The Colour of the Sky 
Once I Was a Tree 
University of Cambridge: Teeny Tiny Science: I See a Cloud: A book about the water cycle 
Ajay and the Red-winged Prince 
Land of the Last Wildcat 
Wild: An uplifting celebration of wildness 
National Trust: Wonder World: Earth: The Natural Science of Soil 