My Dragon by Andy Shepherd
In the latest stop on Andy Shepherd's blog tour, the author of The Boy Who Grew Dragons series joins ReadingZone to talk about growing dragons....
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18/01/2021
Creative education
Drama teacher Marcus Dilly believes access to creativity and education enrichment is vital to enable children to engage fully with learning and for their personal development and wellbeing. He tells...
09/12/2020
Encouraging children as poets
We asked Charlotte Hacking, central learning programmes leader at CLPE, to provide some tips for inspiring children to enjoy poetry, and encouraging them to write their own.
29/10/2020
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...
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
