Fact-checking real-life disasters
In this blog author Susan Martineau tells us how she set about fact-checking the information she wanted to use in her new book, Real-Life Disasters (b small publishing), including the catastrophic...
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19/05/2020
Darren Shan on his new series
We asked Darren Shan to tell us how his new series, Archibald Lox, developed. The three Archibold Lox titles are available as ebooks, and Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between Worlds as a FREE...
30/04/2020
Letter to a Head Teacher
ReadingZone is sharing a letter sent by a parent to their child's new secondary school, asking why it doesn't have a professional school librarian - and explaining what the children are missing out...
10/11/2019
Victorian history helped inspire debut novel
Liz Hyder blogs about how a visit to a disused mine inspired her novel, Bearmouth, which draws on research into the working conditions of children in Victorian mines, and which has parallels with...
12/09/2019
Sally Nicholls introduces All Fall Down
All Fall Down, first published seven years ago and republished this month by Andersen Press, explores how one family in 14th century England is affected by the plague that killed nearly half of the...
05/09/2019
Enticing New Readers into the Library
School librarian Shelley Fallows explores what has worked, and what hasn't, in her latest 'books and bribery' blog - or, 'How to entice new readers into the library'!
19/06/2019
From the Library floor
In a new series of blogs, school librarian Shelley Fallows will share her ideas for creating a vibrant library that students will want to use. This month, she explores mental wellbeing.
21/05/2019
AMAZING Blog Tour!
We're thrilled to be part of the Blog Tour for Amazing, the new picture book from Steve Antony, which puts a child who is disabled at the centre of the story, and on the front cover. Here, he tells...
29/01/2019
